Sahwa4d ago

Microsoft alternative: Nextcloud and Ionos develop open-source ‘Euro-Office’

https://reddthat.com/post/62741161

Microsoft alternative: Nextcloud and Ionos develop open-source ‘Euro-Office’ - Reddthat

>Nextcloud, Ionos and other partners are developing an open-source office suite under the project name „Euro-Office“ as an alternative to the market-dominant Microsoft Office. > >The two partners are not starting from scratch, but have forked the components of OnlyOffice available as open-source code and want to build on them. In the summer, the software is then intended to replace the previous office component Collabora in Nextcloud and the Ionos Nextcloud Workspace. A ‘technical preview’ is already available on GitHub [https://github.com/Euro-Office/]. While this is a good news, I think they should move from github, you know microslop copilot…

Show threadsugarsweat4d ago
Are there any real, actually good replacements for Excel? As a daily power user, every alternative I’ve tried to date pales in comparison.
Show threadSnapz4d ago
Probably more credibility if you actually give real, specific examples of what you cannot do on Libre Calc that you require?
Show threadsunbeam604d ago

Oh boy!

Lack of proper table support.

FILTER is borked.

MAP functions and their ilk aren’t there.

The DBASE functions have serious issues.

Array formulas sort of work but often results in issues.

Calculation speed is super slow. I’ve tried converting a pension forecast tool and it just ran so incredibly slowly.

As someone self hosting my own Nextcloud with Collabora, I can tell you that living with LibreOffice is easy - but living with Libra Calc is impossible. It is not a workable, serious solution.

Show threadIbuthyr4d ago
The fact that you can’t make real tables renders the software completely unusable. Tables are used in pretty much every spreadsheet.
Show threadHawke

I think you might be thinking of databases… Access (barf), not Excel.

I do think databases and tables are a useful thing but most database systems require over-specifying fields via esoteric “column types” while spreadsheets underspecify them via formatting (and extremely limited formatting at that)

Some happy medium must exist out there, but I haven’t seen it. Notion and Google Docs (Format /Convert to Table) approach this but don’t quite get there.

Mar 28 at 2:56pmWeb
Show threadsunbeam603d ago
No, definitely thinking specifically of data tables in excel.