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Mozilla Thunderbird
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Free (as in freedom and beer)
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Development slowed to only focus on stability and security
Mozilla Thunderbird has slowed down its development of features to only focus resources on security and stability.
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Available on Linux, OS X and Windows
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Outdated interface
Thunderbird's interface is very outdated and unpleasant. It feels more like a Windows XP application than like a modern MacOS one.
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Very reliable
Version after version, Mozilla Thunderbird works as expected.
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Terrible integration with macOS
Simple things - drag/dropping pictures doesn't work, for instance.
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Good filtering system
Mozilla Thunderbird offers a flexible filtering system with the ability to set flags and read/unread, as well as sort/assign to new mail directories. There are also numerous plugins available to assist in the filtering.
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Subject lines can (temporarily) disappear from the list
This is sporadic behavior.
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Large assortment of plugins available
Mozilla Thunderbird offers a huge amount of extensions to expand the usability and options of the client.
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Serious bugs
Clicking on a subject line can bring up the wrong email.
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Great flexibility
More options and extended settings than most power users could dream of. Get it working how YOU want.
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Tabs for navigation
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Lightning Calendar and Address Book integration
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Consistent and involving a moderate learning curve
The app design of Mozilla Thunderbird has not changed significantly since its beginning, making its learning curve almost non-existent.
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Send large files easy
Install pCloud plugin for Thunderbird and your files (upto 20 GB free storage included) will be received as download links
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Windows, macOS, Linux
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IMAP:
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Alpine
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Extremely user-friendly
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Updates are not frequent
Alpine is not updated frequently. This means that new features, bug fixes or security updates come much later than in other email clients.
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Can use the built-in text editor or can be integrated with another text editor
Alpine comes with pico, a lightweight text editor which can also be used as a standalone tool. It can also be integrated with vi, vim, emacs, etc... if the user prefers to do so.
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On-screen contextual help
Alpine has contextual help that can be displayed on-screen. Removing the need to consult the man pages every time you forget a command or how to do something inside it.
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None
Default Desktop Environment:
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Mu4e
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UI optimized for speed
The UI is designed to allow for quick keystrokes to get around and is pretty clean. Header View: Message View:
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Asynchronous
Heavy actions never block emacs, unlike most other emacs email clients.
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Fully Search Based
Mu4e has no folders or other organizational tools, rather it relies on very fast search queries to help you find your mail.
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Can write rich text emails
Using the (beta) org mode, Mu4e can compose fully rich text emails.
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Built-in Autocomplete
Doesn't require you to import address books for autocomplete, learns from your emails just like Gmail.
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Kontact
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Multi-account, multi-identity
Supports both multiple accounts from different servers / services simultaneously (both inbound and sending) as well as multiple identities. Incoming accounts have a default identity and it switches automatically to the correct identity depending on the mail folder you are in.
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Crashes frequently
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Integrated calendaring
The integrated calendaring support means that incoming invitations can be accepted with a click and they get put into your calendar automatically.
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Akonadi
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Supports multiple groupware servers and services
Besides being able to connect to any IMAP, POP3 and SMTP server, you can also connect your Google and Facebook accounts and access Kolab and Tine servers natively.
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Encryption
Fully supports PGP and S-MIME with built-in certificate management. Encrypt, sign and verify emails easily and securely.
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Built-in search
Searching for emails is simple with the search box in the main window which can scan through email bodies, email flags, recipients, etc. Lightening fast in recent versions.
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Plain text and HTML mail editing
Provides support for rich-text (HTML) mail editing, but kindly defaults to plain text. Also supports viewing HTML emails with several security features built-in.
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Contacts, Todos, Notes, Journals, Feeds ....
There are numerous components that come with Kontact that augment the mail experience including contact management, todo lists, note takers and an RSS feed reader, among others.
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Integration with kde plasma
Based on qt, and part of plasma suite, it integrates well with other KDE apps like kwallet, calendar, etc.
