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jeremy 12-21-2011 03:25 PM

Office Suite of the Year
 
Which Office suite do you prefer?

--jeremy

batfastad 12-28-2011 03:15 PM

LibreOffice.
Had been waiting for years for stability improvements to the pivot table functionality in OpenOffice. Improved within 2 months in LibreOffice :)

Arelatensis 12-28-2011 07:19 PM

Libre Office works good, but not perfect with Russian and other Cyrillic based languages. OOO does it now better.

chrisretusn 12-28-2011 07:33 PM

LibreOffice, it just works.

sycamorex 12-29-2011 05:00 AM

Libreoffice - it's not perfect though.

bathory 12-30-2011 12:58 AM

Another one for LibreOffice (thanks to oracle...)

lpallard 12-30-2011 09:35 AM

Libreoffice ftw!

Openoffice is too buggy and slow..

OOo Impress takes nearly 6 times more system resources as LibreOffice Impress does.. For the same presentation.. I had very limited success putting together a presentation with more than 10 slides with graphics and pictures. Calc and Writer are better but overall I prefer LO.

lewnidas_ 12-30-2011 10:10 AM

Libreoffice for ever....!!!!! :)

raju.mopidevi 12-31-2011 07:58 AM

Open office, Using it for a long time !

EricTRA 12-31-2011 08:19 AM

Hi,

LibreOffice here too.

Kind regards,

Eric

hasanatizaz 12-31-2011 12:20 PM

i use open office and to be honest i never bothered trying any of the rest, however i will try which ever office suit gets the highest count.

anticapitalista 12-31-2011 01:36 PM

Abiword and gnumeric for low powered boxes.

gilead 12-31-2011 02:48 PM

I switched from Open Office to Libre a little while back - it's good!

trillobyte 12-31-2011 03:31 PM

I'm voting for LibreOffice.

Mr. Alex 12-31-2011 04:17 PM

OpenOffice.org for me. Didn't like LibreOffice.

ButterflyMelissa 01-01-2012 02:11 PM

...is OpenOffice still out there???

sycamorex 01-01-2012 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thor_2.0 (Post 4563254)
...is OpenOffice still out there???

It is.
http://www.openoffice.org/

SecretCode 01-01-2012 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Alex (Post 4562767)
OpenOffice.org for me. Didn't like LibreOffice.

Why not, if you don't mind typing a few more words?

I'm interested in any thoughts that OOo is better than LibO. I haven't heard of any reasons. And I will be very interested if anyone votes for Go-oo as better than LibO, because LibO really supersedes that.

polpak 01-01-2012 04:14 PM

Long time using OpenOffice, which then upgraded/updated into LibreOffice, never bothered trying any of the rest.

When it ain't broke don't fix it !


OK few hiccups when change occurred all soon enough resolved, with no problems for what am doing. Admit doing a lot less now than previously.


Earlier used LibreOffice with MySQL a lot, though not recently, almost miss it.

ButterflyMelissa 01-01-2012 04:27 PM

Thanks sycamorex...my distro retired it in favor of libre, always wonderd why (somehow)...not that libre is bad, but I liked OpenOffice.
The downloads are RPM or DEB only :( - I need a simple tarball. Maybe I'll compile the thing from scratch..., eh, why not, this IS Linux, after all...

Mr. Alex 01-02-2012 12:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SecretCode (Post 4563341)
Why not, if you don't mind typing a few more words?

Well, not that it has some definite reason, it's just this overall experience of using them both. Libre feels differently. It's less stable, less conservative. I am very conservative. Some time ago I saw a news about Libre that they are planning on changing graphics layout to something more modern which if true will make me dislike Libre even more.

Timothy Miller 01-02-2012 01:29 AM

I vote none of the above. OOO and Libreoffice are slow and clunky. Gnome office isn't functional enough for my needs. Koffice is large, clunky, slow, AND ugly. Go-oo and Lotus Symphony aren't in almost any repositories, so just more hassle than they're worth IMO.

SecretCode 01-02-2012 02:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Alex (Post 4563557)
Well, not that it has some definite reason, it's just this overall experience of using them both. Libre feels differently. It's less stable, less conservative. I am very conservative. Some time ago I saw a news about Libre that they are planning on changing graphics layout to something more modern which if true will make me dislike Libre even more.

I can get the changing graphics aspect. And I wonder if they would be well advised to introduce some kind of theme support - with at least a "conservative OOo style" theme! :)

Oddly, I find LibO more stable. And it incorporated a number of fixes and improvements almost straight away that weren't even in Go-oo. I get a very strong feeling that the LibreOffice dev community is building good things and the OpenOffice developers are not.

prushik 01-02-2012 05:39 AM

What about Siag?
Its super lightweight, and light on extraneous features, also comes with a file manager. It's very nice on small systems, even got it running on a pure darwin machine.

landroni 01-02-2012 06:38 AM

The 'Office Suite' category doesn't allow to choose 'LyX', a document editor, which is an excellent programme with results far superior to those of LibreOffice.

jeremy 01-02-2012 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by prushik (Post 4563659)
What about Siag?
Its super lightweight, and light on extraneous features, also comes with a file manager. It's very nice on small systems, even got it running on a pure darwin machine.

