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The only open source mentioned in the post is their encryption. Not the document editing software. OP please remove your change to the article title, it's extremely misleading.
Are they trying to become Google alternative?
Only if they start shutting all their services down if they don't become the world leader within the first 3 years.
Open source ? Does that mean I can host my own ? Would it be compatible with other self hosted instance ?
EDIT: the only source code I found hasn't been maintained for 3 years.
As I've slowly been expanding my homelab, NextCloud caught my attention. I haven't tried it quite yet, but it might be closer to what you're looking for.
Thanks, I'll have a look
If you do want to host your own google docs, look into Onlyoffice, or LibreOffice with Collabora
Doesn't appear you can do anything of that via the Drive mobile app. Maybe one day they will make that possible.
If they can ever get a spreadsheet application I could fully get away from Google for that kind of thing without losing out on anything I care about.
Just tried it out with my proton account. Looks great! It's very simple, but I also like that about it. And of course being private is wonderful.
Simplicity is an underrated feature. I'm really excited to see this come out because I'm becoming a bigger fan of proton every day.
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I like how there seems to be more and more alternatives to MS Office, even from big companies like Google. Best case scenario, this could lead to companies actually starting to use an open format, like ODF, so that all these different office applications can be used without causing issues in the file and that would pave the way for open source alternatives, like LibreOffice or OnlyOffice, to become viable alternatives for a lot more people and companies. Do Google Docs and Proton Drive use/support ODF? I'm pretty sure MS Office supports it.
I wish msoffice would just die a miserable death
Word is a pain in the ass. Resize a table column by 1px and the rest of the document gets absolutely fucked
Excel suffers from similarly frustrating UI issues, but my main problem with it is that it's being used for things that it was never intended to be used for. On the extreme side, a company will shove all their HR info into one xlsx file and then someone will accidentally, somehow unrecoverably, delete it
More commonly, I've had to use it as a progress tracking/ticketing tool. An entire team adding rows, deleting rows, accidentally clearing formulas, highlighting random fucking cells, resizing columns etc. all at the same time. It's just hell.
I feel you on that first part, I always use Markdown nowadays when I don't have to use Word (or LibreOffice Writer in my case), I even use Marp to make presentations with Markdown. Since there's no dragging stuff around and eyeballing if it's actually coherent, it's much quicker, the layout is always perfect and changing the layout doesn't fuck up the entire slide/document.
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Just signed up today for the family plan in my ongoing degoogling process
It's a bit pricey but so far loving it. Specially Proton Pass, coming from bitwarden (which I liked), it's nicer and faster, much faster
Don't put all your eggs in one basket again, that's what makes degoogling such a difficult thing. There's several proton services I intentionally avoid and use alternatives for so I don't have to uproot my entire digital life to leave them if they start being shitty. If you go from using all google services to all proton you're setting yourself up to need the same sort of big migration down the road. 15 years ago google was also an awesome company that kept making incredibly useful things for users just because they could and look at them now.
Maps is what makes degoogling hard ;p
Everything else is pretty straightforward.
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