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Continuous, active development
Kontact has been actively developed for over a decade, with components such as the mail and calender going back even further. Development continues to this day with an active and responsive open source community made up of both volunteers and paid developers behind it.
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Solid offline IMAP
IMAP support is a strong point for Kontact, with offline mail and sync being transparent and automatic. Read and create mails on the go and everything syncs quickly and reliably when network connectivity is available.
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Spam, scam and adblock features
Supports spam filtering, scam detection and adblock for HTML mails.
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Keyboard friendly
Can be driven almost entirely from the keyboard. Moving an email, for instance, is a simple matter of hitting 'm' and then typing to filter through the list of folders that appears.
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Cross-platform
Works on Linux/BSD (all desktop environments and window managers), Windows and Mac.
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Threading
Has flexible and powerful options, from "traditional" conversation-style threading to organizing by date, by senders and receivers, .... paired with "keep replies in same folder" it is easy to track conversations over time.
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Filtering
Supports client and server-side filtering of mails by subject, recipients, mailing list, body text, etc.
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Very flexible user interface
You can make the Kontact UI look and function how you want. You can re-arrange the main interface, as well as make the list of mails show or hide almost anything you could need.
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Professional support
For enterprise deployments, having commercial support can be a big plus. Companies such as Kolab Systems provide professional support and consulting services for Kontact.
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Linux
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Mutt
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Terminal based
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Terminal-based
It runs inside the terminal so it doesn't display HTML email, fonts, or graphical elements.
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Small and efficient
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Active development
Even though it was first released in 1995, Mutt still enjoys an active community following it and having new releases constantly.
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It runs inside the terminal
It doesn't display HTML email, fonts, or graphical elements.
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Compose mails in your favorite editor
Edit mails efficiently with an editor you already can work fluently with.
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Highly configurable macros
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Threads emails
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Work with regular expressions
Mails can be filtered, deleted, flagged, etc. with regular expressions which makes mail management very efficient.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux
License:
GPLv2+
Technology:
C
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Claws Mail
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Low resource client
Claws Mail is a low resource e-mail client that is often default in low resource Linux distributions.
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Blocks and freezes all the time
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Open-Source
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Saves passwords in plain format
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Has many plugins for extra functionality
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Too much bloat
some people dont like the simple design of slypheed so they forked it and created claws mail but it has become so bloated since itsbeginnings.
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Traditional user interface
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Saves emails in uncompressed format
This takes more space on the HDD.
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Clean interface with 5 layout variants
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Interface looks old and setup is not easy
The icons as well as the rest of the interface look like an application from the early 90's, with this there is also no easy setup options built in like the more modern e-mail clients.
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Saves emails in uncompressed readable format
Allows one to read archived emails with a text editor.
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Has very strong filters
The filters a much stronger than in thunderbird.
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Saves passwords in encrypted format
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Has many themes
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Also supported on Windows
This makes switching the platform easier.
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Good support for Google's services
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Platforms:
BSD, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, Unix, Windows
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Mailspring
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Can't use without creating a Mailspring ID
There is no need to create a third party ID for an email client. What if the Mailspring closes in the future - can't install a previously downloaded Mailspring software any more to continue using it or access your stored emails?
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Great integration with Gmail
Mailspring has great integration with gmail features and tags.
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Slow updates and bug fixes
It takes months to fix some simple bugs. For example, they can't fix bug with notifications on mac OS from April 2019! Upd: they fixed it after 6-7 months
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Neat UI
The UI is very well designed and neat.
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Unstable, have to keep fixing passwords
You have to keep "updating the password" because it continuously finds it hard to sync with multiple Outlook accounts.
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Read receipts and link tracking
Activity tracking is built into Mailspring so you get notified as soon as contacts read your messages and can follow up appropriately.
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Pro subscription model
To use some features, like contact profiles and link tracking more than a few times a month, you need to pay for a Pro subscription.
