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France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded) (mastodon.social)
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (18 children)

Pretty good project, but is it the future to have mainly web apps?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It’s definitely been the direction of travel for the last several years. Not because the products are better, but because it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

    They also work on android and IOS. You are also not dependent on the different toolkits. Also it is so much more performant.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I’ve never found them to be more performant, and i can’t understand the logic of why a programme running inside another programme would be more performant except in comparison to unoptimised alternatives.

    I’ve never used a web app that i thought was better than a local app. But i definitely understand why developers prefer them.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    A bit of both I guess

    Web apps have the advantage of not requiring admin permission and being accessible from pretty much everywhere, and they are often less intensive I believe

    And I guess cloud storage of documents makes it even better

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I guess I don't mind if I can self host the server. If I can't I have no interest in touching it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    For sure! self hosting is the way

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    True: self hosting is beneficial, Foss office suite is great to empower us, users... etc.

    The point of the software presented isn't aimed at regular computer users that would enjoy a bit of independence, it looks more like something aimed at the enterprise administrative level that people may stumble upon while searching for a document (who needs versioning apart from filename extensions if you alone work on the documents).See it as: you may find , download and use updated packaged software on github but in reality it's really a tool aimed at devs before being a software repository for end users.

    I see this as software mainly for the French or German state administration being made public for others to enrich, integrate... Like Olvid is a matrix based E2E encrypted, real authenticated identity based messenger made available to the public once the French government financed it's development for it's own use.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    no office software requires admin eighter unless you want to install it for all users

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    it's often a pain to install in computers that don't have it by default, like school computers or similar, but alright, didn't know it!

    +some people don't like installing stuff

    +you can't collaborate with other people on the default LibreOffice I iirc

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    For offline editing there's already LibreOffice

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    LibreOffice does everything I need it to and there's no need for anything else.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A good web app is awesome!

    But the big ones usually wants to have a native app so that they can scan your whole computer and so on. This is good news.

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