Norton's Textra was fun. I still miss FM.COM (From Simtel. Dated back to like 1986. 20k COM file. You wanted to change colors or buffers? You used it to hex edit itself.
If MS Office compatibility is your main goal, you should really look into OnlyOffice before settling on Softmaker.
Its entire core engine is built around OOXML (docx/xlsx), so the formatting retention is miles ahead of LibreOffice. The desktop editors are free and feel very modern. Plus, since this is LES, you can always self-host the OnlyOffice Document Server on one of your idle VPS nodes. 😉
But yeah, if you want absolutely zero friction, that €5 OEM key is hard to beat.
I do like SoftMaker Office, bought mainly because their Excel competitor, PlanMaker, is the only one I've found that does dark mode in a sensible ways while also working well with Norwegian Locale (as in both number formatting and names of Weekdays etc.)
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Norton's Textra was fun. I still miss FM.COM (From Simtel. Dated back to like 1986. 20k COM file. You wanted to change colors or buffers? You used it to hex edit itself.
My pronouns are like/subscribe.
lol.. saw this in my YT feed, viewed it at 1.5x.. and..posting here for old times' sake.
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What old times' sake lol
If MS Office compatibility is your main goal, you should really look into OnlyOffice before settling on Softmaker.
Its entire core engine is built around OOXML (docx/xlsx), so the formatting retention is miles ahead of LibreOffice. The desktop editors are free and feel very modern. Plus, since this is LES, you can always self-host the OnlyOffice Document Server on one of your idle VPS nodes. 😉
But yeah, if you want absolutely zero friction, that €5 OEM key is hard to beat.
I do like SoftMaker Office, bought mainly because their Excel competitor, PlanMaker, is the only one I've found that does dark mode in a sensible ways while also working well with Norwegian Locale (as in both number formatting and names of Weekdays etc.)