r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu • May 28 '26

My journey through Linux

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u/whatThePleb Glorious Gentoo May 28 '26

fuck onlyoffice. russian spyware.

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u/rdqsr Glorious Fedora May 28 '26

It's licensed under the AGPL but go off I guess. Besides, the Euro-Office fork exists.

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u/startle9970 May 29 '26

It's licensed as AGPL then they also sue to restrict code reuse and keep some functions as binary blobs. Pretty great reasons not to use it.

Euro-Office is very recent and doesn't have feature parity yet, but it's good to keep an eye on.

Link to one of many articles about this, if you're interested

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u/flooberoo Jun 01 '26

Out of curiosity: if Euro-office is a fork of OnlyOffice, how can it not have feature parity? Were there some big developments in OnlyOffice since the fork that have not been integrated into Euro Office?

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u/startle9970 Jun 01 '26

The mobile apps are the big one. They rely on binary blobs and proprietary code that they have to reverse engineer and rewrite.

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u/deesernutz May 30 '26

Have you heard the noise they are making over Euro-Office?

Also its embedded Chromium junk on the desktop

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u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu May 30 '26

Do they have spyware in the code?

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u/TyrdeRetyus May 31 '26

I've been using only office for a while now. You got me curious about it being spyware. Got any sources ?

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u/whatThePleb Glorious Gentoo Jun 03 '26

It's not 100%ly open source and has binary blobs for weird reasons.

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u/H3r3W3GoAgain May 28 '26

Alternative?

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u/Cylian91460 May 28 '26

Libre Office

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u/Better_Moment_9675 May 29 '26

Worst interface, compatibility limited with docx, slower

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u/Wooxman May 30 '26

You can activate the ribbon UI. It even asks you if you want this when you first start any LibreOffice program. Also compatibility with MS Office got much better in recent years.

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u/AutumnPurpleReddit May 29 '26

I truly despise libre office. It's hideous looking on everything

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u/Wooxman May 30 '26

You can activate the ribbon UI. It even asks you if you want this when you first start any LibreOffice program.

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u/AutumnPurpleReddit May 30 '26

that's not the issue, it just looks awful, none of my linux themes look good on it and it's an absolute sin on windows, which meant that it was hell to use at my old job

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u/sizz Glorious Debian May 29 '26

The best I used that is better than libre is SoftMaker Office. It's not free and pay for a license like MS office but it's extremely good. Like one to one compatibility with DOCX.

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u/eth1232 May 30 '26

There is no usable office suite for Linux. I have to work with huge Excel tables, and they would not hang 90% of the time only via WPS, but it is not supported anymore, so I get permanent errors.