Sahwa3d 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 threadsugarsweat3d 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 threadKaiyo3d ago
I hear this argument a lot but no one ever gives details as to what common features excel has vs say libreoffice. I’m really curious, because i’d like to contribute free time in this direction.
Show threadSerinus3d ago
Format as table
Show threadKissaki3d ago
I’m confused. Excel is a spreadsheet, that’s always in the form of a table.
Show threadWhyJiffie3d ago
that downvoter really could have instead done something useful and explain what “format as table” is
Show threadIbuthyr3d ago
A table in Excel will have a name that can be referenced. It will also automatically grow larger when you type in the row under the last row. You can have multiple tables within a sheet. It comes with extensive filters. In LibreCalc you can only set filters but everything else remains static. It’s literally the most used thing in Excel.
Show threadrecursivethinking
You just described the basic functions of a database. People are building a databases in spreadsheets. That’s not a reason to keep using Excel, that’s a reason to have an intervention lol
Mar 28 at 3:49pmWeb
Show threadcenzorrll3d ago
I think office workers would love better tools. The problem is that most programs need to be approved by IT
Show threadIbuthyr3d ago
The workflow to set up some basic calculations with ranges formatted as tables is just much quicker. I believe that’s why Excel keeps winning unfortunately. I just tried doing some basic things in LibreCalc and it was very cumbersome unfortunately. At home I don’t mind this, but at work I’d be pissed if I’d lose that functionality. It would seriously hold me back.