Linux

I typically use libreoffice, but if I ever have the time to learn latex I’ll switch, I’ve heard nothing but good things aside from the learning curve

I use Markdown (very rarely LaTeX too) in Neovim, and LibreOffice for anything I can't do in Markdown.

Sometimes I'll start up the MarkdownPreview plugin I have, but typically I don't.

If I need to share it, I'll typically convert to PDF with pandoc or a random tool online if I can't get pandoc to work the way I want it.

I'd say 95% Markdown + Pandoc for when I make documents. The other 5% is LibreOffice.

When it comes time to make graphs and charts I really like wasting my time so I always try out something new (or old) to get the job done. Last time I used Pygal.

When it comes to dealing with docs from colleagues, it is all LibreOffice and Zathura.

I'm using LibreOffice at the moment.

Always used and will be using LibreOffice. It just works for me.

LibreOffice, I came for Linux support and PDF export... and stayed for the only Office that I know how to use 😄

I mostly use Libre Office, and sometimes Gnome Office

LibreOffice and avoid MS trap&trash formats as much as I can

LibreOffice, as I've been using it from soon after it was forked from OpenOffice and I'm used to it, and I don't think it's worth it to learn how to use another office suite when the one I use works fine for everything I need to do. I had tried OnlyOffice on another computer and I was positively impressed, but not quite enough to feel I should switch; in the end I only even use a small subset of the features LO has.

Markdown for myself, Google Docs when I'm collaborating with others, and OnlyOffice after puking a little in my mouth for having received a docx or pptx by email.

I'm quite happy with libreoffice.

It can be a piece of crap sometimes but less so than MS Office.

With LO I have a passionate love-hate relationship.

Depends on the use case. For my own stuff I usually use LibreOffice, for docx compability I use OnlyOffice and for presentations I use Latex with TexStudio.

Libre Office user for over a decade, recently moved to OnlyOffice and liking it a lot so far. Seems to do better with MS formats than LibreOffice, snappy and responsive. UI is cleaner IMO.

Libre is still good though.

@heimchen I keep easy. Just Libreoffice for everything.

OnlyOffice coupled with a Nextcloud instance. I can't stand the dated UI of LibreOffice/OpenOffice.

Libreoffice usually, but I was a dedicated Google docs user for years and I do miss the auto-syncing since it meant I could never really lose my work but I've been trying to reduce my Google usage. I'm travelling at the moment (months long trip) so haven't been able to set up some sort of alternative system without access to all my devices.

More and more I find myself using Google docs and sheets. It's nice that I can update things from my phone and easily share with people because everyone has a Google account.

If I am forced to use word documents, then Onlyoffice.

Otherwise Latex for text and presentation (beamer).
For tables I use the terminal program sc-im, which also works with excel files.

markdown - vimwiki for notes latex, overleaf - for research OnlyOffice - for docx and pptx

I like Libreoffice but it breaks the documents more than OnlyOffice.

and sometimes I have to double check in office365 the presentations before giving them because its always a shared computer with windows installed...

LibreOffice. Been using it for the past 14 years, and I see no reason to stop now.

It's Google Docs for me. Even when I don't need its live collaboration features.

I use LibreOffice. It’s pretty much the gold standard for FOSS office apps.

That being said, I tend to save most of my simpler documents as regular, old-fashioned plain text whenever possible, whenever there’s no formatting to save.

When I'm working on local files: LibreOffice

When I'm collaborating: OnlyOffice

OnlyOffice, I think it has the most polished UI and the LanguageTool plugin is really handy

Mostly LibreOffice, although sometimes also Google Docs (for Collab).

Because LibreOffice is available as the default office suite on most Linux distributions.

Mostly Markdown too, but I wouldn't call that an "office suite". I rarely use classic office suite software. If I have to, LibreOffice and at work I had to use — surprise — M$ Office.

The main problem for me is writing in RTL languages (right to left) I have a windows vm only for that use case

I use Rstudio with Quarto (really nice) and libreoffice

I use LibreOffice. I was using office 365 on my laptop and I just got sick of microsoft (especially after that incident where it took them six months to give me back access to my outlook account essentially rendering many services on my old PC useless) so I started looking up alternitives to Word.

My family had been using KingSoft which is a hot buggy mess so I chose LibreOffice instead. It was one of the first open source apps I chose after leaving Microsoft and I haven't looked back. If I had to pick a problem it's that 365 was way better at correcting mispelled words but other than I love LibreOffice!

Are any office suites as good as MS Office for referencing and citations? One of the things that keeps my wife stuck on windows/macOS is the need for a good Office suite for university

I’m getting into Linux which ones would guys recommend?

For my own use, I tend to go markdown for everything. Then it becomes either a blog post with hugo, or an email with markdown here (a browser and mail client extension to turn your markdown into html in a rich text field, or in an email), or a html doc.

For work, when I have no choice, I use office365. It sucks though, it's not even fully compatible with using the desktop versions of the apps (size of elements, positioning will always be slightly off)

I personally have found SoftMaker's TextMaker to be best word processor, with a backup/fallback being Libre Office. It's got a great UI, good features, and overall is just a good experience. Honestly, the whole office suite is quite good. I definitely like it better than WPS. It's also nice that you can just purchase a one-time license and have support for 3 years, for a fairly reasonable price, tbh. Yearly subscriptions are also available if you prefer that route.

There is a free (as in beer) version, called FreeOffice you can try. It's what convinced me the full version was worth it. My backup is LibreOffice, and while some years ago the difference was stark, LibreOffice has come a long way in terms of support and feature set. So it's definitely come a long way.

I would advise you to consider switching to LibreOffice from Open Office, if nothing else though. Open Office has not received a major update release in close to a decade now, and LibreOffice is truly the successor to it, as it's actually forked from it.

At home a combination of Emacs with org-mode and iWorks, I use the icloud version on Linux. I have an annyoing issue with LibreOffice and that is why I have stopped using it. The issue is that sometimes (often) the last five lines of the document is not saved.