Latex on VSCode for personal things or otherwise Overleaf for collab. Otherwise default to google docs/Librr Office
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I work mostly with texts, but if I need something office-y, I go old school: gnumeric for spreadsheets and abiword for documents
Abiword is so nice and underrated. The support for p2p collaboration in a document is nice.
I don't know if it counts but I've been using pandoc for the entirety of my college life so far which includes creating presentations and writing papers. For collaboration with other students, we would usually use Google Docs. It's pretty much the standard nowadays.
99.9% of customers use Microsoft Office, so I have QEMU windows for this purpose.
For own work/at home I find I mostly get by with textfiles/markdown and odd LibreOffice spreadsheet.
Why QEMU? I've found it's performance an compatibility quite lacking compared to VirtualBox, or since you're using it anyway to run nonfree software: commercial products like VMware Player/Workstation
LibreOffice and Onlyoffice on my Nextcloud server
Office 2021 bought outright. Was using office 2010 until recently as it kept having images disappear when scrolling etc.
Google sheets for some work stuff.
OnlyOffice is the prettiest and most MS Office like, Libre seems the most widely compatible (RTL isn't really supported on onlyoffice for example)
I was using Only Office for compatibility. Switched to WPS, it feels a little bit more compatible to me. I've tried opening my docs in Microsoft 365 and everything was perfectly aligned . Encountered some problems when using text boxes, but the blame's on me for that one
Locally I use LibreOffice, but I mostly spend time online using Collabora on my Nextcloud instance, and it works for the stuff I need.
Mostly just markdown for notes and logs and stuff. For spreadsheets libreoffice and collabora (selfhosted). Sometimes google docs, but only when other people use it and I need to work with them.
I hardly ever use any Office. Docs and PowerPoint are legacy from typewriter age. I use wikis or git markdown in git repos. But if i need to use an office suite, it is google.
Generally Libre Office but I'm trying out markdown with lowdown as my translator. I'm not impressed with it to say the least and niether groff nor latex are something I can put a lot of time into. Either way, groff is a bit archaic but I prefer it to latex's syntax (yes I know Rmarkdown is a thing).
I recently switched to only office. I.get a lot of .docx files cos of uni, and I found only office to have the least amount of bugs. Most of the files I got were broken in libreoffice due to reasons I wish I could understand. For note taking I just simply use neovim and write in a markdown file. For presentations I do the same and use marp to generate the slides from my markdown.
For proper work, MS Office. For everything else: Markdown, latex and plain text. LibreOffice for most personal stuff
Honestly, I rarely use office suites these days. Mostly either wiki pages or Notion. I still use Google Docs for collaboration sometimes and LibreOffice for the rare docx or odt.
I was using LibreOffice on everything but for some unknown reason it just flat out stopped working on my machine so I installed OnlyOffice and honestly I much prefer it.
MS Office at work because they pay for it and it's our platform for almost everything. LibreOffice at home and for other personal stuff.
Mostly only need a spreadsheet. I will use anything at my disposal, but mostly Calc (LibreOffice).
Most of my text editing is markdown or actual code, so that is just VSCode or my IDE.
Markdown with neovim for gits.
LibreOffice for spreadsheets and presentations.
LaTeX for publications and moderncv template for resume.
Etherpad for collaboration.
I've had a hell of a bad time using Libre for presentations. Has it gotten better lately?
whatever comes with the distro I am using at that moment, for me personally it doesn't matter much
OnlyOffice. FOSS, great MS compatibility, more modern than LibreOffice, local apps and runs in web with Nextcloud with great document collaboration options.
Usually OnlyOffice though I keep LibreOffice installed as a backup as sometimes I've had weird compatibility issues with the former (very few and far between but still)
google docs and wps office.
Forgive me since I'm not a hardcore opensource user.
Obsidian for notes, Libre Office and sometimes (please don't punch me) Google Docs/Sheets. Oh and LaTeX with nvim for docs that need to look real nice.
LibreOffice, since I'm a light user and it's usually available.
WPS Office for editing office files. LaTeX for writing articles. Emacs for everything else.