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MoinMoin
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Straightforward installation
You'll need Apache and Python set up. To install MoinMoin itself download the archive, open it and run setup.py from the command line.
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Attachment history isn't tracked
While it supports attachments, if an attachment is deleted, it's gone.
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Portable version
There's a Portable version of MoinMoin that can be used without having to install it.
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Can't limit attachment size
There's no way to set a limit on attachment sizes.
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Users can create personal bookmarks
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Functionality can be extended with plugins
A selection of plugins is available at MoinMoinExtensions.
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Offline sync
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Global recent changes RSS feed
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Integrates with Xapian to allow searching through files
Xapian integration will allow searching through PDF, OpenOffice, Word, etc attachments.
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Full-text search
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Reasonable selection of themes
A few dozen themes are available for MoinMoin on the ThemeMarket, allowing you to quickly change the look and feel of the wiki.
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Version control
MoinMoin allows viewing past revisions of pages.
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Free and open source
Licensed under GPL v2.
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WackoWiki Markup
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Human-readable
Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
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Allows adding custom elements
One can add actions, handlers and fromatters so it's not just about static markup
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Supports namespaces
It allows pages to be divided among "directories / namespaces" using forward slashes.
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AsciiDoc
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Standardized format
The formatting of Asciidoc is standardized so there is only one 'flavor' unlike in Markdown. The definitive user guide is here.
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Not as popular/widely used as Markdown
The Asciidoc format is not as popular/widely used as Markdown. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Asciidoc is used for some of the following projects: O'Reilly and Maker Press NFJS, the magazine other examples
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Human-readable
Simple, easy-to-read style similar to Markdown. Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
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Limited output options
Asciidoctor can only convert directly to HTML or DocBook. However, you can always use another converter such as pandoc to convert from one of the output formats to another format.
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Technical Documentation
The DocBook format which Asciidoctor can convert to was originally developed with the creation of computer books in mind and thus has a rich array of formatting options which are powerful enough to manage the formatting of lengthy technical books.
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Supported by GitHub and GitLab
Both GitHub and GitLab support AsciiDoc syntax in repositories, wikis and Gists/Snippets (powered by the Asciidoctor Ruby gem).
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It's structured
Cleanly transforms to DocBook and HTML5.
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Supports semantic markup
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Native support for colored output
AsciiDoc has offered the ability to define both the color of any text output as well as its background, almost since its inception. It accepts several standard chromatic notations for them, too, including hexadecimal and decimal RGB values, decimal HSL and named CSS.
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Shorter, more concise than Markdown
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Embedded metadata
The AsciiDoc standard defines a number of metadata values which can be defined inside a document primarily for contextual purposes that aren't rendered in its standard output such as author, date, license, document title and version, etc. These can be especially useful when searching through a large number of files/documents or documenting the evolution of one as part of a larger codebase.
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Good tool support
There are plugins to support editing AsciiDoc for many editors/IDEs.
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sK1
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Corel Draw compatible
sK1 tries to look and feel like Corel Draw, it has also an excellent *.cdr importer.
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Cross-platform
Its written in the cross-platform WxWidgets toolkit.
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Open-Source
Released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
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CMYK colorspace support
CMYK support is one of its main features.
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Under GNU LGPL
So you don't have to fear the harsh copyleft of the GNU GPL license.
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Windows, macOS, Linux
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LGPL
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Skencil
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Affinity Publisher
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One-off reasonable price, with no upgrades or monthly subs
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No EPub options (yet?)
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Very comprehensive set of features
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No Linux version available
Unfortunately, there is no Linux version available in 2021, despite of numerous requests of the users.
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Has become sufficiently popular over the past year that there is an excellent knowledge base
You can quickly find solutions, tutorials, etc. online when you need help. Contrast this to Scribus, which despite its rich feature set, is often unintuitive and awkward to use, and help from other users sometimes difficult to find.
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Lots of Resources to Learn
Serif's forums, videos and other sites offer good resources to learn this tool, which has a very intuitive interface.
