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
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The learning curve is actually pretty manageable. Took me an afternoon to be good enough to create lab reports for Uni. Creating your first template takes a bit but isn't super hard. Afterwards you can reuse that and only need to tweak.
This is the Tutorial I used. For an editor I'd suggest VSCode with LaTeX Workshop. (There's also LTeX which is a great grammar and spelling checker)
org-mode's initial goal was to make writing latex easy. It can do a lot more today, I use it for pretty much everything text related.
If you're interested in trying out Emacs, check out Doom Emacs or Spacemacs.
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.
Always used and will be using LibreOffice. It just works for me.
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.
I mostly use Libre Office, and sometimes Gnome Office
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.
OnlyOffice, I think it has the most polished UI and the LanguageTool plugin is really handy
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.
TexStudio is a brilliant LaTeX editor! I used it almost exclusively during my studies.
I’m getting into Linux which ones would guys recommend?
as the answers reflect: markdown for simple stuff (sou can convert with pandoc) and libreoffice for the more complex stuff and sheets especially (its preinstalled with most linux distros nowadays). documents of formal nature that exceed ~10 pages might work best in latex.
LibreOffice and OpenOffice are the two most popular I believe. One will usually come preinstalled on your distro (for me in Fedora it's LibreOffice.)
While I agree with LibreOffice as an option, no one should recommend OpenOffice anymore. Its just not well maintained.
Most people don't know this, but OpenOffice is pretty much dead. It hasn't been getting any real updates for quite a while. LibreOffice is pretty active and is the one you'd want to go with.
Source: check their repositories and also https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/LibreOffice-vs-OpenOffice
You could try OnlyOffice, I believe it has better compatibility with .docx
files in comparison to LibreOffice.
I’ve been using OnlyOffice and, as an M365 subscriber, would definitely recommend. The UI is also very similar to MS Office which can help new Linux users.
Anecdotally I’ve also found it snappier than Libre. But then I’m not a heavy office suite user so I’m sure others mileage may vary but it’s a perfect fit for my needs.
It's Google Docs for me. Even when I don't need its live collaboration features.
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.
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.
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.
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.
LibreOffice and avoid MS trap&trash formats as much as I can
LibreOffice, I came for Linux support and PDF export... and stayed for the only Office that I know how to use 😄
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...
Mostly LibreOffice, although sometimes also Google Docs (for Collab)
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.
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!
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.
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.
For proper work, MS Office. For everything else: Markdown, latex and plain text. LibreOffice for most personal stuff
LibreOffice from Flathub.
But if I'm crafting a document from scratch, I use AbiWord, which has been my default WYSIWYG editor since 20 years ago. Most recently, I used it to type the contract I used to sell a house, and to start an LLC.
I work mostly with texts, but if I need something office-y, I go old school: gnumeric for spreadsheets and abiword for documents
Latex on VSCode for personal things or otherwise Overleaf for collab. Otherwise default to google docs/Librr Office
OnlyOffice. FOSS, great MS compatibility, more modern than LibreOffice, local apps and runs in web with Nextcloud with great document collaboration options.
LibreOffice, since I'm a light user and it's usually available.
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)
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.
I use Rstudio with Quarto (really nice) and libreoffice
Onlyoffice and LibreOffice depending on what I do.
Onlyoffice is an absolutely amazing online editor if you integrate it with Nextcloud.
I'm using LibreOffice at the moment.
Me too. It is obnoxious as hell but it just works when you have to read and edit a doc your colleagues have sent you.
In what ways do you find it obnoxious? I find that many of my issues can be solved by heavily customizing the UI, but there are certainly some QOL features I miss from excel (not least of which are lambdas & tables).
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.
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
OnlyOffice coupled with a Nextcloud instance. I can't stand the dated UI of LibreOffice/OpenOffice.