Hello everyone i'm jacob calif and i'm the nerd of the street and today we're taking a look at WPS office for linux Music alright everyone so WPS office emailed me asking me to take a look at their product they did not offer me any money they basically asked me to make a video in exchange for them posting it to their blog and I almost said no because WPS office is not open-source the disparate Airi and on this channel I like to prioritize open source software however I thought about it some more and even though WPS is proprietary I have heard quite a few people especially newer Linux users on distributions like Ubuntu who use WPS I've heard people saying that it works great for them on forums online and I've personally never used it much myself I tried it back when it was still called Kingsoft office which was years ago and it is good to know what the competition is doing even if you're a LibreOffice user it's good to be aware that WPS is out there so that when you're talking to people who use it you know how it stacks up so with that in mind today we're gonna be taking a look at WPS office and we'll see if they do share this video with their blog and social media pages I'm going to try to be fair to the software basically we're gonna open up a couple of documents that I've created in LibreOffice recently and we're going to recreate those in WPS and we're gonna look at how the user interface feels and how easy it is to do the things that I normally do in documents so that's it pretty simple and with that I'll cut to the desktop alright guys and here we are on the desktop so I'm going to go ahead and open up WPS writer here to start with this is the word processing software as you can see when we first open up the program we get sort of a welcome screen it's going to list recently open the documents which of course I don't have any because like I said I don't normally use WPS but we do have options to create a new document or open documents here by the way I was having a little bit of an issue with the dark theme on my system making the dialog boxes in this program unreadable I will just show you real quick I fixed those by going to the application executable path and adding two items to it first I added an environment variable here gtk to our C files equals user share themes add weight at gtk 2.0 GT KRC I added that environment variable right before the name of the executable for each program and then after the name of the executable I added this - style equals gtk+ those two options in your executable command.