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Most intuitive interface
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Windows, macOS, iPadOS
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Org-mode
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Very flexible
Org-mode is characterized by a flexible and versatile system with adaptability to different workflows, making it comparable as an Evernote alternative. It is at once simple and complex., which helps it to compete as an Evernote alternative.
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Difficult to learn
Org-mode has a difficult learning curve since you have to learn all the keybindings and commands. It's especially difficult if you are not used to Emacs.
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Built-in agenda
Org-mode has some built-in agenda functionality. You can schedule tasks and assign various degrees of importance to each of them. Org-mode agenda can also be synced with Google Calendar.
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Versioning can be tracked and synced using Git or other VCS
Org files are plain text, and lend themselves well to version control. Emacs also has good integrations for various VCS.
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Great sync support
Notes and to-dos can be synced with Trello, Toodledo, Simplenote, Orgmobile, or with tools like Git on Github, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Bitbucket, while WebDAV (with iOS and Android) can also be exported to PDF, mind map, LaTeX, HTML, Docbook, or txt.
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Basic spreadsheet functionality
Org-mode has some basic spreadsheet functionality. Other than auto-formatting ASCII tables (a notoriously annoying problem), it also has support for LISP-like syntax to define equations or any other functionality that can be achieved through spreadsheets.
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Out-of-the-box Latex support
Org-mode has out-of-the-box support for Latex: it can immediately parse equations (or other Latex markup) and can even compile notes to PDF or HTML.
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reStructuredText
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Human-readable
reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system.
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Setup can be tedious
If you prefer Python to stay out of the way so that you can focus on the task you are doing, you will find that overall Python just asserts itself far to much.
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Technical documentation
Without any adjustments RST has many facilities for writing technical documentation (API docs, syntax highlighting code, embed code from source files).
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Parsing from Python
Python's docutils include a parser for RestructuredText.
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Extensible
Generators such as Sphinx allow you to define your own custom roles, directives and output generators.
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It's standardized
There's only one standard to adhere to - no "flavors".
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Large collections of themes available
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Platforms:
Python
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HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
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Verbose
Tags can hide actual content.
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Styling via CSS
Styling through CSS is declarative and powerful, but somewhat inadequate for print without expensive tools like Prince.
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Natively understood by browsers
Natively understood by browsers, you can author and view HTML on virtually every computer without any additional software.
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Most universal and widely used markup language
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Simple
HTML is fairly simple for both humans and machines. It can be repetitive and burdensome to type, but less so than most other XML or SGML-derived formats.
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Simple interactivity through JavaScript
JavaScript code can be embedded directly into a HTML document.
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Markdown
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Lacks a coherent standard
Lacks a coherent standard, just many semi-compatible dialects (MultiMarkdown, etc). This inconsistency can cause problems if the person writing the Markdown is using a different dialect from the one that will be used to render it.
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Human-readable
Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
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Bad support for table
It has poor support for table, while table is an important part of article.
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Widely used
Markdown is quickly becoming the writing standard for academics, scientists, writers, and many more. Websites like GitHub and reddit use Markdown to style their comments.
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Bad support for larger documents
Works good for single file documents like READMEs. Lack support for cross-references, TOCs, document index etc.
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De facto standard
Markdown is ubiquitous. It's supported by nearly everything. The markup available in the common subset of all the many dialects isn't that rich, but it's usually enough to get the job done.
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It doesn't support semantic markup
It's unstructured.
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Multi-directional
You can convert HTML to Markdown or Markdown to HTML. You can use tools like pandoc to convert to other formats as well.
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Revision friendly
It is easy to track changes for markdown documents as compared to other formats like doc, html, etc. You only need to place your markdown documents under some version control system.
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DokuWiki
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Easy to set up and mantain
To install you need a webserver running PHP 5.2 or later where you unpack the downloaded archive and navigate to install.php in your browser, fill out the necessary information required for the one-page installer and you are done.
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Lots of plugins to manage
DokuWiki is highly modular. Even thing like WYSIWYG editors and categories have to be added separately as plugins. This can quickly lead to managing lots of plugins.
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Local and open source
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Plain-text file storage
Dokuwiki does not require a database, it stores everything in plain-text.
