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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

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Post by PcChip »

fock wrote: post #47
mrweasel wrote: post #24

As 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…

yesterday: I saw the weird CVE for M365 which "exploits" some LLM through messaging embedded in emails. today: got a very long email, wanted to search for our department in it. Outlook: "Search is a deprecated feature". Despite all the "but you can't extrapolate to a large org from personal experiences"-FUD around, I think for most orgs (especially governments which are generally far behind on processes) it would be…

Search is a deprecated feature?

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

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Post by thyristan »

vaylian wrote: post #54
rcarmo wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s really not. Edge bundles a number of authentication libraries with the Linux version that enable things like remote passkey support.

What is "remote passkey support"? I am familiar with passkeys (both resident and non-resident). But I haven't heard of remote passkeys yet.

I guess maybe passkeys over some kind of USB/RDP redirection. But searching the internet doesn't yield any useful results. Or maybe something new and proprietary like all those incompatible passkey implementations out there...

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

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Post by lionkor »

gizajob wrote: post #36

For 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$…

Why =SUM(A:1;A:24) when you can "Good morning! What is the sum of the rows 1 through 24? Put the result in row 25 in the same column, and format it as a number, pretty please! :)" -- truly the future of productivity

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

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Post by ahartmetz »

rcbdev wrote: post #9

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.

License fees for a few thousand workplaces of Microsoft can pay for a lot of development on FOSS alternatives instead. There is very little overhead there.

Some things take a lot of work, but many changes that would be useful are pretty easy to make. Crash and bug and (some) performance fixes, time-saving automations and integrations with rough and / or minimal user interfaces and so on.

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

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Post by henriquenunez »

mrweasel wrote: post #24

As 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 agree that the planning does not consider a lot of aspects, but this is not the reason to surrender for big tech. We need more experts and a more sensible plan indeed, that considers the infrastructure, authentication, and so on.

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Post by croes »

mrweasel wrote: post #24

As 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…

Sorry but if you work with Word you can’t complain about a loss of productivity.

People are just accustomed to pain of working with Word.

The change to LibreOffice is way smaller than MSs switch to Ribbon menus

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

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Post by [deleted] »

AdamN wrote: post #44
skinkestek wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I feel reasonably confident that if the focus is on open tooling and sovereignty and not saving money then a shift to Linux can 100% work even at large and complex organizations.

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