German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

Post by deaddodo » Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 1:46 AM UTC

CRConrad wrote: post #379

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> Does MS provide SLAs? Are there no suppliers who will provide similar SLAs for FOSS software? Gotta love how internet commentators feel like picking a statement apart in isolation somehow validates their point. Yes, they offer SLAs and have full control of their software and its release cycle. So can offer guarantees and stand by them. > That puzzles me. How can you have more control over proprietary software than…

> It means that they aren't at the whims of a community who decides to abandon projects willy-nilly or replace them with brand new implementations at the drop of a hat. Yeah, because only the Open Source community ever does that. Corporations never do... /s (The "Google Graveyard" site is famous, but wasn't there one for Microsoft too? I want my Microsoft Bob to be maintained, dammit!) ETA: > The fact that people con…

Post by CRConrad » Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 6:17 AM UTC

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Probably lower then people think once the applications are identical across the two platform. and if Linux turns too complex there is always macos. The big push is going to be getting rid of old excel and word macro's and replace sharepoint/onedrive with something else as data migrations are newer as simple in reality as they look in theory.

> and if Linux turns too complex there is always macos I have witnessed in person people switching from Windows to macOS have issues adapting to a different operating system and its concepts, like the fact that pressing the X button in the top-left corner doesn't close the application. Therefore I am rather skeptical that you can just throw some Linux distro at a bunch of novice computer users without large amounts o…

Post by CRConrad » Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 6:55 AM UTC

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I have nothing against Linux or libreoffice. I just think forcing thousands of workers to drastically alter their work environment is going to be traumatic and I’ll lay odds that in 12 months they switch back or to a hybrid model.

Or what’s just as likely, workers will use personal Windows computers to do their work and shuffle things onto their work computers as needed. People don’t like change.

Post by CRConrad » Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 6:58 AM UTC

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and yet thats only ever brought up when defending windows despite the fact that MS is cauing this kind o issues every 3-5 years. So how is it that people can go from XP->vista->10->11 and not break the bank on retraining or from windows to MacOS but somehow anything else is impossible. This is not an logically coherent argument against linux it's basically admins being scared of having their decades of investment int…

Do you know how many Excel apps run in windows shops. Windows isn’t dying anytime soon.

Post by CRConrad » Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 7:06 AM UTC

deaddodo wrote: post #392

CRConrad wrote: post #379

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> It means that they aren't at the whims of a community who decides to abandon projects willy-nilly or replace them with brand new implementations at the drop of a hat. Yeah, because only the Open Source community ever does that. Corporations never do... /s (The "Google Graveyard" site is famous, but wasn't there one for Microsoft too? I want my Microsoft Bob to be maintained, dammit!) ETA: > The fact that people con…

You forgot to quote this part: > Gotta love how internet commentators feel like picking a statement apart in isolation somehow validates their point.