German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by f6v on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:19AM (#29267155)

If you could save money by switching to Linux from Windows, I’d expect to see much more Linux machines in corporations.

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by go_elmo on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:23AM (#29267202)

I only saw linux machines in SE companies so far (at least remote ones). Maybe, just maybe, it is because non-tech people 1) cant handle it as cli is needed from time to time 2) because personal preferences & habits make it almost impossible to "force" using linux on staff..?

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by f6v on Thursday November 18, 2021 @02:03PM (#29269135)

> because personal preferences & habits make it almost impossible to "force" using linux on staff..?

I’m willing to speculate office workers won’t care. More and more people will have smartphone as the only personal computer. So it won’t be about them not wanting to use Linux at work because they run Windows at home.

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by namdnay on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:29AM (#29267264)

3) Excel macros and VBscript

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by go_elmo on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:42AM (#29267448)

*aka cancer / high burden to switch systems to [insert any turing-complete language]

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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:53PM (#29269018)

4) distribution madness

5) lack of userland backwards compatibility

6) poor commercial application support...

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