I always wondered why institutions don’t always use linux – it’s money saved.
Obly problen with Libreoffice is the formatting of .docx files gets screwed up.
Jahr of the Linux desktop.
To find out the public servants cant use it and are incapable of learning something new after a month and roll it back again …
(probably)
They tried that before in Bavaria as far as I remember and it did not work out so well. Microsoft then proceeded to offer them Office for free for some time and they switched back.
A lot of people are deeply unflexible when it comes to applications and operating systems. Never underestimate the cost a change may result in when it comes to people.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
long live richard stallman
I really hope they put some money back into the development and betterment of Linux and the related applications
They should talk to Munich first. The city spent a shitload of money switching everything from Windows to Linux. The project started in 2003, finished in 2013 and 4 years later they decided to switch back to Windows.
Regardless of my love of Linux, Microsoft Office is an order of magnitude better than LibreOffice.
Good luck transitioning from Excel to Calc, that sounds like my worst nightmare
In previous decades they wound have had a little visit from a local MS briefcase man and shortly announce that they will forgo the switch to linux, but in post Balmer days MS has gone soft and lost their mafia methods.
* Full time IT who enjoy the command line.
* People who don’t need their pc for much and would be just fine with something like only Chrome OS for browsing and maybe email.
The majority of employees will fall in between these 2 groups and will need more from Linux than it can easily offer, but won’t be able to get it out of it.
There is a large group of people who are smart enough to be productive in Windows but won’t be able to get productive in Linux.
So Microsoft is going to relocate their office from Munich to Kiel now?
And if someone does not get the reference: Microsoft moved their central German office to Munich during the time Limux was getting lots of backlash from new newly elected city council, which canceled the project at the end.
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I always wondered why institutions don’t always use linux – it’s money saved.
Obly problen with Libreoffice is the formatting of .docx files gets screwed up.
Jahr of the Linux desktop.
To find out the public servants cant use it and are incapable of learning something new after a month and roll it back again …
(probably)
They tried that before in Bavaria as far as I remember and it did not work out so well. Microsoft then proceeded to offer them Office for free for some time and they switched back.
A lot of people are deeply unflexible when it comes to applications and operating systems. Never underestimate the cost a change may result in when it comes to people.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
long live richard stallman
I really hope they put some money back into the development and betterment of Linux and the related applications
They should talk to Munich first. The city spent a shitload of money switching everything from Windows to Linux. The project started in 2003, finished in 2013 and 4 years later they decided to switch back to Windows.
Regardless of my love of Linux, Microsoft Office is an order of magnitude better than LibreOffice.
Good luck transitioning from Excel to Calc, that sounds like my worst nightmare
In previous decades they wound have had a little visit from a local MS briefcase man and shortly announce that they will forgo the switch to linux, but in post Balmer days MS has gone soft and lost their mafia methods.
Again? Big failure last time.
Already failed once:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
This will fail. Linux is fine for 2 groups:
* Full time IT who enjoy the command line.
* People who don’t need their pc for much and would be just fine with something like only Chrome OS for browsing and maybe email.
The majority of employees will fall in between these 2 groups and will need more from Linux than it can easily offer, but won’t be able to get it out of it.
There is a large group of people who are smart enough to be productive in Windows but won’t be able to get productive in Linux.
So Microsoft is going to relocate their office from Munich to Kiel now?
And if someone does not get the reference: Microsoft moved their central German office to Munich during the time Limux was getting lots of backlash from new newly elected city council, which canceled the project at the end.
https://news.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-deutschland-bezieht-neue-unternehmenszentrale-in-munchen-schwabing/
If they are changing because it is better for them, they’ll do fine…
If they are changing to save money, they’ll probably repent…
My 0.02€ !