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These wonderful people are behind LibreOffice, offering a free alternative to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Remarkably, most of them contribute on a completely unpaid volunteer basis (thelemmy.club)
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Microsoft Office is a parasite holding people hostage with extortionate subscription fees

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[โ€“] 11 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

I like and trust them more than alternatives (and keep their software available on my systems) though I'm using OnlyOffice a little more, at least for my presentations. Technically MS PowerPoint has more features than both, but I don't really need them (and they fuck with compatibility and are resource heavy). Plus, my Linux made presentations load properly on my students' Macs PCs and ipads, as well as in browser on the LMS (Canvas).

My feelings are, LibreOffice feels more like MS Office circa mid aughts, while OnlyOffice is more like modern MS Office and Google Suite, at least as far as the ribbon menu and default themes are concerned. I'm sure I can get LibreOffice to theme just as well but the default aren't... great.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 child)

    OnlyOffice is sketchy.

    If you are doing presentations I would highly recommend trying none of the above.

    I only use markdown or one of the presentation ready things like marp or reveal.js.

    So much better and it's just plain text or html.

    You can manage presentations in git, find and replace just works, they look miles better and you can even do some neat tricks like having your students connect to a webpage and follow along on their own computers.

    PowerPoint was and is a bad idea for presentations.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Well... I don't really have that option because of slide sharing and whatnot, the system requires pptx format, even for professors. Technically I'm not even supposed to use non-MS software, lol.

    But I think you're right. It's getting to be a headache messing with OnlyOffice w/ master slides. Libre might end up being my only option simply because of its ability to work within my pptx centric work.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    That's crazy that it's because of slide sharing, when doing it this way makes it so much easier to share!

    Doesn't suprise me though, they always make the worst decisions.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 hours ago

    Hehe, yes, that and one drive shoved down our throats because they pay for it all. I can't even get them to approve my Linux system to receive school email, have to do browser Outlook.

    I'll still consider these options if I'm ever back in doing academic research and going to conferences, though.

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