German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by heurisko on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:17AM (#29266355)

My favourite desktop is the Unity desktop by Canonical, which used to be the old Ubuntu desktop.

I felt like I could tell they were building it for actual users. There were things like the corner pixels activating logout, so you could just drag your mouse straight to the corner of the screen.

It also ran well on old hardware.

Ubuntu moving to the Gnome interface again was a step back in my opinion, but it shows what can be done if there is a business with a clear vision.

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by bubblethink on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:24AM (#29266459)

Ditto. Unity still works but is increasingly broken and will never work on wayland. However, kde plasma can be made to work like like unity. I recently went through this exercise a couple of days ago, and I think I'll be able to manage with plasma once unity dies.

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by zeppelin101 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:19PM (#29268637)

I quite liked Unity, myself, but I recall that the Linux community was very upset and vocal at Canonical for having ditched Gnome. It's really hard to please everyone.

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