Ask HN: Open-source office suite other than LibreOffice?

#1

Post by bauripalash » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 4:14 AM UTC

Are there any open source alternative to Microsoft Office excluding Libreoffice or any other apache open office forks?

Re: Ask HN: Open-source office suite other than LibreOffice?

#2

Post by smoldesu » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 4:20 AM UTC

Yes. I will warn you though, nearly all of them are pretty bad. Having tried them all, I always come crawling back to Libreoffice. YMMV, but I never found any of them usable.

Re: Ask HN: Open-source office suite other than LibreOffice?

#3

Post by bauripalash » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 4:58 AM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #2

Yes. I will warn you though, nearly all of them are pretty bad. Having tried them all , I always come crawling back to Libreoffice. YMMV, but I never found any of them usable.

I tried onlyoffice[^1] once. Its interface seems nice to me, but unfortunately it can't handle bengali[^2] unicode characters, which I use a lot.

[1]: https://www.onlyoffice.com/

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language

Re: Ask HN: Open-source office suite other than LibreOffice?

#4

Post by khedoros1 » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 5:03 AM UTC

Calligra, which came from KOffice, I guess?

Re: Ask HN: Open-source office suite other than LibreOffice?

#5

Post by eternityforest » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 10:10 AM UTC

There are many, but I'm not aware of any I would want to use.

Having never used any commercial ones since I was a kid in the early 2000s, LibreOffice seems pretty much perfect to me, although I wish they would add a cross platform notes solution like Obsidian(Nobody in FOSS has one I like as much as the proprietary options, so maybe they could figure it out!

Most LibreOffice alternatives seem to focus on being lightweight, but... we've got SSDs now, and they usually compromise a lot on UI.

Some of the other ones do seem to be catching up though, and might be worth taking another look at.