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Version control
Dokuwik offers unlimited page revisions.
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Access control
DokuWiki has built-in ACL support.
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Runs on any PHP server
It requires a webserver running PHP 5.2 or later of any kind.
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A dedicated page for recent changes
A dedicated page to quickly note what has changed recently can be set up.
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Search functionality
DokuWiki allows searching through pages.
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Very last, consuming very few Local
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Good selection of plugins
DokuWiki offers over a thousand plugins to extend its functionality.
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Good selection of themes
DokuWiki offers over a hundred templates to change the visual appearance of the site.
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PHP
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Local hosting:
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OfficeSuite
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Ads
If you don't pay for the full version, you will be forced to deal with ads.
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Rich editing features
OfficeSuite offers more editing features than similar apps for Android.
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Can not save in ODF
Sure the program can open the ODF format, which is very useful to users of LibreOffice or similar, but it does not seem to be able to save in that format as it tries to save as a docx, doc, rtf, or txt. Maybe in the future.
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Full compatibility with Microsoft Office and Open Office formats
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Excellent PDF editing capabilities
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Drag and move text
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Keyboard shortcuts
If you have a keyboard connected to your Android device, you can optimize your workflow by using keyboard shortcuts.
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Supports 56 languages
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Supports Bluetooth and WiFi sharing
Other apps typically only support cloud sharing, OfficeSuite Pro allows Android users to share over their network or straight through Bluetooth.
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Documents To Go
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Dated
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Rich editing features
Docs To Go offers more editing features than you would typically expect on Android devices
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Lack of spellchecker
If you happen to make a typo while using Documentss To Go, you're out of luck because they don't have a spell check feature.
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Android phone and tablet versions are bundled in one download
One of the best features in this app is being able to use it across devices. Instead of having to download it twice, the different versions are bundled together to save time.
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There is a one time fee for the pro version
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Internal cloud service
You don't need to use any other cloud service in order to access your documents from anywhere
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No sign up necessary
Most apps require you to sign up in order to get going, Docs to go doesn't put users through the hassle of filling out a form before getting to use the app.
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Evolution
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Supports exchange servers
Evolution is one of the few Linux desktop e-mail clients that's supports exchange servers.
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Can't choose different settings for each mail account
Settings have to applied to all mail accounts.
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Great integration with Gnome environment
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Limited configuration options
Cannot format date as preferred.
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Manages contacts, tasks, calendar and memos as well
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RAM heavy
Very heavy on RAM usage.
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Excellent GPG support
The integration with GPG is excellent. You can sign, encrypt, decrypt, authenticate and verify GPG signatures and GPG signed/encrypted email messages. All of that is just a setting away.
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Poor integration in any non-GNOME desktop
It is written with GNOME in mind.
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Good support for Google's services
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No configuration messages
Although base functions like bullets, numbered, or pre-formatted text are possible, you can't select or set the font for your messages. Not even serif or sans serif. Which is a bit spartan TBH.
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Clean interface with 2 layout variants
Going to View > Preview has the option of switching between "Classical View" and "Vertical View".
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Can be wobbly with EWS
Don't be surprised if you have to reboot it a couple of times during a working day, because error messages are piling up (e.g. connection lost, can't sync, can't store appointment, read only). Then again, is this Evolution, or what it connects to? And since such an occasional reboot is dwarfed by the fact that MS365 seems to make full IMAP/ SMTP access (close to) impossible (nice meeting invite, THX, but when is it?), just reboot and get some work done...
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HTML rendering is great
Of the many email clients available on GNU/Linux, Evolution has the best HTML renderer. It renders HTML and the entire email content exactly like it would appear on a full blown web browser. Not many email clients are capable of doing that.
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Only available on Linux
If you have to switch to another platform for whatever reason, you will need to search for a different email client.
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Platforms:
Linux
Search:
Yes
IMAP:
Yes
Exchange Support:
Yes
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Office 365
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Easy to transition from MS Office
Office 365 is laid out the same way with a similar ribbon interface that will be instantly comfortable to long-time Microsoft Office users.
