[codethief]

Can someone enlighten me what's been going on in the open-source office application space lately? Here we have LibreOffice and Collabora parting ways; meanwhile NextCloud used to integrate OnlyOffice until v18, then started integrating Collabora in v19 (and also in the recently announced stack for openDesk and "Office EU") but then the other day NextCloud announced they'd fork OnlyOffice to create EuroOffice, … which clearly neither Collabora nor OnlyOffice seem to like?![0]

Please just tell me what the canonical stack is that I'm supposed to use these days. I still have scar tissue from the OwnCloud vs. NextCloud situation…

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/eurooffice_forks_only...

[delfinom]

The EU is unleashing billions of euros to drop US controlled software this year and beyond. This means TDF, Collabora and NextCloud are tripping over themselves to scoop up the funds as non-American Office Software alternatives to Microsoft.

[ndsipa_pomu]

I run NextCloud (dockerised) at home so that I can easily share links with friends and that currently uses OnlyOffice (https://www.onlyoffice.com/). I self-host the OnlyOffice container with its own URL and setup NextCloud to link to that.

To be honest, I never use it, but just set it up as it seemed to be part of a decent NextCloud install.

[Moomoomoo309]

Collabora is the blessed one currently, but you can use either, it supports either one, and you can easily swap them. The EuroOffice image will likely default to OnlyOffice, but NC has not announced any plans of switching that to the default. It could change in the future, but I don't foresee them discontinuing support for either if they have any say in it.