Office Suite of the Year
 

Which Office suite do you prefer?

--jeremy

Kingston WPS Office is beautiful, easy to use, and has better compatibility. I use it on Android too.

I use FreeOffice mostly.

I almost never use one except when adding and testing it for a user within my sphere - in which case it is always LibreOffice.

FreeOffice has been added.

--jeremy

I like Calligra but I use LibreOffice the most.

I think I will go for Open Office, I don't know why I don't seem to like Libre Office, used Calligra but not used to it. ;)

Libreoffice

If I install one, it is LibreOffice.

Where is Google Docs? It's literally all I use for stuff that is not code (Intellij IDEA ftw!).

Our "org" uses google docs quite a bit. There is an extension you can add to Open/Libre Office that puts file import/export directly to your google docs from the toolbar. I think its something like oo2gg so a quick search should find it. Of course our staff who run Windows have no clue how easy it could be. So, they still use a browser. I did inform them, but they never listen.

I still cannot fathom how any non-profit would willingly contribute to Bill Gates pockets. It's a ...SIN! <gasp!> Ric

I still hope that one of these years there will be a poll where LyX would be a valid choice...

LibreOffice

I'll go with Calligra. Well integrated with KDE, loads up faster than LIbreoffice. If you don't need to make documents in Microsoft formats, Calligra is a good choice to go with.

Where's Microsoft Office on this list???

I have used OOo forever... every few years I check out the others (like distros) but it stays on top for me.

LibreOffice is just as good (if not better) tho! Off topic: Would be nice if we could unvote+

Being a Linux application is a prerequisite for being included in the LQ MCA's.

--jeremy

Abiword and Gnumeric. Also GoogleDocs, but neither appear on the list.

Gnumeric Spreadsheet not office suite, good mention tho. :)

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is what I use and like it.

Meh... just use Emacs....

Curious though, what do Free Office and WPS, in their crippled freeware incantations, bring to the table that LibreOffice and OpenOffice lack?

With OpenOffice.org (now Apache OpenOffice) and see no reason to change now. I tried LibreOffice very briefly and didn't like it nearly as much.

Well, this is kind of lame teaser. Since the difference was reportedly rather dramatic, at least from your assessment, perhaps you could elaborate as to some specifics?

Feedback appreciated!
 

It's always helpful to have constructive feedback about how LibreOffice can be improved. If you figure out what you don't like about the office suite, it would be great to have your help making the next release better!

LibreOffice for me :)Comes with Mint, does what I want it to do. I see no reason to change :)

Maybe not here becasue it soes not run on Linux except for Wine.

I use libreoffice on and off, but for most of my document preparation I use latex (and tikz for graphics).

Planning to install LibreOffice latest version - 14.4; they say there have been tons of improvements :)

http://www.kingsoftstore.com/index

kingsoft office suite

Kingsoft Office is an ambitious clone of Microsoft Office.

:hattip:

Yup, new version just released
 

The latest release is LibreOffice 4.4.0. Read about some of the improvements in the Release Notes.

If you run into any problems, let the QA Team know by filing a bug!

Libre Office is more than most of what is generally needed by a user... And it can follow Micro$oft on their needlessly endless standard change path.

LibreOffice ... excellent office suite!

Marc

LibreOffice. What else?

Moved from LO to Kingston WPS Office recently. While not near as robust as LO, it meets my needs and I've found it to be quicker, lighter and more stable.

this thread is not really nice for the poll.

there are many office suites missing. There are no single terminal office suites, although there are many ones.

Why not even wine + ms office?

This is supposed to be a poll for applications that work specifically on Linux. If Wine + "Foo" is included, then all the polls will fall apart, since you could run anything from Windows in Wine...

And if some Linux application is missing, you could tell it so Jeremy can include it.

what about abiword and co?

what about other office linux suites?

what about terminal apps?

(for wine, maybe, ok)
However Wine + MS-Office is certainly already far superior than any linux office suites.
This is why it is not better to introduce wine.

Abiword is a word processor, not an office suite, so is not suitable for this category.

If you give specific examples I'm happy to see if they are eligible for the category and add them if they are.

--jeremy

Libre Office

Abiword was one of the suite.
I dont remember the names of the apps. I will look later.



http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...-wordprocessor

Within 10-15 years, the more the time goes, the more people code in various languages, C++, Python,... and the code becomes a real mess mixing all those languages.

Libreoffice is bloated and slow.
This is really fantastic ;)

One nice thing. You may use:
https://office.live.com/start/Excel.aspx?omkt=en-US

For gnome, simple slides.
http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2010/0...ons-for-gnome/
http://lwn.net/Articles/386321/


years ago, there was a suite that could be promising but it was abandoned: SIAG, Gnumeric,...
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-2.3jwm.jpg

For vectors, you can you use tkpaint. it is not slow such as inkscape.

People use wine and adobe illustrator. It works flawlessly and it is still even faster than inkscape running on linux. Tell me why?


wine + msoffice works, it is clean and it is even nicer and faster than libreoffice.
You can work with colleagues on same docs without troubles....


Look for instance how awesome is XPAINT.
But no-one never talk about it ...


What about LaTex or TeX?
You can make awesome slides with TeX, really. No need of beamer even.
Plain TeX can really make awesome slides and documents.
If you work on your code, you can make much much nicer pdf that looks as good or even better as powerpoint.
This one is a regular one (actually not very nice), which can be made much nicer.
https://tug.org/tug2014/slides/allen-demo.pdf


TeX/Latex/... shall be too into the list. For spreadsheet, well,... not really.

Someone mentioned about it above, to adapt the list. But ... the list is still unchanged.
It is better not to worry too much about the thread (or about my post which isn't towards heavy office suites), since the list is not going to be updated by the author of the thread, as noticed above, unfortunately.
I wish that the poll of the thread would be really complete.



In my opinion, people shall NOT need a Supercomputer to run Office applications.
http://www.itworld.com/article/27077...ing-linux.html

A little observation Jeremy, OpenOffice.org doesn't exist anymore. They call it Apache OpenOffice these days.

The name has been updated.

--jeremy

Although there is really no actual "GNOME Office" anymore, in older times the AbiWord + GNOME-DB + Gnumeric combination was considered as such. I think it would be wise to include this combo as an option, since so many distros include them as the default Office Suite of choice, and they are very good applications indeed.

Libreoffice
all the way!

It's gotta be LibreOffice... come on.

Please add terminal office suite
(eg. wordgrinder, vim, tex,...)