Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by pimterry » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:12 PM UTC

Running a Law Firm on Linux
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Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by blodkorv » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:43 PM UTC

So what distro and DE are they using?

Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by ginko » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:48 PM UTC

blodkorv wrote: post #2

So what distro and DE are they using?

The screens in the photo say Debian.

Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by laumars » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:49 PM UTC

blodkorv wrote: post #2

So what distro and DE are they using?

The distro is mentioned several times throughout the article and even featured in the screenshots: Debian.

I didn’t spot the DE but I might have missed it because I largely skimmed the article.

Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by clircle » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:50 PM UTC

Word, powerpoint, Teams... can't all these just run in the browser now? Why futz with Libreoffice?

Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by ciurca » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:51 PM UTC

I was thinking about Windows/macOS being the standard choice for most folks. Nowadays, people that mainly use the browser for their work/life stuff could just use some Linux distro like Ubuntu. The standard choice for standard people should probably become an easy to use Linux distro.

Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by elchief » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:52 PM UTC

IIRC, UNIX started at Bell Labs as a legal document processing system. However, this was just an excuse for Ritchie to work on a game he liked on Multics

Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by proxysna » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:54 PM UTC

I remember reading something like that a few years back on Reddit. I always was a bit confused why would office tasks require a windows installation with office on it until i saw how unnecessarily tightly some tasks and tools are coupled with microsoft stack.

Found the post i saw. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9cxwhy/i_am_a_lawyer...

Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by luke2m » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:56 PM UTC

ciurca wrote: post #6

I was thinking about Windows/macOS being the standard choice for most folks. Nowadays, people that mainly use the browser for their work/life stuff could just use some Linux distro like Ubuntu. The standard choice for standard people should probably become an easy to use Linux distro.

> The standard choice for standard people should probably become an easy to use Linux distro.

More and more, it is becoming exactly that with Chrome OS.

Re: Running a Law Firm on Linux

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Post by 8K832d7tNmiQ » Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 2:56 PM UTC

> Screensharing can be a bit iffy, but I don't need to do this often, thankfully. And, if I switch from Wayland to X11, even if just for that session, I expect it will work better.

I don't know about other chromium browsers, but you can do it on wayland compositor by enabling "WebRTC PipeWire support" flag on edge chromium.