LibreOffice is one of the best-known office suites that we can find on the Internet. This program becomes the best alternative to Word, Excel and PowerPoint that we can use completely free and open source. However, there are users who are not convinced by it, since, despite its potential, it has some aspects that they do not like, such as its interface, which is somewhat outdated, and some format and style problems when it comes to using it. open Office documents.
Luckily, if you are not convinced by The Document Foundation suite, below we leave you some alternatives that you can use in Linux without problems to work with all types of office files.
OpenOffice
The first of the alternatives that we are going to see to LibreOffice. This office suite is currently owned by Oracle, and is being maintained by Apache. This is the original project before it was forked with LibreOffice. And, although it hasn’t focused as much on innovation as its rival, its development has focused on offering the best possible document compatibility and a stable, polished experience.
Of course, if the reason we didn’t use LibreOffice is the interface, we must keep in mind that OpenOffice has an even more outdated interface, so we probably don’t like it in this sense either.
Calligra
This is the KDE office suite, one of the best-known Linux desktop environments. It is a suite that prioritizes simplicity over functionality, offering us a much more modern, simple and intuitive interface than any other alternative that we can find. If we do not have advanced and very special needs, we can use it without problems.
Although it is the default KDE suite, we can also find its main programs (Calligra Words and Calligra Sheets) in most of the official repositories of the main Linux distros. It is a distro that, although it has a fairly small developer community, is always up to date offering its users what they need.
CryptoPad
It is a cloud office suite, very similar to Word Online or Google Docs, but with many advantages over its rivals. The first of them is that it is a 100% open source project, with the advantages and security that this offers us. The second is that all communications are always end-to-end encrypted, which gives us extra security when working with documents.
In addition to being a cloud suite, it also has many other advantages, such as the possibility of collaborative work between several people. In addition, it also has secure cloud storage for documents, and the possibility of hosting an instance of CryptPad ourselves on our server.
Other alternatives
In addition to the previous options, we can also find many other alternatives to The Document Foundation’s office suite. For example, we have the classic Office Online, an office suite almost as complete as the programs we install in Windows and that we can use completely free of charge from any web browser. And, if we do not want to depend on Microsoft, we can also use Google DocsGoogle’s cloud office suite that also has nothing to envy of Microsoft Office and that we can also use for free from any browser.
If, on the other hand, we prefer programs for Linux, and we don’t care if they are open source or proprietary, there are other alternatives such as, for example, WPS Officea well-known option in Windows that we also have available for Linux, Android and iOS (an all-in-one), and SoftMaker FreeOfficeanother proprietary alternative that stands out, above all, for offering great compatibility with Office files.