Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by oblio on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:47AM
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> Very few people actually need the full might of Excel
How's the groupware situation on Linux? Mail, calendars, adding shared meeting rooms, etc.
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by sofixa on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:02AM
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On Linux you can use a number of thick or web clients for any sort of groupware - Exchange, Office 365, OnlyOffice, Nextcloud, Collabora, Zoho something?
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by silisili on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:50AM
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I used Evolution for years, and it worked really well.
Anymore I just keep Outlook web open in a web browser though. Not because Evolution is lacking, I just didn't really see the point in setting it up anymore.
Outlook is a dumpster fire, and there are perfectly fine alternatives. Very few people actually need the full might of Excel, and you can always RemoteApp it to them, and have the rest use Libre Office. Or heck, provide them with actual tooling better fit for their requirements than Excel.
And in any case, IMHO, "public money, public code". Nothing should be paid for with public money without it being publicly accessible afterwards ( excluding weaponry of course).