• JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honest question. In the era of collaborative document editing on browser-based platforms, who is using this software and what are they using it for? I work with documents for my job and it’s been literally decades since I used a local standalone word processor.

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        1 year ago

        Idunno, that might be approaching “one day of patchy electricity can change how you view computers vs mechanical typewriters”. Here people would likely use their mobile internet, especially if the company is paying their phone bill.

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      1 year ago

      I need local font support far, far more often than I need collaborative editing. Plus, call me old, but I don’t like storing everything on a server in Virginia for Google to read.

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      I’m using it the same way I’d be using office.

      The collaborative document editing doesn’t apply to me.

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      I almost never use it, but if LibreOffice can come in handy a few times a year, why not at least keep it installed?

      A lot of stuff is indeed browser based, so I probably spend more time in Firefox than in my code editor and terminal.

      But LibreOffice is welcome to live on 0.1% of my disk space!

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        Probably not because it would need to be an off-the-peg solution with support included for my bosses to even begin to consider it. But I have heard of Collabora and I know it’s decent.

        More in the running would be a cloud solution from the amazing Framasoft, including Framapad

        None of this is to disparage LibreOffice, which apparently offers value to many people and that’s great.

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        Onlyoffice by default comes as standalone local application suite and is not based on LibreOffice. It looks more modern/intuitive, but is less powerfull and feature rich than LibreOffice.