Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

If you would ask if LibreOffice is ready, I would say: yes and no. The UX of LO is worse than MS Office. LO is more feature rich in certain areas but it lacks the UX if you want to get a well-looking document with a minimum amount of work. Case in point: lack of acceptable Impress templates (they look from the year 1994), lack of document themes in Writer, lack of quick table style in Calc.

The UX/UI is in dire need for attention.

Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

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Post by reacharavindh » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 9:53 AM UTC

The companies and Government offices in Denmark are heavily entrenched in Microsoft ecosystem as I remember from a few years ago. The amount of money they would be spending in license costs!

It is 2025, couldn’t we get away with using cheaper/even free(and or open source) online versions of office software?

I don’t even have MS Office installed on my personal computer. When I need to deal with .docs or .xlsx files, I either use Google docs or Libre Office if it is too complicated for Google Docs.

Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

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Post by rcbdev » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 9:55 AM UTC

The Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice has been on LibreOffice for many years now, with the Austrian Federal Computing Center developing extensions specifically for their use-cases.

This is a great trend. I wonder how long until Microsoft's Ballmer-type people fly into Munich again to commit corruption / lobbying.

Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

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Post by UK-Al05 » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 9:55 AM UTC

This is normally a strategy to negotiate lower prices with microsoft. After awhile things go back to normal.