GridCraft is the open-source Excel clone for Linux I’ve been waiting for
Source: ZDNet ·
If spreadsheets are your thing, but Microsoft Office isn’t, you might want to give the open-source clone, GridCraft, a try.
From the source
ArtCraft, the development team behind PhotoCraft (and a number of other similar apps) reverse-engineered yet another de facto standard app: GridCraft, meant to mimic Microsoft Excel. ArtCraft’s collection is an important step forward for open source and the Linux operating system because some of the apps they’ve built have long been considered roadblocks to user adoption of Linux. With apps like WordCraft , DeckCraft , and PDFCraft now available, those roadblocks go away. Time will tell, but these apps seem like a big step forward for Linux and open-source to me. Also: I tried the free Adobe Premiere clone on Linux – and DaVinci Resolve has competition Although the developers say that these apps are 1:1 replacements for the original apps, that’s not 100% accurate, and my experience with GridCraft confirms that. They are also all in the alpha stages of development, so I wouldn’t advise anyone to use them in a production environment. You might be thinking that this is simply a…