I've been testing it and it seems like a good solution for general productivity and a great option for people migrating from MS. It's open source and cross-platform, but I just don't see it in any conversations about office software.

For me, it's so far leagues beyond LibreOffice. I really need something that works on my phone and syncs across devices, and allows collaboration. OnlyOffice seems to fit the bill. It's also far more intuitive to my preferences.

I am sure that some people wouldn't like the fact that the interface runs as a webapp, or use of Java, but it's strange to me that it's not usually even in the conversation.

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, is it a web app or does it use Java? Those are two distinctly different technologies.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't really know anything about computers, and it seems like I'm not the only one who finds the entire app suite a little confusing. The Github says this, which is where I got the understanding that it involves both:

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors contain the following components:

desktop-apps - the frontend for ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors which is used to build the program interface for the operating system selected.

desktop-sdk - SDK which is a core part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors.

core - server core components for ONLYOFFICE Document Server which is a part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors and is used to enable the conversion between the most popular office document formats (DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, PDF, HTML, EPUB, XPS, DjVu, XLS, XLSX, ODS, CSV, PPT, PPTX, ODP).

sdkjs - JavaScript SDK for the ONLYOFFICE Document Server which is a part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors and contains API for all the included components client-side interaction.

web-apps - the frontend for ONLYOFFICE Document Server which is a part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors that allows the user to create, edit, save and export text, spreadsheet and presentation documents using the common interface of a document editor.

dictionaries - the dictionaries of various languages used for spellchecking in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors.

Hopefully you can explain what that means.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, I think it uses JavaScript, not Java, so yeah it looks like it is a web app.

It's quite impressive IMO that you are into open-source software even though you say you don't know anything about computers, I'd say that counts as something, plus you know about Lemmy too. We all love open-source software here :)

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Well, "nothing" may be a slight exaggeration. But I know little enough that wasn't aware Java and JavaScript are two different things.

Open source requires SOME understanding of computers, but really, you don't have to understand economic theory to see the benefits of joining a union. I don't know much, but I value privacy and I am old enough to see how tragically profiteers have broken the web. People smarter than me assure me that Open Source tends to be more secure, more private, harder to abuse and that all seems like a good idea to me. I've helped out with lots of Community contribution projects like Wikipedia, Open Street Maps, Open Clip Art, etc. and I see the good that Creative commons does, which is a philosophical cousin of Open Source. So, yeah, I understand Open source insofar as I understand its importance, even though I really don't know enough to contribute much other than cheerleading :)