public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird)

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/26878388

LibreOffice is a great alternative for 99% of people, but there is that 1% of people who is gonna be disappointment. This is a great step though.

The only thing preventing me from full adoption in it is the lack of being able to convert to table like in excel. I’ve moved to it for my word processing. But I can’t shake excel because I use that feature almost every time I use the program.

After that i just need to find replacements for OneNote and OneDrive and I’ll finally be free.

Replace OneDrive with a NAS. You can roll your own with something like OpenMediaVault.

Replace OneNote with Obsidian. It’s not FOSS, but it’s free and cross platform.

If I could afford a NAS I would have done so by now. But I can’t afford the drives. Most other hosted solutions either don’t offer the capacity I am after, or lack other features that I want from a cloud storage.

I didn’t like using Obsidian and I’m not going to learn markdown so it’s out. I’m looking at notesnook, but it’s still not quite what I am after. But might be as close as I get.

I haven’t heard of notesnook. I’ll need to check that out.

I don’t love Obsidian, it’s just the best free app I’ve come across so far.

It’s really close to OneNote so far and has an acceptable self hosting option. The import function seems good compared to other apps I’ve tried
I just checked it out and at first it looked perfect… then I started noticing local features like exports, notebook counts, etc that were paywalled behind a subscription. For an app that is “open source” that really rubs me the wrong way. I may look through the source code later. I have a feeling they’ve tied those features arbitrarily to web services to drive subscriptions, which would be really creepy… though not as creepy as if the code exists locally and is paywalled. sigh
If you self host, all features are free.

Aha, I didn’t realize that was an option.

I see there’s a notesnook-sync-server project. Thanks for pointing that out or I’d have missed it!

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