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LibreOffice, I'm not sure it's better than M$Office per se, but it does everything most people need it to.
Chocolatey GUI > Microsoft store
Inkscape, I'm not even sure what the proprietary version is?
Eh, I love FOSS as much as the next guy l, but I still gotta say that LibreOffice (as nice as it is) is still ages behind MS Office, and it's not even close.
The main competitor for Inkscape would be Adobe Illustrator.
Agreed. I too like LibreOffice, but it still has a ways to go. I've shown it to a couple of people and they didn't like it at all. Specifically, they mentioned the cluttered interface and unresponsiveness in some applications like Calc when dealing with massive spreadsheets. And dealing with massive spreadsheets is like half their job.
It's good that LibreOffice exists and it can be a decent replacement for someone writing a simple document every once in a while. I can not take anyone seriously who claims it is anywhere near as good as the MS stuff. Recently I created a presentation in Impress and it was hell on earth. I ran into multiple bugs and handling formatting was just horrid working with the master/template slides (or whatever they are called) was essentially impossible.
Currently working with OnlyOffice which works better by a considerable margin.
Yes, OnlyOffice has been my choice for a while now; not that I need it much anymore, thankfully
With the tabbed interface?
I use libre at home and MS at work, and hands down Libreoffice is terrible in comparison. It's UI is harsh and doesn't do 10% of what microsoft can do. As sad as that is to say.
Back in the early 2000s Open Office was actually better than MS for a brief period, but Libre isn't really on the same level anymore.
You can get all of microsoft 365 for free if you sign up for a developer account
The proprietary version of Inkscape would be Adobe Illustrator, I guess.
Never used it though.