The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice

Post by myaccountonhn » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 4:33 PM UTC

dkga wrote: post #54

mike_hearn wrote: post #26

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They give up and switch to Windows (again). The highest profile was in Munich where they did migrate >10,000 desktops to Linux and OpenOffice, but eventually they migrated back to Windows and Office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux Lower Saxony: https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-scores-a-win-over-linu... Vienna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wienux Note that even when these projects succeed, the software user…

Speaking completely off the cuff here, but I suspect that as government applications move to be web-based, perhaps there could be another wave of Linux adoption since all it would take essentially is a functioning browser.

Post by koakuma-chan » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 4:39 PM UTC

mrtksn wrote: post #111

lordnacho wrote: post #13

Talking to my Danish friends, and I have a fair few in tech, the country is owned by Microsoft. A lot of code jobs are c# on Azure, and all the office people use Excel. This is a welcome change. I've thought for a long time, why would your average office worker even need to pay MS for their desktop OS when so many things could just be done on the web? And why develop a bunch of stuff on a proprietary platform when yo…

It’s the same everywhere, that’s why Bill Gates is so rich :) If you ever tried to use anything else than Word & Excel to interact with people who are using Word & Excel , chances are that you encountered problems like wrong encoding files, that don’t open, files that open, but look incomplete, problems with alignment, etc. There’s so much friction that it’s not worth bothering. unfortunately, the proprietary softwar…

Post by DougN7 » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

myaccountonhn wrote: post #126

vladvasiliu wrote: post #110

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I entirely agree with you, but I'm at a loss as to how we might improve things. People just don't seem to care, just like they didn't seem to care to understand how machinery used to work. They know that they should press this button and expect that outcome.

We teach reading in school. I think the same could be done now for tech literacy. It was pointless to try something like that before because the older generation was usually less tech literate than the kids. But these days tech literacy is dropping (and with AI, probably even more so), so it might be that the older generation could actually teach it.

Post by cjblomqvist » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 5:25 PM UTC

pieds wrote: post #40

lordnacho wrote: post #13

Talking to my Danish friends, and I have a fair few in tech, the country is owned by Microsoft. A lot of code jobs are c# on Azure, and all the office people use Excel. This is a welcome change. I've thought for a long time, why would your average office worker even need to pay MS for their desktop OS when so many things could just be done on the web? And why develop a bunch of stuff on a proprietary platform when yo…

They don't have the capacity. The opinion you present is actually part of the narrative you are seemingly against. That you can compete with big tech if you just want to. And you "can" compete with big tech, but it isn't actually possible. Because the right pre-requisites, environment and priorities doesn't exist. Not in Europe, not in much of the US and not in much of the world. The European companies the would (or…

Post by extraduder_ire » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 8:39 PM UTC

lordofgibbons wrote: post #10

I wish there was a fund we could pool money into to make LibreOffice less ugly to look at. I'll happily donate to the cause.