LibreOffice vs WPS Office‎

It's not fully compatible with MSOffice and often breaks documents.

If you need to use Base, it requires Java.

It's a large office package that needs a lot of drive space and system memory.

Good luck turning off autocorrect, because the place where the documentation says that option is doesn't exist.

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.

Consistently crashes while editing. Absolutely unreliable.

Since it is written in Java it does not integrate nicely with the operation systems theme, icons or dialogs.

Ungly interface compared to others office solutions, like WPS office.

It does not work with custom themes due to all the different wrappers involved.

Quickstart was removed from the Linux application. Now every time you open a file it will take at least 2,5 seconds to open.

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.

LibreOffice uses a more restrictive license than OpenOffice, which makes it almost impossible to backport features to OpenOffice.

No ability to access trading and brokerage accounts via Calc to conduct automatic buying/selling like you can in MS Excel.

As of version 6, the master slide management is not as good as PowerPoint in Windows.

Might be a security problem for some end-users.

Although some versions/programs are free to download, they're all proprietary licenses utilizing a freeware model.

Problematic with 4K screens.

Equation editor for Linux has been "under development" for several years with no real additional info from the developers. Safe to say it's just not going to happen. No equation editor is a deal breaker for some, which is a shame. Otherwise this office suite performs very well.

WPS Office does not support importing or exporting OpenDocument Format, the default file format of LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

A .deb file is offered, but missing fonts can be a problem.

Lack of hyphenation in Writer is a terrible mistake. Reading the few forums about it will let you know that it breaks the words without rules and without hyphens in any language. The question was stated in 2013 and still doesn't have an answer. Their help system practically doesn't exist, everything leads you to a 404 page. Maybe this issue could be easily resolved by developers with a plugin or something like that, but the Linux community doesn't show interest for the product.

There are in-app ads.

WPS has software for word-processing, spreadsheets and presentations. No tools for database management, note-taking, graphics, etc.

I looks like there is a splash screen, but it doesn't appear until just before the full interface loads, which can be about 20 seconds. It is often slow enough to cause the user to click again and again, resulting in the app loading multiple times in succession.

Each of the apps in the suite has a .desktop configuration file that is created at first launch and remains thereafter. Removal results in re-creation.

In my testing of office suites for Linux, WPS Office was not as comprehensive as LibreOffice, and the resemblance to Microsoft 365 applications was better in OnlyOffice Desktop Editors. Moreover, Linux users can also access the online applications of Microsoft 365 via Google Chrome or other web browsers.