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[–] sunth1ef@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

LibreOffice has been working "fine" for my DeGoogled personal life.

Work is heavily Googled still (and not entirely up to me), but I've practiced a hard barrier between work tech and personal tech for years now. In case I can sway any colleagues: Anybody feeling like any of these alternatives would be ready for a small or larger team to jump over to that routinely collaborates on spreadsheets, documents and slides?

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Onlyoffice should be mentioned. Has a mobile app too, though it absolutely sucks ass. It's fine for viewing, but it just crashes more often than you can save your document (spreadsheets at least)

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

It is mentioned in the bottom that only Western hegemony open source is mentioned.

OnlyOffice is so much better too.

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

I've been using LibreOffice and its predecessor, OpenOffice, for yeeeeeears. Maybe 20 years? I have no complaints.

[–] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 8 points 8 hours ago

I don't know where these "guides" come from, seen several of them pop up. It is like a guide to mostly paid, corporate alternatives, not necessarily open source. There are lots of open source alternatives and configurations to get away from all of google's services. Ksuite? please, no.

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Any labels for self-hostable? I'd rather keep my documents on my own hardware while also collaborating.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Nextcloud has a collabora integration

[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

NextCloud's built in office is powered by Libre Office and they have an official Only Office integration as well.

Also missing are WPS Office and Only Office.

[–] ZycroNeXuS@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 hours ago

And it's free to host your own instance of Collabora Online Development Edition.

[–] figurine8051@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

Mobioffice has a wide variety of trackers in it—30 trackers according to Exodus.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

LibreOffice + self-hosted next cloud = ???

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I'm thinking of switching to mailbox.org since I'm a slut for one stop solutions and I'm in it deep with google docs/calendar/sheets/email. Anyone here used it and have thoughts? I like the idea of custom email domain idk if ksuite does that too, but I like the look of ksuite's collaborative docs setup and large cloud storage

[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 2 points 11 hours ago

since I moved to Linux back in August I've been using libreoffice. the only issue I have had is the default paper size being whatever it is Europeans use (printers full of eagle paper got mad) but after changing it I had no issues.