The desktop app (on Linux at least) would give lots of errors and refuse to upload files. In addition some uploaded files were corrupted when trying to download them.

I like their idea and philosophy but at the moment their excecution is quite poor making the product unrealiable.

[–] jstatepost@mstdn.social 1 points 1 week ago

@FallenWalnut
Bookmarked and boosted!

[–] Wrdlbrmpfd -1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I prefer Only Office (Desktop Version) to Libre Office, because

it does not look like over 20 year old Office 2003
it uses docx and xlsx as native format which makes it easier for noobs

I heared Only Office has some Russian connections. Otherwise it still is Open Source.

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[–] RedPandaRaider -2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I do not want to start a discussion about Linux since I'm no expert and a million of Linux experts will know better.

But don't all the suggested distros here (as well any user friendly ones in general) rely on the kernel written by Torvald's team. With that team being based in the US and at least Linus himself having acted as a three letter agency asset before, can they really be called privacy friendly or even secure? (I'm talking about the CIA or NSA having had a backdoor into Linux in the past and Linus also having banned Russian contributions last year while not banning American contributions, much less moving the operation outside of the US)

[–] leighms@mastodonapp.uk 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

@RedPandaRaider @FallenWalnut
As it is fully open source with many tens of thousands of people poking about with the code, if there was any form of 'back door' it would have been found and removed.
There would also been a massive howl of condemnation against Linus that everyone would have heard about.

So many people have taken the basic code and built different flavour distros with it, it is very well understood.

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