3w ago

German federal state migrates 30.000 PCs to LibreOffice

LibreOffice (@libreoffice@fosstodon.org)

Mooorrre!

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Let's hope Microsoft doesn't move their headquarters to that state, as they did with München.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
- To be fair, though, iirc a lot of IT corporations have their German headquarters in Munich.
- They changed the politicians after that stunt. Good Germans!

This has been long coming and has nothing to do with the tarrifs or even Trump. Germany has been trying to switch to Linux and LibreOffice for some years now because of the unwanted reliance on big tech.
Just wanted to say this because it might look like something that could be done because of the current US bullshit, which isn't the main reason.
- You are right, sadly going FOSSS and back again is a German federal government hobby since decades. I hope this time it sticks.

They even have a mastodon instance where their government is on too @landesregierung@social.schleswig-holstein.de . I can't find information how many PCs have been migrated though... Am I missing something?
P.S Hopefully Microsoft doesn't pay off some politicians to switch back like in Munich...
- It's right in the headline?
  
  Thanks, I see you only read the headline and not the articles linked. Congrats.

Maybe this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop after all
- Been dreaming for a long time, but maybe with all this murica dumbshit, it's the closest we've ever Bern.
  
  Its devinetively getting closer sadly the market share dropped in the last few months down to 3.8%. The death of Windows 10 however will push this up quite a bit I guess.

Let’s hope they also use some of the money saved to support the development of LibreOffice.

Interesting how difficult this transition would be, it’s a lot of work. From an IT standpoint, but also from the users, most likely will cause a bit of friction.
- I thought it was pretty seemless, personally, but I hate Word.
  
  seamless haha, but ya, LibreOffice is sick

Might as well put openSUSE on them.
- Sort of the plan, but I am not sure what Linux distro they are using.
  
  Some Employee of Schleswig Holstein posted a few days ago that he's finally allowed to use Linux on his work laptop, and that it's OpenSUSE that's approved. But I would hope that they would support the Linux Ecosystem by either paying developers or buying a subscription for the Suse Enterprise Linux

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