Siag was removed a few years back after it got 0 votes multiple times. It also appears there hasn't been a new release since around 2006.

--jeremy

Timothy Miller 01-02-2012 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy (Post 4563839)
Siag was removed a few years back after it got 0 votes multiple times. It also appears there hasn't been a new release since around 2006.

--jeremy

Yeah, I wish someone would come up with a modern equivalent to it. Something not based on java, but has all the features.

decodedthought 01-02-2012 07:12 PM

LIbre Office :)

landroni 01-03-2012 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by landroni (Post 4563686)
The 'Office Suite' category doesn't allow to choose 'LyX', a document editor, which is an excellent programme with results far superior to those of LibreOffice.

To clarify. Please add a 'Word Processor' or 'Document Processor' category, similar to the DE/WM separation. In this category you could include LibreOffice Writer, AbiWord, Ted, TeXmacs, LyX, etc. Personally I find it very frustrating that I cannot vote for LyX in any of the current polls.

jeremy 01-03-2012 10:49 AM

We used to break the suites out into individual categories and stopped a few years back. We have no plans to move back in that direction at this time.

--jeremy

bvpainter 01-03-2012 11:14 AM

Libre Office

brashley46 01-03-2012 05:18 PM

I'm using LibreOffice to edit my chorus' weekly internal newsletter ... works great.

novabrahm 01-03-2012 05:38 PM

LibreOffice
 
Clear winner. Stock OpenOffice is nice too.

metalaarif 01-03-2012 08:05 PM

I'm sorry to say but libre office is horrible, I'm sorry I should not say like but its really bad...the best was openoffice and others can't be better than openoffice

Kruptnick 01-04-2012 10:03 AM

Using Abiword (not an office thing) and OpenOffice.org.
OpenOffice.org for making zines, mostly. I think I'll move to Scribus (not an office suite) for that when the zine I'm/we're working on is published, for next issue. Didn't try LibreOffice... Well, in fact I did, but not long enough to build an opinion! Though I voted LibreOffice by error :/

DavidMcCann 01-04-2012 12:03 PM

Official statement: "Going forward, the Go-oo project will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice." So that's the end of that.

Two missing candidates: Calligra and Siag (I love the name Pathetic Writer!)

tallship 01-04-2012 05:15 PM

Yeah, StarOffice was good stuff, when it was what it was. Sun improved upon that with the transmutation into OpenOffice - a name I think most of us would like to use for LibreOffice but Larry Ellison hasn't turned over the name [yet].

OxygenOffice was a nice augmentation to OOo, which had relatively stalled and become stagnate even before EllisonCo bought Sun and killed it off (Say what you want but OOo is dead IMNSHO), but now LibreOffice is just the way to go - even if we often still make the mistake of referring to it as OpenOffice.

Yah, besides Koffice which has it's uses and supporters, my choice was LibreOffice.

LibreOffice

LibreOffice

LibreOffice

I hope that helps :)

Kindest regards,

.

Blaazen 01-04-2012 06:19 PM

LibreOffice (I need one post to fully activate my profile)

gfmtech05 01-05-2012 11:31 AM

LibreOffice. I like OpenOffice too and it works all the same but I'm not as big of an "Office" guy anymore.

soti 01-05-2012 02:44 PM

LibreOffice, though lately it is quite slow, even on my quite powerful machine. I read about some jre issues, but I didn't solve my problem yet.

gotfw 01-06-2012 01:50 PM

My use of 'Office Suites' pretty much boils down to something to read/edit documents created by lamers using M$ Orifice. OO.org is a dead end thanks to Scarey Larry and he had to give to ASF in last ditch effort to save face. Meanwhile, mega developer talent has defected to the new and truly free king, LibreOffice, which gets my vote.

camuflage 01-07-2012 08:47 AM

All the active office suites that are made or usable in linux:

Calligra Suite
Feng Office Community Edition
Google Apps
IBM Lotus Symphony
KOffice
LibreOffice
OpenOffice.org
ShareOffice
SoftMaker Office
StarOffice
ThinkFree Office
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
ZCubes
Zoho

dragoon_jas 01-07-2012 07:25 PM

Libre Office the best!

cowlitzron 01-10-2012 02:50 AM

I voted for Openoffice.org, because it worked well. However, I currently have Lyx which is the longest running Word Processor on Linux which works on multiple desktops, paired with Gnumeric. Perhaps a combo of Lyx, Gnumeric, and Gimp could be referred to as "Classic Office".

gtwister09 01-10-2012 05:58 AM

LibreOffice here as well.

brianL 01-10-2012 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidMcCann (Post 4565992)
Calligra and Siag (I love the name Pathetic Writer!)

That must be what Dan Brown uses. :)

Sailor Tom 01-14-2012 06:46 AM

KOffice / Calligra has made some great improvements relatively recently. +1 vote!

noah_vale 01-17-2012 06:13 AM

LibreOffice covers all my office requirements.

ps_sabu 01-17-2012 12:24 PM

Libre office for me

xev 01-19-2012 08:11 AM

LibreOffice, thanks.


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