Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

Post by davoneus » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 5:01 PM UTC

kube-system wrote: post #180

louiskottmann wrote: post #167

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That is stretching the subject beyond reasonable. Proprietary software as a general endeavor is not an invalid business and nobody is saying that here. LibreOffice is close enough to Microsoft's offering that surely it makes sense accross the many EU states to stop spending millions on it, and spend a few to close the gap, saving even more millions in the future.

Respectfully, I think it's a bit of a Dunning–Kruger effect for random internet commenters to presume they know what is "close enough" to meet the requirements for the many thousands of different day jobs that people have across the different governments of dozens of different countries. Certainly the people buying software know best what their requirements are.

Post by kube-system » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 5:06 PM UTC

v5v3 wrote: post #174

kube-system wrote: post #151

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Individually, sure. But in an organization, the larger it is, the more probability that all of the features are being used approaches 1. Then you don't have a software issue anymore, you have a business workflow, retraining, or retooling issue.

Most admin staff don't do anything complex aside from writing letters. They don't create complex docs with table of contents and images and so on. I have worked for companies prior who gave basic online office 365 to 99% of staff and then more expensive subscriptions on a as needed basis.

Post by kube-system » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 5:10 PM UTC

davoneus wrote: post #181

kube-system wrote: post #180

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Respectfully, I think it's a bit of a Dunning–Kruger effect for random internet commenters to presume they know what is "close enough" to meet the requirements for the many thousands of different day jobs that people have across the different governments of dozens of different countries. Certainly the people buying software know best what their requirements are.

> Certainly the people buying software know best what their requirements are. I doubt it. The people who are going to use the software are the ones who know what the requirements are. The people buying it should be asking the users, but rarely do.

Post by trelane » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 5:20 PM UTC

udev4096 wrote: post #186

trelane wrote: post #158

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The companies falling to malware and extortion/ransomware would seem to indicate otherwise

What? That is really stupid way to think you're better off using Linux Desktop. Plenty of modern malware versions target pretty much every OS, from windows to mac

Post by timbit42 » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 5:31 PM UTC

BoxOfRain wrote: post #12

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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…