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Euro-Office, a good fork of highly criticized ONLYOFFICE

I found that someone from Europe just forked ONLYOFFICE. I really hope this could be a good alternative

Euro-Office

Your sovereign office. Euro-Office has 20 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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Mar 29 at 12:51amWeb
Show threadjeffep23h ago

I wish it were as reliable as libreoffice, hopefully in a future release.

Current state: libreoffice has a terrible UI but works. OnlyOffice has a great UI but only works when I don’t need it urgently

Show threadTywèle18h ago
What’s so terrible about LibreOffice‘s UI?
Show threadFeddinat0r18h ago

This.

I understand the point, that libreoffice dont work in the browser and online.

But the ui of libreoffice isnt bad, its “classic”

Show threadpoVoq15h ago

There is Collabora Office (Or the rebranded Nextcloud office) that puts a modern web interface in front of LibreOffice.

It works quite well, but since the main work is still done in the headless LibreOffice on the server it doesn’t scale well to larger deployments.

Show threadcschreib17h ago

To me it’s less about the aesthetics and more about ergonomics. I still feel at times that the UI, specifically the toolbar, is jumbled together without much cohesion. Or that the interface has been designed to allow entering inputs to someone else’s tool, rather than built for me to do what I need.

I’m sure some of it can probably be customized; I don’t actually use it that much that I feel the need to tinker.

Show threadjeffep13h ago
It’s massively inconsistent, lacks good defaults, stuff moves around everywhere, sizing is off. It’s just a grown project that lacks a serious effort to work on the UX. It’s free to use of course, but I think in 2026 the standards are just different
Show threadsleepundertheleaves22h ago

Why did you not work with libreoffice and collabora online?

We believe open source is about collaboration and we look for oportunities for integration and collaboration with the LibreOffice community and companies like Collabora. There are already some ideas how to collaborate for example in the document converter.

Sigh.

I have no particular opinion about LibreOffice vs OpenOffice vs ONLYOFFICE vs whatever.

I have very strong opinions about government spokespeople that provide garbage non-answers.

Show threadpoVoq15h ago
Where is the government involved in this?
Show threadprenatal_confusion14h ago
I was convinced that it was in cooperation with the German government funding open source software. It is not. But they are definitely aiming for the public sector.
Show threadsleepundertheleaves12h ago

I was too. My bad.

I have strong opinions about corporate-sounding non-answers too 😆