They're surely going to be using SuSe, right?
Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
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Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#12Gosh. Is Linux now ready for the desktop?
KDE + any rolling distro is miles ahead of Windows. So, as a user of both, I read your question with a smirk. 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 th…
I've been using KDE for years now, I've recently put CachyOS with KDE on the new personal machine I just built and I've not been so impressed with a distro in ages. It's rock solid, minimal faff, very fast, and having got back into PC gaming after a long hiatus the playability of Windows games on Linux is amazing now. Even has a really good looking system theme (in my opinion).
I definitely agree LO and particularly its terribly dated UI is a greater barrier to desktop Linux adoption than the desktop environment itself.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#13Gosh. Is Linux now ready for the desktop?
Linux is better than windows nowadays as an OS to work on (also for non programming stuff), imo. Even the enterprise versions of windows are full of crap. For non-enterprise versions (home and pro) I really don't understand how people can put up with MS's total crap like installing candy crash and a ton of bloatware after each major update.
The problem with Linux is the software ecosystem around it, esp security software, office suits, and tons of various specialised software that often target only windows, or at best also macos. But there has been a lot of improvement to that direction last years. I really hope linux takes over work desktop environments, the degree of slop that MS puts into windows is getting more and more over the years. In linux it is infinitely easier to get a machine do what you want once you get to understand some basics wrt how to configure stuff (and now with llms is much less steep curve to get relevant info). In windows you have to constantly dance around whatever horrible UX each version brings upon you.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#14Gosh. Is Linux now ready for the desktop?
KDE + any rolling distro is miles ahead of Windows. So, as a user of both, I read your question with a smirk. 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 th…
…unless you work all day in Excel, which many do.
There is no reasonable substitute or replacement for Excel.
There should be, but there isn’t.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#15Something this article doesn't mention is that this only pertains to the ministry itself, which has like 80 employees, and not its much larger subsidiaries (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen and Danmarks Statistik).
Aarhus and Copenhagen municipalities are planning to do the same, and have around 80000 employees, that's a much bigger deal in my opinion.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#16Until they switch back 3 years from now. And the circus continues.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#17Gosh. Is Linux now ready for the desktop?
KDE + any rolling distro is miles ahead of Windows. So, as a user of both, I read your question with a smirk. 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 th…
I saw KDE a couple of years ago and it was not much better than KDE in 2005. It was visually more impressive, sure.
But what has really happened in the last 2-4 years to make it miles ahead of Windows?
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#18Until they switch back 3 years from now. And the circus continues.
I hope they do the same in Germany and then invest some into maintenance and features based on the saved licencing fees.
You can only do that if you are able to commit to a plan for more than one legislation.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
KDE + any rolling distro is miles ahead of Windows. So, as a user of both, I read your question with a smirk. 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 th…
I saw KDE a couple of years ago and it was not much better than KDE in 2005. It was visually more impressive, sure. But what has really happened in the last 2-4 years to make it miles ahead of Windows?
Windows jumped back multiple miles.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
KDE + any rolling distro is miles ahead of Windows. So, as a user of both, I read your question with a smirk. 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 th…
I saw KDE a couple of years ago and it was not much better than KDE in 2005. It was visually more impressive, sure. But what has really happened in the last 2-4 years to make it miles ahead of Windows?
Windows got worse