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They're in their 60's, finally convinced them.

They say things like "This is the same..."

and I'm like

"Ya because that's Firefox, the only program you use..."

"What was Windows even doing for us?"

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Libreoffice has an option for a ribbon user interface. It makes it nearly identical to Microsoft's stuff that I grew up on.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Onlyoffice is a near clone of MS office though, so there's basically no friction in adopting it unless you're heavily into advanced Excel features.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

From my experience, OnlyOffice provides better compatability with MS Office-files (that is, more so than LibreOffice). However, having used Powerpoint quite a lot in my professional life, and using OnlyOffice Presentation to make a slide deck now, that is an area where I unfortunately find it severely lacking. There's also the issue about their license - I am not all that familiar with it, but apparently they are not as free and open as they claim to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What ever happened to Open Office? That used to be the defacto replacement to Microsoft Office. I haven't used office tools on a personal computer in over a decade though, so I'm very out of the loop there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LibreOffice is as far as I know a continuation of OpenOffice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks. Can that still be installed on Windows systems?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Holy shit that's a blast from the past lmao.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

For historical info - Oracle bought OpenOffice and started to close it down, so all the developers that worked on it forked it into LibreOffice

Oracle has since given OpenOffice to an open source group, Apache, but the main development still happens on LibreOffice

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If it was for me, I would support a FOSS alternative but, parents didn't enjoy the Libreoffice experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've never really liked the UI in LibreOffice either. It's usable, but always felt clunky to me. And it feels so heavy and ponderous to use. That says something from someone who wears the sackcloth and ashes of FreeCAD.......

I did use OnlyOffice for a bit and I thought it was better for my needs than LibreOffice. But it was still overkill my current needs. So now I'm down to just AbbyWord and Gnumeric since I only need the odd document and simple spreadsheet.

Edit for missed word

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I tried to find this, but had big issues finding where to toggle this. I find the default UI very cluttered and confusing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

View > user interface > tabbed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I can't actually find the View-menu (or any other of the usual File, Edit etc.). Maybe it doesn't play nice on KDE under Wayland? In LibreOffice Impress I can right click the gutter and click "More" and bring up what is called "Options - LibreOffice". Here I can find "Peronsalization" which allows me to select different themes (to no effect) and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a button labeled "User Interface" in one of the alt menus that I don't remember the name of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's definitely it! Thanks for clarifying!