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    • kamidonK
      kamidon
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      Ok so I'm not on the hunt to replace Office 2019.
      I stumbled across https://blog.wps.com/kingsoft-launches-wps-office-2019/.

      Has anyone used this for Linux before?
      How does it compare in terms of functionality and features?

      Thank you

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        This is the native office application in Deepin, so we see it fairly often. It seems pretty decent, but we normally remove it and replace with LibreOffice because we are an ODT native format company. But WPS, along with OnlyOffice, seem like really solid options.

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        • kamidonK
          kamidon @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said in WPS Office 2019:

          This is the native office application in Deepin, so we see it fairly often. It seems pretty decent, but we normally remove it and replace with LibreOffice because we are an ODT native format company. But WPS, along with OnlyOffice, seem like really solid options.

          ODT? OnlyOffice?
          I have some Binging to do. No...no Googling still sounds better. I'll have to Bing that! ok, ok that's better. Lol

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @kamidon
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            @kamidon said in WPS Office 2019:

            @scottalanmiller said in WPS Office 2019:

            This is the native office application in Deepin, so we see it fairly often. It seems pretty decent, but we normally remove it and replace with LibreOffice because we are an ODT native format company. But WPS, along with OnlyOffice, seem like really solid options.

            ODT? OnlyOffice?
            I have some Binging to do. No...no Googling still sounds better. I'll have to Bing that! ok, ok that's better. Lol

            ODT, the short name for the Open Document format as pioneered by OpenOffice / LibreOffice.

            OnlyOffice, who is active here in ML, is more of a direct MS Office competitor. OnlyOffice and LibreOffice are the two that integrate into NextCloud for live, online, shared editing. On Linux, LibreOffice is the strongest ODT tool set. OnlyOffice is probably the strongest MS Office files editor. And WPS is the up and comer, but looking pretty good, but is not open source. The old K Office suite still exists, to some degree, as Calligra and is ODT native and okay.

            Those four make up the Linux office suite landscape.

            https://www.onlyoffice.com/

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            • kamidonK
              kamidon @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said in WPS Office 2019:

              @kamidon said in WPS Office 2019:

              @scottalanmiller said in WPS Office 2019:

              This is the native office application in Deepin, so we see it fairly often. It seems pretty decent, but we normally remove it and replace with LibreOffice because we are an ODT native format company. But WPS, along with OnlyOffice, seem like really solid options.

              ODT? OnlyOffice?
              I have some Binging to do. No...no Googling still sounds better. I'll have to Bing that! ok, ok that's better. Lol

              ODT, the short name for the Open Document format as pioneered by OpenOffice / LibreOffice.

              OnlyOffice, who is active here in ML, is more of a direct MS Office competitor. OnlyOffice and LibreOffice are the two that integrate into NextCloud for live, online, shared editing. On Linux, LibreOffice is the strongest ODT tool set. OnlyOffice is probably the strongest MS Office files editor. And WPS is the up and comer, but looking pretty good, but is not open source. The old K Office suite still exists, to some degree, as Calligra and is ODT native and okay.

              Those four make up the Linux office suite landscape.

              https://www.onlyoffice.com/

              Wow! Thank you for the explanation, extremely helpful

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              • RojoLocoR
                RojoLoco @kamidon
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                @kamidon you shouldn't be Binging anything.... ewww.

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                  scotth
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                  • kamidonK
                    kamidon @RojoLoco
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                    @RojoLoco I've divorced Google completely. OH except my Pixel XL 2, but that's a money issue.

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                    • RojoLocoR
                      RojoLoco @kamidon
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                      @kamidon DuckDuckGo is your friend.

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                      • kamidonK
                        kamidon @RojoLoco
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                        @RojoLoco Yeah I was using that for a while, actually I have the plugin active on this very machine now (disabled for this site, as is uBlock Origin).
                        But I actually find Bing to work very well lol. HOWEVER, there was a situation where I was desperately searching for an answer to a...Web Administration script question I was working on, I turned to Google and actually found an answer. Of course I ended up not using the info from that site, but still lol.

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                        • hellonadyaH
                          hellonadya @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller looks like you did my job here :smiling_face:

                          That's right ONLYOFFICE uses OOXML (docx, xlsx, pptx) as core formats and is aimed at replacing MS Office. We work with ODF using conversion.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @RojoLoco
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                            @RojoLoco said in WPS Office 2019:

                            @kamidon DuckDuckGo is your friend.

                            that's what I use

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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender @hellonadya
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                              @hellonadya said in WPS Office 2019:

                              @scottalanmiller looks like you did my job here :smiling_face:

                              That's right ONLYOFFICE uses OOXML (docx, xlsx, pptx) as core formats and is aimed at replacing MS Office. We work with ODF using conversion.

