Alternatives to LibreOffice

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What alternatives to LibreOffice (specially LO Writer) does Ubuntu come with. I have seen Abiword there but are there others?

You would need to be more specific about what you really expect featurewise. Tautologically, LibreOffice Writers featureset is best covered by LibreOffice Writer. — Bjoern Michaelsen, Jan 20 '12 at 15:58

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 12 '17 at 12:14

~~KOffice~~ Calligra Suite

The KOffice project was replaced by Calligra Suite, after some disputes. Calligra Suite is a fork of the 2010 codebase.

IBM Lotus Symphony

uses code from OpenOffice.org and includes enhancements such as new sidebars in its user interface.

Not in the repositories, but I think it is worth mentioning, you may give it a try and see what it brings new to OpenOffice.org besides the interface

Read more: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home

Other Useful Options

For calculations one could use gnumeric, octave and Python with numpy. A fairly good lightweight word processor, Abiword is available.

For document creation, Latex and Context are excellent systems, the learning curve is a little steep when it comes to Tex based document creation systems, but when one starts reaping the rewards of the power of these systems one will see it is a small price to pay.

For people just starting with Latex, an Interface like lyx may be used. There is no substitute for a good Latex editor though, texmaker is a fine one.

Scribus may also be considered, while it is a page layout program and not a word processor there is a story editor that have similar behaviour to a word processor and there are many instance where something like this is better for document creation than a word processor.

For drawing Xfig and Inkscape are quite good.

For database, sqliteman interface to the sqlite database system

I am actually looking for alternative to the writer and the rest of a complete office suite. Latex is not really a friendly office suite. Is good that you know them but it is not a real alternative. — Luis Alvarado, Jan 20 '12 at 17:39
I will accept the answer but if you could add more (including Abiword without paying attention that I mentioned it in the question). — Luis Alvarado, Jan 20 '12 at 21:17
I was not suggesting Latex to be an Office suite alternative, just the word processing, when used with Lyx or a special Latex editor things can get a lot easier for the beginner, There are serious advantages over word processing so I could not help but mention it. — Sabacon, Jan 20 '12 at 21:18
Lotus Symphony is only available for Linux on 32 bit operating systems. — Mark Rooney, Jan 20 '12 at 21:48

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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Local one:

OpenOffice
AbiWord
Lotus

Network:

Google
Zoho

If to talk about free, of course, there's Microsoft one services.

edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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answered Jan 18 '12 at 00:07

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '12 at 20:52

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Calligra Suite is the actually developed fork of KOffice.

answered Jan 21 '12 at 20:52

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http://www.calligra.org/ for more information on this suite and it is also available in the latest Beta 6 on Kubuntu: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/calligra-2.3.86 – jjesse Jan 22 '12 at 02:28

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 31 '13 at 20:04

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As i know, IBM Lotus Symphony's release life cycle has ended. So i don't think it is a good option anymore. By the way it is also a fork, but fork of OpenOffice.

answered Mar 31 '13 at 20:04

Hilmi Erdem KEREN

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 01 '13 at 14:48

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There is also WPS Office, a Chinese Microsoft Office clone.

Note: I haven't tried it out myself yet, but you will find a number of testimonies in the comment section of the link above.

answered Apr 01 '13 at 14:48

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 21 '12 at 22:21

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At the suggestion of @k0pernikus, I've put my comment into an answer:

Now worth an "answer" but if you have a google account, you can use Google Docs. I find myself using it quite often.

answered Jan 21 '12 at 22:21

bioShark

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+1, I prefer google docs for all my work over libreoffice. – db42 Jan 22 '12 at 16:35
For some Google docs might be sufficient, for me it's not. The major pain I'm facing is ODF compatibility and 20+ features 99% of the people I work with expect you to be able to work with (e.g. Record Changes, custom styles, auto generated Table Of Contents, etc.) – gertvdijk Dec 31 '12 at 00:54

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