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CPU / battery efficient
Mailspring uses a C++ sync engine designed to be as efficient as possible, so you can leave the app running and not see your laptop battery life drain away.
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No addressbook
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Unified inbox
Using a single inbox for all of your email accounts helps you get more done in less time. Mailspring supports every major mail provider—Gmail, iCloud, Office 365, Outlook.com, Yahoo!, and IMAP/SMTP—so you have a single, streamlined command center for all your messages.
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No way to see messages as plain text
And HTML is only optional.
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Snoozing support
You can swipe to archive / snooze messages and specify when you'd like them to resurface in your inbox.
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Does not support Microsoft Exchange
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Unlimited number of accounts
Only in the paid version though.
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Very limited user interface
No way to see the messages as a list, no way to rearrange views.
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No portable windows (.zip) bundle available
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Does not support POP
Just IMAP.
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Does not support multi-user installation (Windows)
But instead installs to the user's home directory.
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UI is sluggish (Windows)
Click and only after a tiny delay (~half second) something happens.
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Geary
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Straightforward and simple UI
Setting up accounts is a simple as putting in the users e-mail address and password.
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No PGP
No encryption available.
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Native GNOME application
It looks and works like a GNOME application should, so it Just Works™.
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No horizontal layout
There is no optional horizontal layout for those that want to be able to view their emails headers across the full screen.
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Fast and responsive
Geary is faster than most e-mail applications, upon starting the program or even just browsing in folders.
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Made for Gnome 3
It may look out of place in any other desktop environment.
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Beautiful UI
Everything about the look and feel of Geary is a breath of fresh air after the clunkiness and ugliness of it's competitors.
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No incoming message rules
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Lightweight
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Too basic
Very Basic, cannot format date, cannot create new folders - What!!
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Threaded conversations
Threaded conversations means all subsequent replies are view-able underneath the initial e-mail.
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Not seen as a secure app by Gmail
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SQLite DB for email
It uses SQLite DB for storing email messages from all accounts in one single DB file. This makes it portable as in you can just copy one SQLite DB file and move your offline mail content to another PC/location. Also, one SQLite DB file for all messages means it is incredibly fast.
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No native Exchange support
Whilst possible if your Exchange server and account are using Davmail as a proxy, at the moment you can't natively add an Exchange account.
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Work in background
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Development is pretty dead
No real development since October 2017. This should be changed from a "Con" to a "Pro" as the Librem 5 smartphone has Geary as the default email application. There is ongoing development happening as can be seen at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/commits/mainline
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TNEF support
Support for Outlook-specific email attachments (TNEF).
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No Pop3 support
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Bad HTML rendering
The HTML rendering of email messages is not full fledged. Some messages can appear a bit off compared to their appearance on browsers
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No images in HTML signatures
Whilst it is possible now to add a HTML or plain text signature per account, there is no support for per images in the signatures. This is a must for when an employer imposes a set signature with images.
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Its bloated
IT requires many GNOME dependencies or it will be unusable on the most non other X11-desktops
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No proxy support
Seems like it can't retrieve email from behind proxy.
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Platforms:
GNU/Linux
License:
LGPLv2.1
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The GNOME Project
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Sylpheed
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No encrypted mailbox
Likely hasn't been done by anyone since Calypso/Courier back in the 00's.
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Reliable
No issues with stability or stuff going missing.
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Comprehensive settings
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Very very lightweight
It is simple and very lightweight where claws mail added a lot of bloat like themes and plugins slypheed keeps it simple.
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gnus
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Everything is customizable
Yep, really. From Outlook-mode, where Outlook-typical TOFU mails are “repaired”, up to a high-sophisticated scoring and SPAM filtering, footer lines with quotes, rules depending on the recipient, MIME formatting, boxquotes, etc.
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Difficult documentation
Originally a newsgroup reader, so its documentation uses Usenet terminology for everything -- which is confusing.
