German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by raxxorrax on Thursday November 18, 2021 @07:46AM (#29264787)

Awesome. I know how people in offices work and for their use cases LibreOffice has become the safer and more fitting choice.

Yes, MS Office isn't bad and I wouldn't pull Excel from the dead hands of physicists, but the whole MS cloud deal is bad for government.

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by ginko on Thursday November 18, 2021 @08:20AM (#29265043)

> I wouldn't pull Excel from the dead hands of physicists

Accountants I understand but physicists? I'd have thought they mostly use Matlab or maybe Mathematica.

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by valenaut on Thursday November 18, 2021 @09:04AM (#29265473)

My physics undergrad had about equal parts Mathematica (for theoretical subjects), MATLAB (for engineering crossover), Python (for CS), and Excel (for labs).

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by raxxorrax on Thursday November 18, 2021 @08:26AM (#29265099)

That too, but many aren't firm with such tools and Excel is very prominently used. They often employ special software (I mostly worked with them on optical systems) that use Excel as a common output format for visualization. Don't know the name of their simulators.

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by ahartmetz on Thursday November 18, 2021 @08:41AM (#29265226)

And / or Jupyter Notebook

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