I just want a OK spreadsheet experience I can use from the web, and host myself in my home. How does whatever Nextcloud offer for spreadsheets compare to Google Sheets?
As the other comment said, it's basically Libreoffice Calc, so try installing that on your laptop and see if you can get used to it.
My opinion: not as polished as Google Sheets, but good enough. However it's much better than the web version of excel.
Also, your experience will depend on the server your using to run it. Lots of people try to run Nextcloud on very weak hardware to save costs, and it does run well. But office in particular needs a bit more compute and memory to feel fast.
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I just want a OK spreadsheet experience I can use from the web, and host myself in my home. How does whatever Nextcloud offer for spreadsheets compare to Google Sheets?
Nextcloud editors use Collabora Online, which is apparently a fork/derivative of LibreOffice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collabora_Online
As the other comment said, it's basically Libreoffice Calc, so try installing that on your laptop and see if you can get used to it.
My opinion: not as polished as Google Sheets, but good enough. However it's much better than the web version of excel.
Also, your experience will depend on the server your using to run it. Lots of people try to run Nextcloud on very weak hardware to save costs, and it does run well. But office in particular needs a bit more compute and memory to feel fast.