                              I need to give this a try to see if it could provide a drop in replacement for Office 2016... The last time I tried, OpenOffice - I think - it messed with formatting so badly that management said it wasn't worth the headache of fixing all their files to look good in another product.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                @Dashrender said in WPS Office 2019:

                                @hellonadya said in WPS Office 2019:

                                @scottalanmiller looks like you did my job here :smiling_face:

                                That's right ONLYOFFICE uses OOXML (docx, xlsx, pptx) as core formats and is aimed at replacing MS Office. We work with ODF using conversion.

                                I need to give this a try to see if it could provide a drop in replacement for Office 2016... The last time I tried, OpenOffice - I think - it messed with formatting so badly that management said it wasn't worth the headache of fixing all their files to look good in another product.

                                OpenOffice was a LONG time ago, LibreOffice split off and has been the leader in that space since 2010. That's basically a decade. LibreOffice for many years has been way, way better at formatting MS Office documents. Still not perfect, but nothing like it used to be in the OpenOffice era.

                                But being ODT native, using it for MS Office files presents natural challenges. OnlyOffice would be the obvious choice to test out. I'd be very interested to hear how it goes.

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                                • kamidonK
                                  kamidon @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in WPS Office 2019:

                                  @Dashrender said in WPS Office 2019:

                                  @hellonadya said in WPS Office 2019:

                                  @scottalanmiller looks like you did my job here :smiling_face:

                                  That's right ONLYOFFICE uses OOXML (docx, xlsx, pptx) as core formats and is aimed at replacing MS Office. We work with ODF using conversion.

                                  I need to give this a try to see if it could provide a drop in replacement for Office 2016... The last time I tried, OpenOffice - I think - it messed with formatting so badly that management said it wasn't worth the headache of fixing all their files to look good in another product.

                                  OpenOffice was a LONG time ago, LibreOffice split off and has been the leader in that space since 2010. That's basically a decade. LibreOffice for many years has been way, way better at formatting MS Office documents. Still not perfect, but nothing like it used to be in the OpenOffice era.

                                  But being ODT native, using it for MS Office files presents natural challenges. OnlyOffice would be the obvious choice to test out. I'd be very interested to hear how it goes.

                                  The last time I used "Libreoffice" was back when OpenOffice was a thing 😛 🙂

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                                  • kamidonK
                                    kamidon
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                                    This is random, but how good is GIMP now?! I mean damn it's awesome nowadays. Love the new interface.

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                                    • dafyreD
                                      dafyre @kamidon
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                                      @kamidon said in WPS Office 2019:

                                      This is random, but how good is GIMP now?! I mean damn it's awesome nowadays. Love the new interface.

                                      It's what I use when I need to do something. I'm no professional, so it more than meets my needs.

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                                      • kamidonK
                                        kamidon @dafyre
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                                        @dafyre said in WPS Office 2019:

                                        @kamidon said in WPS Office 2019:

                                        This is random, but how good is GIMP now?! I mean damn it's awesome nowadays. Love the new interface.

                                        It's what I use when I need to do something. I'm no professional, so it more than meets my needs.

                                        Muh Ctrl + T and Ctrl + D tho!

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @kamidon
                                          last edited by

                                          @kamidon said in WPS Office 2019:

                                          This is random, but how good is GIMP now?! I mean damn it's awesome nowadays. Love the new interface.

                                          Been quite good for a long time. But still hard to use.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @kamidon
                                            last edited by

                                            @kamidon said in WPS Office 2019:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in WPS Office 2019:

                                            @Dashrender said in WPS Office 2019:

                                            @hellonadya said in WPS Office 2019:

                                            @scottalanmiller looks like you did my job here :smiling_face:

                                            That's right ONLYOFFICE uses OOXML (docx, xlsx, pptx) as core formats and is aimed at replacing MS Office. We work with ODF using conversion.

                                            I need to give this a try to see if it could provide a drop in replacement for Office 2016... The last time I tried, OpenOffice - I think - it messed with formatting so badly that management said it wasn't worth the headache of fixing all their files to look good in another product.

                                            OpenOffice was a LONG time ago, LibreOffice split off and has been the leader in that space since 2010. That's basically a decade. LibreOffice for many years has been way, way better at formatting MS Office documents. Still not perfect, but nothing like it used to be in the OpenOffice era.

                                            But being ODT native, using it for MS Office files presents natural challenges. OnlyOffice would be the obvious choice to test out. I'd be very interested to hear how it goes.

                                            The last time I used "Libreoffice" was back when OpenOffice was a thing 😛 🙂

                                            Yeah, it has improved a bit.

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