Latest maintenance release brings improved stability and fixes to the powerful free office suite Berlin, 30 April 2025 – The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 25.2.3, the third maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux, which is […]
Without a doubt. Very good MS Office compatibility now, alongside a user interface that gets me to what I need and is heavily customisable, and very well done integration with Zotero (the best thing ever for citations) through an extension comes together to being by far my most preferred office suite even when I have to use Windows. In addition, Draw has saved me at least a few times when I’ve had to deal with some PDFs that other software finds difficult to work with.
How is OnlyOffice’s offline performance and support for Graphite smart font technology? I use Graphite fonts and no support for those is a deal-breaker.
No idea. The reason I recommend it it is the far sleeker interface and beginner friendliness. Besides the better looking UI it does not really add anything.
Also, libre office has randomly crashed for me on multiple distros now, while doing really mundane things like… resizing a window or trying to save the document as PDF.
I will second only office. It’s more stable for me.
LibreOffice is the GOAT of office softwares
I’ve had many bugs with it (like dark theme that seems completely broken)
Me too, so I just switch to light mode and deal with my eyes burning
And I have to change my OS settings because modifying the theme in libreoffice’s settings doesn’t work (Linux) 😵
Without a doubt. Very good MS Office compatibility now, alongside a user interface that gets me to what I need and is heavily customisable, and very well done integration with Zotero (the best thing ever for citations) through an extension comes together to being by far my most preferred office suite even when I have to use Windows. In addition, Draw has saved me at least a few times when I’ve had to deal with some PDFs that other software finds difficult to work with.
Have you ever tried dark mode in libreoffice? Else you would know the truth
Works fine for me in KDE when icons are also set to Breeze Dark. Page goes dark, icons go light, toolbar goes dark.
For sure, definitely one of the best and one of the most remarkable FOSS out there
Use dark mode bruh and truth will reveal itself
How many time do you need to repeat it over the post?
OnlyOffice looks so much better and simpler.
Its slower
What do you people do with a word processor?
How did you test it’s apparent ‘slowness’? I use it and have no issue.
Run it on ancient hardware. If it chokes on computers from the '90s, it’s slow.
tbf the standard should be mid to late 2000s at this point cmon.
How is OnlyOffice’s offline performance and support for Graphite smart font technology? I use Graphite fonts and no support for those is a deal-breaker.
No idea. The reason I recommend it it is the far sleeker interface and beginner friendliness. Besides the better looking UI it does not really add anything.
Isn’t only office limited to Microsoft office formats though?
I think you can also export open document style.
It’s never mentioned on their website. I’ll have to install it some day to check it out.
Also, libre office has randomly crashed for me on multiple distros now, while doing really mundane things like… resizing a window or trying to save the document as PDF.
I will second only office. It’s more stable for me.
OnlyOffice crashed for me repeatedly on Debian, LibreOffice did not.
But otherwise yes, I prefer OnlyOffice as well for a much friendlier interface.
LibreOffice just commonly puts mundane parameters God knows where.