Has anyone’s job, small or large, gotten off windows completely and moved to Linux?
I’m always interested to know if this actually happens, and if so, in which settings.
Then again, most people don’t really know their OSes and for as long as the interface is familiar enough to launch their web browser, it is fine.
I did this to 2 workplace and put an autoupdating Ubuntu LTS 22.xx Since then I have left and I had not really returned the cracked Win10 OS in them and somehow this feels like a d*ck move. They could get a computer “technician” to “fix” their problem but I swear I left their computer in a better position than leave it alone with a counterfeit Win 10.
I did this again to my new workplaces where I have more or less exclusive control of the PC. I could do it again to a 3rd PC but a lot of people use it and their use case demands MS Office (also unregistered and counterfeit). I installed LibreOffice, VeraCrypt and Syncthing on it.
yes, Ubuntu.
I saw people using Linux and LibreOffice in my local police station, that was one of the most based things I saw. If police can use LibreOffice, then everyone else can too, and there is no need for Word.
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We did the reverse on my previous big corpo. We were using Redhat Enterprise Desktop and switched everything to Windows. Servers are still on Linux but not the enduser desktops and laptops.
this is tru but libre writer’s devs need to get their shit together, right about now.
Why?
Some big Linux vendors like Red Hat, SUSE and Canonical should just team up and create a 100% compatible Wine version to run MS Office on Linux. Similar to what Valve has done for gaming with Proton. That damn office suite is the #1 blocker for workplaces to switch to Linux.
(And no, LibreOffice and OnlyOffice are not compatible enough. They struggle to display half of the charts in my Excel files. Stuff like dynamic/named ranges for the data source, display axis as dates instead of text values, bubble charts, … are all not possible)
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I have seen some municipality in my contry is using some kind of lockdown version of ubuntu for public use to avoid things like keyloggers, malware, etc.
I was really surprised when I saw it. I used like 20 minutes just trying breaking it but no luck.
You are well meaning, but you have to ask permission prior to this so that you wont get into trouble.
I think with the atomic distros we may see more companies trying to adopt Linux going forward.
I hope some day Microsoft is the one trying to be 100% compatible with spreadsheets or documents extensions from Linux.
Any thoughts on Collabora?
Collabora is Libreoffice for enterprise/bussines users, with paid support.
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Microsoft is already 100% compatible with Linux via its web version of MS Office 
Unfortunately, their web version is not 100% compatible with their PC version
Yeah, I probably should have asked. But I was so surprised to see Linux for the first and only time I had seen Linux in public. It was a magnet.
At first I was only trying to see which distro it was. So I did Ctrl+Alt+T I just got denied access. The only thing I could open was Chrome and Libreoffice, everything I tried just got denied access, I was just trying to get around it. But I was driving my brother and only had 20ish minutes.
I found the OS when I got home it has some cool features like: All user information is deleted when a user logs out of the computer.
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you don’t use both?
The idea would be to save money from licenses with MS
only Corp’s use licences.
Yes. That’s the point. We are using licenses at work.