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Proprietary
Uses proprietary software.
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Excellent integration and compatibility with MS Office desktop applications
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Dependant on having an Internet connection
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Allows for real-time collaboration
Multiple people can work on the same document at the same time.
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Cloud dependent
Does not edit local files, they have to be synced first.
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Speech to text dictation
Linux never got it together
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Unusable for business in the EU
Cloud applications are mostly incompatible with the EU general data protection regulation.
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No installation required
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Has only a fraction of Microsoft Office functionality
Office 365 is not a complete replacement for Microsoft Office. The most advanced functionality still can only be found on the desktop.
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Expensive
$35/user/mo.
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Platforms:
Webapp; iOS; Android
Database management:
No
Word processing:
Yes
Formula editing:
No
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MediaWiki
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The de facto standard
Mediawiki is a widely used wiki engine. It is used to power Wikipedia and thus most people will be more comfortable/accustomed to using MediaWiki.
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Access control requires an extension
There is no built-in access control, but you can download an extension for ACL.
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It has a powerful templating system
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Free and open source
Licensed under GPL.
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Version control
MediaWiki allows viewing past revisions of pages.
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It has a usable WYSIWYG editor
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Thanks to Wikipedia it is thoroughly documented
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Runs on any PHP server
It requires a webserver running PHP 5.2 or later of any kind.
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Great multilingual support
MediaWiki has full support for over 65 languages and partial support for over 300.
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Multiple database support
MediaWiki can store data in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQLite databases.
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Microsoft Publisher
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Has excellent layout and typography tools
Publisher links to Microsoft Office's online template portfolio, which is regularly updated. It covers around 700 different options and crisp, clean designs that can easily jump-start your projects.
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Incompatible with Adobe products
It can't open or import popular file types such as PDFs or Photoshop PSDs.
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Great layout tool
Its custom guidelines help you align elements on the page, and master pages give you control over elements like page numbers or framing blocks of color. Publisher even has full support for CMYK-optimized printing, the printing format used by ink printers to produce clear, high quality printing.
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Windows only
Mac and Linux still treated as fringe.
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Compatible with other Office software
It works well with the rest of the Office suite. It natively imports Microsoft Word .doc and .docx files with ease. Or if you need Excel in your next newsletter, you can import a file without hassle.
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Lacks graphic design tools
Does not allow you to craft logos or touch up photographs.
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Commonly available
Publisher comes with Microsoft Office. It is a lightweight alternative to professional layout software such as Adobe InDesign.
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LibreOffice
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Comprehensive suite of applications
LibreOffice includes applications for word-processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database management.
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Not fully compatible to MSOffice
It's not fully compatible with MSOffice and often breaks documents.
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Free and open source
LibreOffice is available for free with code available here. It's licensed under LGPL v3 with new contributions dual-licensed under MPL.
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LibreOffice Base requires Java
If you need to use Base, it requires Java.
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Cross-platform
All major operating systems are supported, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux (Arch, Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse).
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Needs a lot of system resources
It's a large office package that needs a lot of drive space and system memory.
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Multilingual
It is available in more than 110 languages.
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Documentation is out of date
Good luck turning off autocorrect, because the place where the documentation says that option is doesn't exist.
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High compatibility with MS Office
Possible to use in corporations.
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No good video editing for presentations
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Font embedding support
Font embedding ensures that the document will display correctly whether or not the target machine has that specific font installed.
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Track Changes needs to be improved
Collaborating on a single document is difficult. Track Changes makes the document hard to read as both edited and deleted text is displayed, it's not possible to print comments, tracked differences between document versions are sub-optimal and there's no system for accepting/rejecting changes.
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Portable version
LibreOffice offers a version of the suite that does not require installation. It can be kept on a thumb stick to ensure that you have an office suite on whichever machine you choose to use.
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Poor stability
Consistently crashes while editing. Absolutely unreliable.
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The de-facto standard
Being able to tell new people that the FOSS community has an actual default office suite matters. It shows that, despite the bewildering number of options, there can be a clear winner.
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Poor desktop integration
Since it is written in Java it does not integrate nicely with the operation systems theme, icons or dialogs.
