Kolab Now VS LibreOffice

Kolab Now Reviews

LibreOffice Reviews

Kolab Now mentions (3)

• After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel

  Another compromise between self hosting and using "big tech" email providers is to use smaller email providers. I have been using https://kolabnow.com/ for a five years or so and am a happy customer. Of course it's more expensive, has less bells and whistles, etc, but I'm glad I don't have to participate in the surveillance capitalism machine of big email providers. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Google Docs... But the LibreOffice version

  BTW: KolabNow is at https://kolabnow.com . I have no connection to them aside from being a customer for many years. Source: over 2 years ago

• The open calendar, task and note space is a mess

  Likewise, I expected kolab to appear in TFA's list of evaluated options, as I knew it has been around for a while and covered most (all?) of the author's requirements. IIRC it was a key element in Munich's initial 'let's move to GNU/Linux' project, so I imagined it had received a LOT of updates for those few years. The repo [0] looks like it's still getting lots of love. The commercial entity doing much of the... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

LibreOffice mentions (15)

• If I can add a PDF as an object to a Word file without Acrobat?

  Install LibreOffice (https://libreoffice.org) – free. Then open it in Draw and save as PNG or SVG. The latter will give you a vectorial file. Import those files in Word. Source: 5 months ago

• Is libre office free?

  Libre office is open source and free. Ignore the MS store , download it from libreoffice.org. Source: 11 months ago

• What comes to your mind when you hear the words ‘tech abuse’?

  Microsoft Office -- Libreoffice. A customizable free and open source office suite. Source: about 1 year ago

• An explanation of what we're talking about over here

  First, what is a distro? Distro, is short for distribution. A Linux distribution is basically an operating system, with added software (for example LibreOffice. In Linux there are a lot of distributions. This is because each distribution has a different idea on how things should be done. For example: one distribution uses the GNOME desktop, while the other uses KDE/Plasma, for example. There are a lot of ways in... Source: over 1 year ago

• Windows Defender problem

  You either buy a license or resort to solutions like this: Https://libreoffice.org. Source: over 1 year ago