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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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.
Based France
Wild that this is news.
Wild that everyone hasn't been doing it for years!
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.
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...
Sounds exactly like Microsoft to not leave their product to compete on even terms, and instead use coercion tactics to "win".
Anyone else got no audio on the clip? Be cool if there were subtitles.
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.
Samtime is legit tho
Yeah after scrolling past 10 slop videos
Oh no!
Anyway...
It's over.
What in the slopping hell
That's elon musk and bill gates, they exist.
/s
Tux: exist French flag: existe
Case closed
Here is the original clip. It's from France 3.
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.
Thanks!
I paraphrased a rough translation in another reply if you want to take a look.
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Good. less money to US Corpos
My office is slowly decomissioning our ms servers afyer the whole cloudstrike thing. Its been nice standing up linux servers again. And saves $$.
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.
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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Not sure what they're using, but OnlyOffice is pretty good
I'll give that a go, thank you!
um. are you having a conversation with yourself where you recommend something you use and your now going to check it out???
Open Office and Only Office are the same thing? I'm confused.
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.
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...?!
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.
I'm not above talking to myself when others around! It's cool now that I'm old 🤣
I do plenty with my dog but get sheepish if people are around. same with whistling and singing.
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Uh your client's doing something weird. Here's Lemmy's regular website version:
Most probably partially this (official gvt French tools)
Thank you!
Oh that's pretty neat projects. Wonder if Germany, Netherlands and France will go with this over euro office.
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Try LibreCalc
I will, thank you!
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I wonder what their software setup is. What they using for Id management or managing devices. Is this a government office?
The video says they are handling “banking info, health data and personal records” It is a government agency: the town hall of a small town of 2,000 people.
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