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It supports IMAP and POP3
… but you can use DavMail to connect to Exchange server via EWS.
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Calcurse
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Not made for app users
If you come to any professional or console software, expecting it to just behave like your Windows GUI apps, … you’re gonna have a bad time. You will need to know what you want, and actually tell the program so, by configuring it. So that then, it will fit you like a glove instead, of you having to fit into a dumbest common denominator mold. Like all professional software.
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Supports arbitrary backends
E.g. CalDAV. Via its load/save hooks.
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No built-in help
The “help” function only tells you that you can use help on the program’s functions. But not what functions there are! How can you know what to ask for when you don’t know what there is? It’s like a text adventure game or Family Feud all over again.
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Efficient
Uses very few resources, starts in the blink of an eye.
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Keybindings also used by certain graphical terminals
The keybindings of either program have to be changed in that (rare) case.
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Scriptable
You can use it in scripts via its command-line interface, and run scripts from it via hooks. So you can automate everything away, instead of being forced to use a GUI. A powerful feature.
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Fully customizable
Shortcuts, data sources, you name it. As real software should be.
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Simplicity
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Lightning Calendar
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Free, open source
Lightning Calendar (just as Thunderbird) is completely free and open-source meaning that anyone can use it as well as look through the code or even use the code for their own projects.
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Available only as part of Thunderbird
No standalone version of the calendar app is available. And if you're just interested in Lightning Calendar and not Thunderbird, the app will have additional functionality and interface elements that will get in the way of using the calendar.
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Easily keep track of tasks
Bundled in with the calendar options is a tasks option that makes for an easy way to keep track of tasks in the same location as ones events.
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Does not always clear old events from the display, even when the event has been deleted
When accessing Google Calendar, every check shows that the event does not exist anymore.
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Cross-platform
Wherever Mozilla Thunderbird can be installed, the Lightning calendar can follow: Windows Linux MacOS
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No full CalDAV support
CalDAV support is more hackish than working reliably. E.g. certain fields are not supported, or alarms can lead to duplication of events or changes being reset. As CalDAV support is not truly built-in, and the extension does not have a high quality.
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Requires third-party gmail integration
And it's not supported in 60+. Use the old versions if you want anything to work.
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Not for all the versions
You have to downgrade Thunderbird just because Lightning didn't upgrade to the last beta version.
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Long term availability/ support
Although Thunderbird has an impressive track record and many years of reliable service, its continued existence has been doubtful more than once). For now, all seems good, but it would not be surprising if tomorrow it turns out Thunderbird "has left the building".
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GUI makes you feel like it's 1995, and not in a nostalgic way
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Calendar
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GNOME native integration
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Cannot print
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Currently in active development
GNOME Calendar is improved with every release cycle of GNOME.
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Extremely buggy
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Simplicity
Calendar for GNOME aims to find the perfect balance between features and usability.
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Poor interoperability with online calendars
Does not connect to Fastmail.
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Synchronisation
It has online accounts integration.
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Far too simple
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FAR too tied into the GNOME infrastructure
The UI and configuration presume you are running GNOME, and has the ugliness of a GNOME application. Configuration, as is usual for any GNOME application, is pretty much nonesistent.
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Can't read 'all-day' events with dark theme
Text is white on light blue with dark themes. The workaround: assign all-day events to just one hour.
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Can't import ics files
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Continues to pop-up reminders that are turned off and they cannot ever be removed
The GNOME Calendar displays pop-ups from an old Google Calendar that was used. That Google Calendar has long since been removed from GNOME, and even with the notifications turned off on the GNOME Calendar, the pop-ups still happen.
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Incorrect appointment times when importing .ics calendars
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No support yet for WebCal
No support yet for WebCal, such as those offered by Facebook events. A workaround exists. Since this application uses the same background services as Evolution, installing it and adding the WebCal calendars there, also adds them to GNOME Calendar.
