German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by panzi on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:03AM (#39929288)

Nowadays they mail .docx around, haven't seen a .doc in a long time. I'm a software dev on Linux and haven't even LibreOffice installed. I tell the sender to please send it to me as .pdf. I write docs in markdown on GitHub (the company I work for uses GitHub, make of it what you will).

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by quesera on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:55AM (#39929813)

PDF is easy to read. It's a ridiculous document format for the purpose of internal sharing and reading, but it still works well for that purpose.

But PDF is not really optimized for editing or collaboration, and the tools available on Linux especially are limited.

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by bee_rider on Thursday April 04, 2024 @11:13AM (#39931419)

I like PDFs when I trust them, but I’m always a bit wary receiving them from random people. Don’t they support embedded scripting?

I’d like a format that is like PDF, but markup only.

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Re:German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice by panzi on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:27AM (#39943582)

Well, my viewer doesn't support embedded scripting. :D

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