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LibreOffice can take from OpenOffice, but not the other way around
Due to licensing each office suite uses, only a one-way transfer of code is possible, offering more long-term potential for LibreOffice over OpenOffice.
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Ugly interface
Ungly interface compared to others office solutions, like WPS office.
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The most user-friendly option
To attract new people to FOSS, having an office suite that is as user-friendly as LibreOffice is a must.
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Won't work with themes
It does not work with custom themes due to all the different wrappers involved.
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Encryption support
LibreOffice allows encrypting and password-locking files.
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Ribbon is experimental
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Presentations can have 3D models embeded within them
Impress supports 3D models in gITF format.
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No Quickstart
Quickstart was removed from the Linux application. Now every time you open a file it will take at least 2,5 seconds to open.
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Lots of extensions and dictionaries
Has many extensions that can add additional features to LibreOffice.
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Does not run as stable as OnlyOffice
It runs fine until it crashes. Users have experienced multiple crashes when using the cursor to select text in the writer, running in Kubuntu 18.04.
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Ribbon design
Since 5.3, LibreOffice offers a Ribbon design view (similar to Microsoft Office) (check here).
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Restricted license
LibreOffice uses a more restrictive license than OpenOffice, which makes it almost impossible to backport features to OpenOffice.
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Multiple themes
Many icon themes available to customise the look and get consistent look with the OS.
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Not a very well non-English languages spell check support
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Continued development and maintenance
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No ability to access online brokerage accounts for trading
No ability to access trading and brokerage accounts via Calc to conduct automatic buying/selling like you can in MS Excel.
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Good Zotero integration
LibreOffice works very well with Zotero. The integration of the Zotero plugin in LibreOffice is a breeze, citing while writing and generating the bibliography is just a click. Also good since you need to coop in an (MS) world: Libreoffice and Zotero cooperate very well to make sure your refs survive a "Save as" from one file format to another (e.g. docx to odt or the other way around). Basic (open and free!) tools is your in the market for this...
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Many user annoyances and malfunctions which lead to loss of work and time, often not intuitive
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Master slide management in Impress not up to mark
As of version 6, the master slide management is not as good as PowerPoint in Windows.
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Steady update
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD
License:
MPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, or LGPL-3.0
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C++, Java
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Evince
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Can annotate a pdf
It isn't immediately obvious how to do this, but the instructions are here. As of 13 June 2018, the icons/screenshots on that page look different than what can be seen under Evince v3.18.2, but the devs have been alerted to this discrepancy, and there are requests they make the finding/using of annotations more intuitive than they are now.
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Keyboard shortcuts cannot be rebound
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Search results list
Click/tap the magnifying class in the top bar.
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Scrolling is not smooth
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Good SEARCH
Evince remained my preferred viewer due to the excellent presentation of results in the whole document when performing a search. It is so good, that it makes me tolerate the silly "hamburger" (CSD) foolishness.
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Adding annotations isn't as intuitive as it should be
Instructions can be found here. Specifically, a user should be able to select a word or block of text, then right-click and see highlight/add note options in the drop-down menu. Currently, this option isn't available (as of Evince v3.18.2 / 13th June 2018).
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Link preview on hover
Evince shows a popup with the preview of the target of links in the same document. This is extremely useful e.g. for links to the bibliography or for references to definitions/propositions/equations in math texts.
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Poor UI
Since version 3 it is almost unusable.
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Free and open source software
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Can't delete pages
No Hand Tool. Automatic Zoom broken. You have to boot in to windows to have a decent PDF reader.
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Can find a word in a pdf
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Bugs that never get fixed
Irritating bugs that never get fixed (such as starting scrolling randomly when moving mouse around) and devs that don't care.
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Supports touchpad gestures
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Tied to GNOME
Comes with all those weird things like popovers and clientside windows.
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Good integration with Gnome desktop
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Slow to open PDFs
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Supports touch interaction
Supports touch, including drag and pinch to zoom.
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CSD - Why do you need to search for stuff you know is there... somewhere.