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Only works on GNOME
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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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kmail
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Buggy as of 2020
There are many bugs which are hard to track down in kmail, sometimes without any useful logs for troubleshooting. Sometimes the bugs are related to supportive applications like Akonadi, ect.
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Proper kde intergation
Its the only graphical email client which is properly integrated into kde plasma.
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Poor UX
The user experience of kmail is extremely poor comparison to Thunderbird or evolution on Linux.
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Has system tray icon
Good integration with plasma 5
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Buggy related kdepim applications
kmail by itself isn't the only application which is buggy, the many of the kdepim applications are buggy as of spring 2020.
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Supports POP3 and IMAP mailboxes
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No google support
You cant pass google 'Authentication' for the majority of the kdepim applications, The only support which works is via the kde 'online accounts' under 'system settings'. This only supports youtube and google hangouts integration.
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Akonadi
Akonadi needs lot of ram
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Linux, Windows
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KDE Plasma
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Release Schedule:
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Documents To Go
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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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Rich editing features
Docs To Go offers more editing features than you would typically expect on Android devices
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Dated
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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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Free
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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
Notetaking:
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Lets you focus on the content
LaTeX handles the design so you can focus on the content
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Steep learning curve
LaTeX is not what you'd consider easy to use, and while there's plenty of documentation out there, much of it is rather opaque unless you're a seasoned TeXnician.
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High-quality typesetting by default
There's a reason that scholarly journals often require the use of LaTeX for articles printed in their pages, and it's because the quality of the output is that good. Universities often require, or at least encourage, the use of LaTeX for graduate theses and dissertations for this same reason.
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Single-threaded design
LaTeX is single-threaded by design, since it must necessarily work sequentially to produce each page as it is laid out by the typesetting engine. This makes it dependent on the power of just one individual core in your multi-core computer setup and so migrating to a machine with more cores won't necessarily make your LaTeX documents build faster.
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Free open source software
Licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License
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Not a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor
LaTeX uses the paradigm what-you-see-is-what-you-mean instead.
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Editor-independent
You can edit LaTeX sources in any text editor.
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Cross-platform
Works on every major OS and gives exactly the same quality output everywhere you go. LaTeX on macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, and even Mac OS 9 has exactly the same output for a given set of sources.
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Effortless math input
The whole reason that TeX -- and, by extension, LaTeX -- exists is to give people an easy way (well, for some value of "easy") to produce high-quality documents with properly laid out mathematical expressions and text in them. As long as you know the language (or have a reference sheet handy), you can include mathematical expressions in your document with little to no extra effort needed on your part.
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Google Calendar
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Integrates with Google Maps for directions
The app leverages Google Maps when adding location for an event by offering suggestions as well as offers opening Maps to help get directions to an event via shortcut on a reminder notification.
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No vertical scroll
Like iOS and outlook for Android.
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Comes pre-installed on most Android devices
Google Calendar is a free Android calendar app without ads that comes already installed on Android devices that have stock support for Google Services.
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Privacy concerns
Google integrate all their services to connect and mine information on an individual to better profile and target advertising.
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Clean design with 5 different views including an excellent schedule view
Google Calendar has a monochrome base design that's accented with colored-coded events and image banners that separate months in schedule view. The app has 5 different views - schedule, day, 3-day, week and month. Day, 3-day and week views split up the days horizontally and hours vertically. Month view lays out all days in a grid and displays up to 3 events in a day. Schedule view displays an agenda view that allows browsing all events by swiping vertically. Additionally, the way events are displayed in the agenda view is context-aware. For example, adding an event called "gym" will display the event on a background with a dumbbell. All views except for month view can be split horizontally to display a condensed month view at the top that can be navigated by swiping horizontally. Events can be added from any view by clicking the red plus button that's available at the bottom-right corner of the screen.
