Comment by sgt
6 days ago
It's a great way for Denmark to negotiate a better deal with Microsoft for the next round of licenses. No way they will stick with Linux.
It's just too fiddly, requiring way more "IT people" running around configuring Samba shares and printer drivers.
And LibreOffice is many many years behind MS Office, and it'll continue to be that way.
Sorry for the pessimism but this was true in 2005, in 2015, and in 2025.
>It's just too fiddly, requiring way more "IT people" running around configuring Samba shares and printer drivers.
IIRC several German states went with nextcloud to make the transition a bit smoother. No idea about the effort when it comes to print servers, but on the other hand Denmark is quite digitized at this point and I would imagine printing papers is less of a thing there than in Germany.
>And LibreOffice is many many years behind MS Office, and it'll continue to be that way.
I believe you, but could you elaborate on what's missing?
Fortunately I don't spend a lot of time in either of these but what I did notice was just the UI being more difficult - so UI friction makes a big difference, especially across thousands of users in a government department.
Also lots of minor bugs, like font kerning looked weird, missing features (one cannot expect it to keep up with MS on this, they've got full time highly paid developers working on MS Office every single day), various incompatibilities... some bizarre crashes.
My company has Linux and Windows laptop fleets. Windows requires more work and causes more pain, even though the Linux fleet is larger.
What sector and country is that? Or better, which company? How large is the company and how many Linux and Windows machines are there?
I'm also curious to know how they manage their Linux fleet?
Software company in İstanbul. I don't know the exact numbers, but a few thousand machines on each. Linux just works.
> And LibreOffice is many many years behind MS Office, and it'll continue to be that way.
Are you referring to compatibility with MS Office features? Because as far as I can tell Excel/Word/PowerPoint (and its OSS counterparts) are pretty much feature complete since about 10 years.