A German state is moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice

by tamasoma

16 comments
  1. I used Libre products back in 2014 for Uni project and it was terrible, since then using only Google docs.

  2. lol… I love open source products… I’m in tech. Non tech folks will burn your ass to the ground if you don’t have what they know. This is bound to be a mess esp with that document and permissions mgmt

  3. And then comes the Microsoft lobbiest like in Bavaria and all plans go to the bin…

  4. Another episode of the open source community lying to themselves that one of ‘those’ projects will ever succeed.

    Don’t get me wrong, there’s a myriad of scenarios where OS is the right and only path to walk, but implementing libreoffice in a professional environment, topped by a Linux powered os for regular office folk end users has proven to fail since the dawn of Linux.

  5. Atleast a decade back I’ve heard they were doing this in Munich.

  6. I’m excided to see how this works out!
    And I am thrilled to see what distro they are using, I have heard they will maybe land on red hat wich…. would be kinda stupid but also would make sense

  7. Let’s see how that goes, the people that work on those machines are usually very afraid that a button changes because they just memorize work flow but have 0 understanding for anything IT

  8. Let’s see how long they’ll last this time before returning to windows like every other time this was tried before.

  9. Just make end users go back to command lines already then.

  10. STOP. Make ALL states do it, or don’t do it at all. What we need is more interoperability between states to solve our fucking IT mess, not more different systems.

    I love/hate linux and use it as my daily driver, but this fucking federalist mentality kills every effort to get a working IT infrastructure in Germany going.

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