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Google tasks do not show on Google Calendar
You can create tasks in your desktop Google Calendar but they will not sync nor show up in your android Google Calendar
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Offers creating events from e-mail messages based on content
Google Calendar integrates with e-mail for quickly creating events from e-mails that contain the word "meeting" or dates or times, or any other information about events or plans that it can understand.
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Setting up non-Google calendars requires accessing web client
There is no ability in the Android app to access other calendars. This limits the usefulness for people that use more than one calendar, such as OSX and iOS users.
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Can set on-screen and e-mail reminder notifications
Google calendar allows setting how many reminders are needed with each having the ability to set how long before the event the notification should remind and if it should be done via on-screen or e-mail notification.
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No weather forecast
The Android app version of Google Calendar does not show any weather forcast information, even if it is added as an extra calendar in the web application. Being that weather is tied into Google Now, the absence is surprising.
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Integrates well with other Google services
Google Calendar is part of the Google ecosystem, it integrates with services like Google Now for creating events, Google Maps for directions and Gmail for pulling information about planned flights.
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Setting up CalDAV or iCAL from other sources is not working or not working well
A lot of people share events between different sources: professional, private, family or friends. Not everybody is on Google and of course a lot of corporations.
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Color-coding for events and calendars
The app will color-code different calendars in different colors as well as allow selecting a different color for each event.
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Month view shows limited information about the event
Month view does not show how many events there are in each given day or color-code them in any way, only informs of their existence.
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Straightforward event creation with autocomplete
All views have an option of adding a new event by tapping the plus sign at the lower right corner of the screen. This opens up a form and allows the user to add a location, start/end times, guests, description, color-code as well as choosing if it's an all day event, how often it repeats, how many and what kind of reminders are needed and setting the users availability and privacy settings.
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Does not work well with Apple / iCloud Calendar
Apple and Google calendars have syncing issues, which is annoying if you want to have shared calendars with friends / family.
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Awesome flairs / images view inside the agenda view / event page
Whenever you enter agenda / event title with the keywords (when available), the event will show up interesting flairs whenever the keyword inside the agenda / title you typed matches the flairs that are available inside the system, examples such as haircut, cycling, swimming, coffee, movie etc.
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Some recurrence options not available
If you want to add a recurring event based on quirky (but normal) calendar rules, it's not supported by Google Calendar. For example, if you set up a financial calendar in Google Calendar and an event falls on a weekend or bank holiday, Google Calendar cannot schedule the occurrence properly. Worse yet, if you submit those calendar occurences via VEVENT details, Google Calendar displays different information if you use the mobile calendar vs. the desktop web calendar.
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Allows subscribing to public calendars through web client
Through the Google Calendar's web client, it is possible to subscribe to any public calendar. Google also maintains a list of public calendars for various sports events and holidays in different countries and for different religions.
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Once you create a event on a Calendar, you can't move to a different Calendar
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Supports non-Google calendars (requires accessing web client)
Google Calendar can be integrated with any calendar that support iCalendar format, including Exchange and iCloud, via URL, but it has to be done using the web client.
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Horizontal Scroll
Does not vertically scroll like ios calendars on outlook calendar.
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Lots of third-party widgets
Google Calendar comes with a home screen widget, and there are also many third party widgets developed for this calendar app.
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Slow syncing of external calendars
Google Calendar is known to sync external calendars very slowly, takes hours if not a full day before the updated events are reflected.
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Advanced functionality available through IFTTT
IFTTT offers over 198 channels to plug into the users Google Calendar.
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No natural language input support
The Android app has no natural language input support, while it's available using the web client and in a limited capacity using Google Now.
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Weak default view
Even if month is set as default view, as soon as you touch a day or an event, you have to carefully select twice to get back to month view.
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Time zone is incorrect no matter what's done
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Timezone for Moscow is incorrect
Timezone for Moscow is 1 hour off. This makes the calendar unusable in Russia.
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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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MPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, or LGPL-3.0
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C++, Java
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