Hi, I K here. One of the main gotchas for people switching to Linux on the desktop is the lack of Microsoft Office on the OS. However, today we are going to look at some alternatives to it. Currently the major Office Suite is available for the Linux desktop. Our library office, soft maker office, WPS office and only office. And these are the ones I am going to look at today. I am not going to look at Caligra office because it seems to be un maintained. The same goes with no office which includes AB Word and numeric. Though you are free to try them out if you wish to. I am also not going to look at open office which is practically redundant by now. It has almost been fully replaced by library office. First up we have library office. Library office is the most open of the bunch. It is open source, its development is done online and publicly and the community is a big part of the office suite. It is by far the most feature reach office suite from the ones we are looking at today and also the most extendable. However, library office is compatibility with the proprietary file formats of MS Office which is supposed to be an open standard but it is anything but. Support for reform acts is still frankly suboptimal. They are trying to improve it and the compatibility has increased by leaps and bounds in the previous few years. But I still wouldn't trust it on mission critical issues just yet. A frequent complaint about library office is its dated look and feel. However, the inclusion of a ribbon toolbar and a prompt to switch the user interface on the first run puts the office suite as the most highly recommended office suite but in this list by me. Next up we have only office. Only office is a comparative newcomer on the office suite suite. It was initially developed as an office suite to be run on a browser and its desktop app is still an electronic app in this guys. It also has a server version available for using web browsers and it is where it gets its main business. Only office has somewhat better compatibility with MS Office files as it was designed to be compatible with them from the ground up. But it is still noticeable slower than the other office suite because it is based on electron and it has far less advanced features. But if you want something basic which looks and feels like MS Office, only office is the way to go. Next up we have soft maker office. Soft maker office is a paid and proprietary office suite but by my experience it has by far the highest compatibility with MS Office files and it looks and feels quite similar as well. It also has a free but less featured version named free office. If you want something that just works and don't care about open source and are willing to shell out some money. Soft maker office is the absolute best choice. Even their free office variant is honestly pretty good. WPS office is another proprietary office suite with a free version available. Their free version however is locked down and adds supported. WPS office however is Chinese software and is therefore not applicable to the GDPR or any other privacy rules except for those in China. So I would recommend using it as a flat pack with networking disabled adjusting case. Compatibility wise the WPS office over somewhere in between only office and soft maker. It has quite good compatibility but it has font issues and rendering issues and editing issues. So if you really need good Chinese support for some reason, the WPS may be what you are looking for otherwise you would probably be better off with one of the other office suites. I also did some scientific testing on the different features available in all the office suites in the writer and the presentation software. I personally don't have much experience with spreadsheets so I only tested the basic stuff but if you have some specific needs it would be better if you test out these software by yourselves. Some notable points are that only office does not support animations and it has only some basic transitions like fade and swipe and the files exported with soft maker office are not very compatible with the other office suites especially library office. I have details made. Detail each feature which I tested and they are on their screen now. So you can pause the video and check for both the writer and the presentation details. Another thing I noticed is that the WPS office has terrible font support. It does not get the fonts from the PC. It does not know where it gets the fonts from. It does not get most of them. So it has very bad font substitution. It should clearly be some set of fonts and all that. I have attached the sample files which are used to test all the four office suites in the description so you can check these out for yourselves. It has much more details. I am not going to go into much details but basically soft maker has somewhat ok export quality as in its files are somewhat compatible with the other office suites. Library office is export quality is much better. Only office live somewhere in between it has less features but its export quality is great and WPS has great export quality but its import quality is very bad which makes it which hinders it from being one of the better office suites in my opinion. And that's it for this video. If you like this video please like share and subscribe and share it with everyone. Bye.