Opening ONLYOFFICE and using it for one minute, to me it's immediately better than LibreOffice. This is the first FOSS Office I may actually desire to use when I have to do some document writing.
It has a better default font, a much nicer, comfortable-feeling and inviting-to-use interface, and it saves to a more useful format like DOCX by default.
LibreOffice puzzles me as to why they choose such bad-looking defaults when the options are there to make it better.
My perspective is one that matters in FOSS. This is not just about advanced technical things with power users. It's about casual users too. It's about Linux having something actually comparable to MS Word. It's about the entire FOSS ecosystem.
If LibreOffice want their software to be used more, then they need to make it actually look and feel good - out of the box - and not just as a configurable option.
I mean this with the greatest respect. I'm a FOSS advocate. Part of furthering FOSS should be that it looks and feels nice, and not just that it's FOSS with a GPL license.
Ehhh, kind-of. I'd put a HUGE asterisk on that, as you need to A) dig through the settings and tick a vague scary "ENABLE EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES" checkbox, then B) apply a random style called "Notebookbar" to get the ribbon UI.
Fine, if you're a linux tinkerer, go nuts. If you are trying to find a FOSS option for your parents, you are a literary (but not a technical) professional, or you want to keep your tech and writing work in different silos, ONLYOFFICE seems much, much better at this moment.