MS thought it was smart to remove "Start" buttons. With CSD, devs thought it would be good for productivity to play hide and seek with standard functions. And Evince regrettably is also riding that wave. It is that Evince has a superior (whole document) search result presentation and that its function is pretty simple and straight forward (read, search), that it makes me tolerate the silly "hamburger" (CSD) foolishness. If Atril (no CSD) would have similar search result output, a switch over would be just one heartbeat away...
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Can play embedded video
To my knowlegde, the only PDF reader on Linux that can play embeded video (unfortunately not in presentation mode, which is a major drawdack).
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Window can't be resized
You can only read in a small box or fullscreen, no way to manually size window.
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Thumbs not working
Scroll once, and all thumbs in the side panel are gone.
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Unicode problems
Some languages other than English do not render correctly.
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Google Drive
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10
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9
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No official client for Linux
Google as of yet has a client for Linux, leaving many who use the service forced to use third party apps or the webpage.
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File sharing & collaborative editing
Google account holders and non-holders can be set to access and/or collaborate on files/folders in real-time. Additionally, you can find files you've shared not only by filename but by person you've shared the files with.
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Data privacy not guaranteed
Data privacy is widely known as one of Google's weaknesses. Data shared through Google is most likely matched up with the user's profile inside other Alphabet inc. subsidiaries, and, due to the business model, used commercially.
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15GB free
This space is shared across Drive, Gmail & Google Photos.
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Terms and Conditions allow Google to own anything on Google Drive
They can create derivative works, they can perform it, they can modify it, and they can publish it at will. There are many other specific rights they take over your product. Read the Terms carefully and compare with ANY others.
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Built-in office suite
Includes tools for writing, presentations and spreadsheets.
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Very unreliable
Desktop client constantly crashes.
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Integrates with other Google services
For example, you can use search to search through both Drive and Gmail.
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No WebDAV, FTP or SFTP
It supports none of these common protocols used for access to network storage, which severely limits OS integration. You are forced to use the browser or a standalone client, which isn't possible on all systems.
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Extended functionality via apps
Third party Drive applications running in Chrome or Android can add functionality such as image/video editing, project management, flowchart creation, etc.
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Low bandwidth
Can't even upload all my files to this
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Mobile integration
You can work from any device, especially mobile.
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Low sync speed
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Save files to drive directly from Gmail
Drive lets you save any file from your email.
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No universal Windows app
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Cheap for extra storage
$1.99 per 100GB, for up to 16TB.
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Doesn't integrate well with OS
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Revision control
By clicking Ctrl + Alt + G in Windows or Command + Alt + Shift + G is OS X you can access previous version of the file.
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Indexes images
You can search images by object, place, or face when they've been added to your google photos collection. Google Assistant also helps you find screenshots that could be archived, images that aren't in the correct orientation and pictures that would work well as animations or albums.
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Platforms:
Windows; OSX; Linux; Android; iOS
Versioning:
Yes
Cloud Storage:
Yes
Free storage size:
15 GB
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Apache OpenOffice
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7
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Free and open source
Licensed under Apache License.
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Dead project
The project looks dead. They can't close even serious security vulnerabilities. You might want to use Libreoffice instead.
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Comprehensive suite of applications
Apache OpenOffice includes applications for word-processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database management.
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Documentation is lacking
OpenOffice documentation is incomplete and language is highly technical.
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Cross-platform
OpenOffice is available on Windows, Mac OS, and *nix systems.
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No copyleft
It's good for developers but bad for openoffice for example: libreoffice relicensed it under GPL now libreoffice can integrate all changes made to openoffice but openoffice is unable to integrate improvements from libreoffice.
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Multilingual
OpenOffice is available in 170+ languages.
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No CopyLeft
Unlike LibreOffice, its Grandfather OpenOffice is real open software for anyome.
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Full compatibility with Microsoft
Fully compatible with Microsoft formats - from the oldest to the latest.
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Quickstart
It has quickstart on Linux, a feature that makes opening a file blazing fast.
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Platforms:
Windows; Linux; Android; WP
Database management:
No
Project management:
Yes
Word processing:
Yes
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