FreeOffice, Alternative For Microsoft Office, Full Fitur With Ribbon UI

FreeOffice is a free office application that you can use as an alternative microsoft office. Freeoffice is made by Softmaker company located in German country. In the latest release of FreeOffice 2018, it now fully supports Microsoft Office files. You can edit Microsoft Office files in FreeOffice easily. Not only that, FreeOffice also supports the ODT (Open Document Format). Which is the standard LibreOffice format.

You might be looking for a free Microsoft Office alternative office app. FreeOffice can be one of the best choices for you as a replacement for Microsoft Office. In addition to fully supporting Microsoft Office files, FreeOffice also has a similar look to Microsoft Office with the Ribbon UI theme.

Previously, Softmaker FreeOffice only available installation files for Windows. A few months ago (February 2018) Softmaker released FreeOfficee Linux. Now, Linux distro users can download FreeOffice installation files to install on your Linux system.

Install FreeOffice In Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, ...

Users of Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian and derivative distributions. Can install Softmaker FreeOffice in a fairly easy way.

• First visit the website freeoffice.com
• Then fill in the registration field for Name, Country and Email
• After that, click on download button "FreeOffie For Linux"
• Select the appropriate file package for your Linux distribution, choose "package for DEB-Based system". Available for 32-bit and 64-bit systems, please select the appropriate type of computer operating system you are using
• Install FreeOffice by running the downloaded file (softmaker-freeoffice.deb) using the Gdebi Package Installer. Or you can also install DEB packages using text commands via Linux terminal.

Install the DEB package via Linux terminal: Open the location where the .deb file is stored using the file manager application (nautilus, nemo, caja, etc.). Right click and select "Open in terminal". After that, type the text command sudo dpkg -i filename.deb, for example: type the command text sudo dpkg -i softmaker-freeoffice.deb

To find out which system you are using 32 bit or 64 bit, open Linux terminal then type lscpu text command. Look at the "Architecture" section, there you see the type of computer operating system you are using.

Architecture:          x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit

*x86_64 = 64 Bit

Running FreeOffice for the first time

The first time you run FreeOffice, you will see the "user interface settings" view to select FreeOffice theme. There are two types of themes: Ribbon UI and Classic, each of which has two theme variants.

After that, you will be prompted to enter "product key" to unlock FreeOffice. Now, open the email you used for registration when downloading FreeOffice. You will receive incoming email from Softmaker FreeOffice, there you will find "product key" FreeOffice.

Enter "product key" in the available field and after that you will enter the FreeOffice start page. However, before that, you will see the window "user info". You can fill in any available fields or just ignore them, you can do them later.

Now you can use Softmaker FreeOffice to create and edit various document files you have.

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How To Install Themes On Cinnamon Desktop Environment

Linux Mint is one of the most famous Linux distros in the world that use Ubuntu and Debian base system. Linux Mint uses several desktop environments, including Cinnamon, Mate, Xfce and KDE. Cinnamon is the default desktop environment on Linux Mint. Cinnamon created and developed by the team of Linux Mint developers. and now, Cinnamon is widely available in many other Linux distros, including Ubuntu and Debian.

Cinnamon has many interesting themes that you can choose to beautify the look of Cinnamon desktop environment. You can add Cinnamon themes via theme settings or manually. If you choose to install themes manually, you can download the Cinnamon theme on cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com, opendesktop.org or other website providing theme Cinnamon.

How To Install Themes On Cinnamon Desktop Environment

Installing Cinnamon themes is not a difficult thing, you can certainly do it easily. just a few steps, you can install Cinnamon theme on Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Debian or other Linux distro.

1. First Way

Installing a desktop Cinnamon themes using Themes Settings is the easiest way. you can add Cinnamon theme at will.

• First open Cinnamon Themes Settings, click Menu > Preferences > Themes
• In the themes settings, select the add /remove menu tab
• A message will appear to update cache, click "yes"
• In the add /remove menu tab select the theme you want to install, click on the install button to start the theme installation process
• Wait until the process of installing the theme is complete, after that, you can use themes through the Themes > Desktop

2. Second Way

You might prefer to install the Cinnamon theme manually. It's not difficult, just a few steps, you can install the Cinnamon theme manually. Especially for Cinnamon themes that you do not get on cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com website.

• First download the Cinnamon theme on the website that provides it, for example: cinnamon-spices, opendesktop.org or others
• Usually the downloaded file is a compressed file, extract the file, copy & paste the extracted folder in the /.themes directory (use Ctrl + H key to display hidden files) or copy & paste themes in /usr/share/themes (as root )
• You have successfully installed Cinnamon theme, now, open themes settings to apply Cinnamon theme you just added.

Change The Cinnamon Themes

After adding some Cinnamon themes, you can change theme of Cinnamon through theme setting.

• First open Cinnamon theme settings, click Menu > Preferences > Themes
• In the Cinnamon settings window Choose a desktop theme
• Will see a list of Cinnamon themes that have been installed
• choose one of the themes you like

That's How To Install Themes On Cinnamon Desktop Environment, Linux Mint or other Linux distro on Cinnamon desktop environment.

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