I don't want to pay Microsoft for word. I don't want to keep all my documents on a Google server. And I also don't want to put a bunch of pirated software on my work laptop. Can you help me out?
I've been using Libre for about a month, and honestly, it falls short of both Word and Google Docs. Those two are much more intuitive, smooth, and just...better. Maybe I have to spend more time with Libre, but if you have any other rec, that would be great.
My problem with LibreOffice is how god damn intensive it is. What the fuck. A word processor should not be this resource hungry.
Disable the Java Runtime Environment from Options>Advanced and see if that helps at all
Otherwise if you're doing super light editing AbiWord is okay I guess
LibreOffice font rendering is fucking horrible on my machine Sometimes when I can't take it I become a class traitor and land on Google Docs
So everyone's gonna be recommending LibreOffice except for the few dinosaurs who'll say OpenOffice, but i say fuck that WYSIWYG nonsense, real socialists use LaTeX. Hey mods, can we get built-in LaTeX formatting on comments?
Just installed libre office and it looks like it will do everything I need. Thanks everybody
Last I checked Libre Office was the best open source one. It could have changed in the last few years but check this out.
https://www.libreoffice.org/
yeah, LibreOffice, or any FOSS windows compatible document system... Like, once you're out of the walled gardens of "mobile" computing (that they're trying to force desktops into for profit reasons but probably won't be able to for technical reasons) there's always a free version of something you want to do. and like, free as in all volunteer time and legally forcibly free to copy.
Depends if it's gonna be collaborative documents that get shared across multiple people doing tracked changes etc - in that case you're pretty much stuck with Word because nothing is really properly compatible with word. Plenty of things say they are, but that's a lie, the formatting will end up a mess (even more than it normally does with word).
If it's just your own documents, my hands-down favourite word processor is LyX, which is essentially a semi-WYSIWYG frontend for Latex. Keeps formatting really nice and ordered, very little of the latex mucking around and getting in the way of your writing. Nice version control. Really good for structured technical documents, and puts out very nice PDFs. The main problem is that it's not terribly compatible with other formats.
I have recently started using zettlr (markdown) for part of my writing, it even has a theme called Karl-Marx-Stadt 👀 .
Apart from that, LaTeX for scientific writing and Libreoffice for anything that forces me to give some bullshit word format or whatever.
Also if you know how to work with git, using it to 'sync' stuff is really useful.
