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I try using Org-mode/Latex with pandoc,, but end up using only Office for docx and PowerPoint.

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

WPS Office for editing office files. LaTeX for writing articles. Emacs for everything else.

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

Honestly, I rarely use office suites these days. Mostly either wiki pages or Notion. I still use Google Docs for collaboration sometimes and LibreOffice for the rare docx or odt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • LaTeX using Tectonic -X

  • Markdown

  • Editor: nvim

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

Mostly only need a spreadsheet. I will use anything at my disposal, but mostly Calc (LibreOffice).

Most of my text editing is markdown or actual code, so that is just VSCode or my IDE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Markdown with neovim for gits.

LibreOffice for spreadsheets and presentations.

LaTeX for publications and moderncv template for resume.

Etherpad for collaboration.

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

I've had a hell of a bad time using Libre for presentations. Has it gotten better lately?

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

I work mostly with texts, but if I need something office-y, I go old school: gnumeric for spreadsheets and abiword for documents

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

I personally have found SoftMaker's TextMaker to be best word processor, with a backup/fallback being Libre Office. It's got a great UI, good features, and overall is just a good experience. Honestly, the whole office suite is quite good. I definitely like it better than WPS. It's also nice that you can just purchase a one-time license and have support for 3 years, for a fairly reasonable price, tbh. Yearly subscriptions are also available if you prefer that route.

There is a free (as in beer) version, called FreeOffice you can try. It's what convinced me the full version was worth it. My backup is LibreOffice, and while some years ago the difference was stark, LibreOffice has come a long way in terms of support and feature set. So it's definitely come a long way.

I would advise you to consider switching to LibreOffice from Open Office, if nothing else though. Open Office has not received a major update release in close to a decade now, and LibreOffice is truly the successor to it, as it's actually forked from it.

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

LibreOffice, since I'm a light user and it's usually available.

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

OnlyOffice. FOSS, great MS compatibility, more modern than LibreOffice, local apps and runs in web with Nextcloud with great document collaboration options.

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

Usually OnlyOffice though I keep LibreOffice installed as a backup as sometimes I've had weird compatibility issues with the former (very few and far between but still)

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

I was using LibreOffice on everything but for some unknown reason it just flat out stopped working on my machine so I installed OnlyOffice and honestly I much prefer it.

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

MS Office at work because they pay for it and it's our platform for almost everything. LibreOffice at home and for other personal stuff.

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

Onlyoffice and LibreOffice depending on what I do.
Onlyoffice is an absolutely amazing online editor if you integrate it with Nextcloud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are any office suites as good as MS Office for referencing and citations? One of the things that keeps my wife stuck on windows/macOS is the need for a good Office suite for university

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

I use Rstudio with Quarto (really nice) and libreoffice

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

For my own use, I tend to go markdown for everything. Then it becomes either a blog post with hugo, or an email with markdown here (a browser and mail client extension to turn your markdown into html in a rich text field, or in an email), or a html doc.

For work, when I have no choice, I use office365. It sucks though, it's not even fully compatible with using the desktop versions of the apps (size of elements, positioning will always be slightly off)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Usually a Harvie&Hudson. I just go for a more casual Sexton on Fridays.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OnlyOffice coupled with a Nextcloud instance. I can't stand the dated UI of LibreOffice/OpenOffice.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

99.9% of customers use Microsoft Office, so I have QEMU windows for this purpose.
For own work/at home I find I mostly get by with textfiles/markdown and odd LibreOffice spreadsheet.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why QEMU? I've found it's performance an compatibility quite lacking compared to VirtualBox, or since you're using it anyway to run nonfree software: commercial products like VMware Player/Workstation

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