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I try using Org-mode/Latex with pandoc,, but end up using only Office for docx and PowerPoint.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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)

[–] Shareni 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just wrote a book in Latex and it's really easy. You just learn as you go. The only problem was when a publisher required a docx-document. It was possible using pandex, but my end notes were all screwed up.

[–] KindaABigDyl 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mostly use Libre Office, and sometimes Gnome Office

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

TexStudio is a brilliant LaTeX editor! I used it almost exclusively during my studies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is pretty much me also!

IDK if I'd describe myself as a libreoffice "power user" but trying to figure out how things work in other suites is a pain.

[–] words_number 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

While I agree with LibreOffice as an option, no one should recommend OpenOffice anymore. Its just not well maintained.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could try OnlyOffice, I believe it has better compatibility with .docx files in comparison to LibreOffice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I work mostly with texts, but if I need something office-y, I go old school: gnumeric for spreadsheets and abiword for documents

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

When I'm working on local files: LibreOffice

When I'm collaborating: OnlyOffice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For proper work, MS Office. For everything else: Markdown, latex and plain text. LibreOffice for most personal stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Onlyoffice and LibreOffice depending on what I do.
Onlyoffice is an absolutely amazing online editor if you integrate it with Nextcloud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Markdown with neovim for gits.

LibreOffice for spreadsheets and presentations.

LaTeX for publications and moderncv template for resume.

Etherpad for collaboration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've had a hell of a bad time using Libre for presentations. Has it gotten better lately?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

WPS Office for editing office files. LaTeX for writing articles. Emacs for everything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • LaTeX using Tectonic -X

  • Markdown

  • Editor: nvim

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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