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[–] 70 points 4 months ago

Solid move. If your office really just needs a word processor, email, a spreadsheet editor, etc, then Linux is going to make a ton of sense financially.

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago

    Paraphrasing from the video: it’s a small town (2k people) in the Loire region. They claim that the transition to Linux wasn’t as hard as anticipated, meaning it wasn’t as hard to teach town officials to use it as they thought. Users are happy to see their machines run faster on Linux than on bloated Windows They are looking forward to saving money on SW but also on equipment since they don’t have to buy new machines for the Windows 11 planned obsolescence madness. However, the main reason the town switched was for privacy. They handle confidential info and are betting on Linux track record as less of a target of ransomware and other exploits, hopefully protecting their citizens data better.

    10/10, who ever the mayor or city manager is, I applaud their clear mindedness and courage to make this transition. Hopefully, seeing the benefits, more towns will follow suite.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago

    Based France

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Wild that everyone hasn't been doing it for years!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately they have, especially I am aware of some in Germany, but they gave up due to the difficulties involved as Linux did not turn out to be as easy to use as people hoped a decade ago.

    And now the pendulum has swung back around.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The German thing was quite suspicious though, the mayor of the city changed, Microsoft announced that they were building a new center of excellence or something in the town and suddenly Linux was too hard...

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Good. less money to US Corpos

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    My office is slowly decomissioning our ms servers afyer the whole cloudstrike thing. Its been nice standing up linux servers again. And saves $$.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I wonder what their software setup is. What they using for Id management or managing devices. Is this a government office?

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (14 children)

    Anyone else got no audio on the clip? Be cool if there were subtitles.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago* (8 children)

    Went looking for the clip, that was a mistake.

    What in the AI clickbait bot spam hell is going on here?

    A bunch of randomly different channels, all with similar, sometimes the same, thumbnail, and suspiciously similar timestamps. The videos are like some dude (who I suspect is not a real person) in portrait talking like he’s reporting but it’s all generated painted looking backgrounds of stock photos.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    C'est que des produits français.

    Quelqu'un va devoir aviser Torvalds qu'il est maintenant Français. Blague à part, je comprends le choix de vocabulaire car la majorité de ce qu'ils doivent utiliser doit être des logiciels maison, mais reste que le système d'exploitation lui-même n'est quand même pas français.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (26 children)

    What are they replacing office with? I've been using Office Libre but it's buggy AF. I can't use sheets on a second monitor because it freezes until I move it back the main monitor for example.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I use libre office on a second monitor and its fine. That honestly does not sound like a problem with software. It should not care how the os displays it to hardware endpoints.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    That's wierd... I wonder why it gives me a hard time?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah so everything else works fine on it. I mean you should be able to exculsively use the second monitor without your laptop screen. Like software does determine all sorts of aspects of how it displays to an os but the os is deciding on display sources. software does not dictate that.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    Not sure what they're using, but OnlyOffice is pretty good

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    I'll give that a go, thank you!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    um. are you having a conversation with yourself where you recommend something you use and your now going to check it out???

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    Open Office and Only Office are the same thing? I'm confused.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Yeah this is hard to explain but in my view you have what appears to be an empty reply and because of it, it looks like moonlights reply is yours. Ill try and paste it here.
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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    That's wild, looks fine on my phone. I'm using boost, but not the dyslexia font. Not sure that makes a difference, it shouldn't...?!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    yeah it could be the font. I think because there is nothing in it and you have the icon while moonlights has no icon it just sorta seems to merge together. Anyway that was why I was confused. It looked like you suggested something to yourself.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not above talking to myself when others around! It's cool now that I'm old 🤣

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I do plenty with my dog but get sheepish if people are around. same with whistling and singing.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    But are you old yet? If not, totally normal. If you're old, own that shit 🤣

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Oh that's pretty neat projects. Wonder if Germany, Netherlands and France will go with this over euro office.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Is eurooffice actually available for regular users somewhere? Not self hosting but like in managed nextcloud or similar?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    No, I don't think so. But it's based on only office which does have a desktop offline client version without the need for hosting a backend server. Havent researched enough to say for sure. Just read through a few news articles and the GitHub page (the cognitive dissonance with this project - great idea, yet host om MS service and uses MS docx formats...).

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I'm sorry. As an American I don't speak French.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Il y a beaucoup de francophones de Nouveau Angleterre près de Québec!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    There are indeed! And I grew up in Detroit, so I loved going across the river to Windsor and making trips up to Toronto.

    Also, my original comment was meant to be a self-deprecating joke. It just seems like simply mentioning that you're American, or even just saying "American" at all, immediately starts getting you downvoted here on Lemmy, so...

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