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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
#32As many IT people in Denmark is pointing out, it's not really about replacing Office and Windows, it's all the surrounding infrastructure that will be the main issue. Are these Linux machines going to authenticate against the Azure Active Directory, maybe just a local Active Directory, or are the IT department going to run a separate service in parallel? Are they moving away from Exchange Server... probably not, give…
> They'll just force the students out of the relatively protected Google Workspace for Students, into the "real" Google/Gmail ecosystems where they are less protected against data mining
What? This sounds like there is an observable way of telling that there's different levels of data mining going on in these two spaces, mind sharing the evidence?
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#33As many IT people in Denmark is pointing out, it's not really about replacing Office and Windows, it's all the surrounding infrastructure that will be the main issue. Are these Linux machines going to authenticate against the Azure Active Directory, maybe just a local Active Directory, or are the IT department going to run a separate service in parallel? Are they moving away from Exchange Server... probably not, give…
I'm currently working at a large public institution in Norway.
Half the team runs Linux, and the only real constraint is using Edge for SSO. (Firefox works too - you just have to actually log in like it's 2008.)
Honestly, everything else runs smoother than what my Windows-using teammates are dealing with.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#34As many IT people in Denmark is pointing out, it's not really about replacing Office and Windows, it's all the surrounding infrastructure that will be the main issue. Are these Linux machines going to authenticate against the Azure Active Directory, maybe just a local Active Directory, or are the IT department going to run a separate service in parallel? Are they moving away from Exchange Server... probably not, give…
I'm currently working at a large public institution in Norway. Half the team runs Linux, and the only real constraint is using Edge for SSO. (Firefox works too - you just have to actually log in like it's 2008.) Honestly, everything else runs smoother than what my Windows-using teammates are dealing with.
That is probably just a setting missing from your Firefox profile that allows your company Kerberos realm/domain. If your institution hasn't locked down your Firefox config, you can fix this yourself: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#35Somebody tell the Danish legal team that Tritium (https://tritium.legal) runs on Linux :).
I said it on the prior thread, and I think it's worth reiterating: Politics aside, Microsoft has such a strangle hold on so many industries it's insane. That reach is just extending with copilot + OpenAI and Azure. The next few years could be bleak if it plays the way MSFT is trying to push it. Good for Denmark.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#36For any of their finance or planning people using Excel as a daily driver, the productivity lost will far outweigh any financial or ethical gains.
We’re also at the cusp of AI getting added throughout MS Office and Windows which will be the next driver of productivity and collaboration, and it’ll be at least a decade before Libreoffice catches up.
Saying this as a believer in open source and with no great love for M$. It’s just not 1997 any more.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#37As many IT people in Denmark is pointing out, it's not really about replacing Office and Windows, it's all the surrounding infrastructure that will be the main issue. Are these Linux machines going to authenticate against the Azure Active Directory, maybe just a local Active Directory, or are the IT department going to run a separate service in parallel? Are they moving away from Exchange Server... probably not, give…
> They'll just force the students out of the relatively protected Google Workspace for Students, into the "real" Google/Gmail ecosystems where they are less protected against data mining What? This sounds like there is an observable way of telling that there's different levels of data mining going on in these two spaces, mind sharing the evidence?
There is no data mining/profiling in Googles educational offering (also no ads, which there is in regular Gmail):
> Google Workspace for Education Core Services (like Gmail, Google Calendar, Classroom, and more) have no ads, and student information in Core Services is never used to create profiles for ad targeting, or sold to third parties.[1]
1) https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/our-values/privacy-securi...
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#38As many IT people in Denmark is pointing out, it's not really about replacing Office and Windows, it's all the surrounding infrastructure that will be the main issue. Are these Linux machines going to authenticate against the Azure Active Directory, maybe just a local Active Directory, or are the IT department going to run a separate service in parallel? Are they moving away from Exchange Server... probably not, give…
I hope all employees will use their experience to make a success of this project. Switching to Linux and ditching Micro$oft should be priority of each European country.
I hope so too, but I fear that the implementation is rushed and won't yield the positive results it could have.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#39As many IT people in Denmark is pointing out, it's not really about replacing Office and Windows, it's all the surrounding infrastructure that will be the main issue. Are these Linux machines going to authenticate against the Azure Active Directory, maybe just a local Active Directory, or are the IT department going to run a separate service in parallel? Are they moving away from Exchange Server... probably not, give…
I'm currently working at a large public institution in Norway. Half the team runs Linux, and the only real constraint is using Edge for SSO. (Firefox works too - you just have to actually log in like it's 2008.) Honestly, everything else runs smoother than what my Windows-using teammates are dealing with.
> using Edge for SSO
May I ask what that SSO solution is? Because it sounds like it might be a Microsoft product.
Re: Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice
#40What, again?