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Denmark Switches from Microsoft to LibreOffice and Linux

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38 pointscyberkar13 comments

It would make sense for the governments to fund a team of developers to maintain and upgrade the euro-gov version these products. Keep them open source, but have dedicated software developers working for the gov to maintain and improve them. This will still be far cheaper than enterprise licenses.

I'd rather see the governments fund the main version and see the changes published upstream, everyone would benefit.

[dupe]

Denmark Is Switching to Linux

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44346120

Previously:

The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234552

Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255352

I respect digital sovereignty but I'm also giggling at the shock the non-nerds are going to have at Linux desktop/the tech support hassles for the IT teams.

Ho hum. Does this create demand for integrations/distributions/new software geared towards government and state/municipal employees across Europe?

I suppose this space is already well catered by large multinational consultancies?

There will be s short term transition issue, but once Linux is installed and people have got used to it it should have fewer hassles.

I have been told its harder to manage config at scale but have not experience of it, and there are products that claim to do it.

Most non-nerds barely notice the desktop. its just a launcher for the handful of applications they use.

The depth it is possible to dig oneself into a dolgostroy with OSS is unlimited. OTOH, if governed properly, it gives an option to actually solve the problems that you face.

With Microsoft and other corps you are in an abusive domestic relationship with a nacissistic sociopath.

Agree on the initial confusion, but, I do not think the forced upgrade to W11 went unnoticed, either

Windows is so bad these days I actually expect this kind of problem to go down.

Literally half the reason everyone complains their computers are not working is because of IT putting random crapware monitoring/security software on managed windows devices. Go away with windows the crapware goes away too and users have less problems.

And that is just on top of the normal windows 11 crapware and bad UX.

There will be full of crapware available if enterprise starts adopting Linux on a wide scale.

e.g. Crowdstrike is already there.

I dunno, MacOS has that IT crapware too and it is not _nearly_ as bad as windows IT crapware. And MacOS is used in enterprise at scale.

For far less than the cost of a vendor contract, any government could hire a few developers to work on “their” version of the OS, office suite, apps, etc etc.

It could act as a friendly fork.

Good ideas in the fork could be upstreamed by the gov employees working with the project owners - or (since the gov-run fork is also open source) by literally anyone who wants that good idea upstream.

Seems like the exact thing open source is good at!

Is thing a thing now in government offices? just read the same about the city of Lyon at https://digitrendz.blog/newswire/business/19813/lyon-drops-m...

There is movement across different European countries to move FOSS in a attempt to achieve some digital sovereignty.

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