LibreOffice vs ONLYOFFICE on Linux — The Difference That Actually Matters Is the Document Engine, Not the Feature List
Linux daily driver series · Part 2 LibreOffice vs ONLYOFFICE on Linux — The Difference That Actually Matters Is the Document Engine, Not the Feature List A real-world finding from switching to CachyOS as a daily driver: why one suite broke header images and the other didn't — and what that reveals about cross-platform document compatibility on Linux. Context This is a follow-up to the first article in this series , which covered a three-iteration Windows → Linux migration on a custom desktop PC. Once CachyOS was running as a daily driver, one of the first practical questions was which office suite to use. The answer turned out to be more architecturally interesting than expected. The standard advice for office suites on Linux is "use LibreOffice — it's mature, it's free, it's in every distro's repository." That advice isn't wrong. But it turns out to be incomplete in a way that matters a great deal if your documents r...