OnlyOffice

“now that we've got OnlyOffice and ArtCraft, there's almost no reason to continue using the MS Office suite”

“has better compatibility with office documents and is way ahead in terms of UI”

“the UI of onlyoffice is modern and clean. To add on, it gives me a feeling of confidence that it can round-trip files back and forth from excel more reliably”

“What I like about OnlyOffice over LibreOffice is the UI.”

“I've been really pleasantly surprised. I want to be able to use an open source spreadsheet system and onlyoffice is surprisingly robust.”

“The one real problem we run into is PowerPoint decks that look different or get corrupted when used across different Office suites”

“OnlyOffice is open source and has much better Microsoft Office compatability”

“Onlyoffice is from Russian developers and includes binary blobs, it's not fully open source.”

“OnlyOffice is better than LibreOffice for people who want a more direct alternative to Microsoft Office”

“OnlyOffice‘s UBOs are in Russia and the local variant (same code, same dev) R7 office actively recommended by the Regime in Moscow.”

“OnlyOffice feels like it has more polish in regards to how approachable the UI/UX might be to a MS user”

“That doesn’t bother me. I’m just looking for a free office program that runs offline and works well.”

“OnlyOffice is not really open source. They say they are but they also add impossible conditions to their license.”

“I like OnlyOffice a lot better and switched away from LibreOffice. I like that it just looks more like a modern program and overall feels less clunky.”

“I agree with others that this is not a legitimate way to request attribution, and therefore this could be removed from the license.”

“one of them engineered a license to prevent an obvious feature of open source software (forking)”

“You're right, the branding claim here is BS but attribution requirements are legit.”

“It's AGPL but has extra restrictions: you're required to show their logo but they don't give out rights for others to use their logo.”

“they listed a bunch of controversies on the software they chose and then decided to choose it anyways”

“OnlyOffice had some controversy around being owned and operated by a Russian company through shell companies.”

“Especially OnlyOffice looks extremely similar to MS Office, I have it on all our Linux laptops at home”

“There are already credible alternatives, from the EU, which do not require rebuilding everything from scratch.”

“it was OnlyOffice that enabled me to get rid of MS Office and finally switch to Linux fully”

“It feels very light and fast and handles my very limited and light usage with grace.”

“inexplicably deleted a single spreadsheet out of a multi-sheet file on two occasions”

“OnlyOffice is still the best free alternative for anyone coming from MS Office”

“I'm not sure it's fair to denounce the FOSS version of the app just because it was built by developers that reside in Russia”

“if you ignore the Russian background of it. I wouldn't trust it.”

“OnlyOffice works extremely well for my purposes, and I install it on all my friends' PCs.”

“looked pretty good, but unfortunately had ties to Russia”

“OnlyOffice is fairly good at it, more geared towards MS-compatibility than LibreOffice”

“You could also try LibreOffice or OnlyOffice and see if the documents are readable / writable.”

“It can't handle OpenDocument files (odt, odp, ods) well. Only a one-way import is supported.”

“Switched to the free OnlyOffice a year ago and never looked back”

“I find Onlyoffice to be the closest alternative. It presents itself as a hosted office platform but you can actually install it locally and it feels just like an office program.”

“Its UI is very similar to MSO and it has excellent compatibility with the 2007+ file formats”

“the UI is much closer to modern Office and generally feels more polished”

“both have a modern ribbon-like interface and looks similar to MO”

“OnlyOffice is pretty darn good IME. I use it with some function-heavy accounting workbooks”

“My boss has issues with presentation editing (which is probably why we’ll end up with OnlyOffice), but was impressed by the features for the actual presentation.”