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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...).
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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saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 37d
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.
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 37d
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.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 37d
Based France
discocactus@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 37d
Wild that this is news.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 37d
Wild that everyone hasn't been doing it for years!
OpenStars@discuss.online · 2 pts · 36d
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.
Ninjasftw@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
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...
OpenStars@discuss.online · 1 pts · 36d
Sounds exactly like Microsoft to not leave their product to compete on even terms, and instead use coercion tactics to "win".
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 37d
Anyone else got no audio on the clip? Be cool if there were subtitles.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 37d
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.
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 37d
Samtime is legit tho
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 37d
Yeah after scrolling past 10 slop videos
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 37d
Oh no!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
It's over.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 37d
Anyway...
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 37d
What in the slopping hell
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 37d
That's elon musk and bill gates, they exist.
/s
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
Tux: exist French flag: existe
Case closed
Zaelaa@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 37d
Here is the original clip. It's from France 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7FzAV_XQSk
pedz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 37d
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.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
Thanks!
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
I paraphrased a rough translation in another reply if you want to take a look.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
Thanks!
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 5 pts · 37d
My office is slowly decomissioning our ms servers afyer the whole cloudstrike thing. Its been nice standing up linux servers again. And saves $$.
TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 5 pts · 37d
Good. less money to US Corpos
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 37d
I wonder what their software setup is. What they using for Id management or managing devices. Is this a government office?
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
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.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 1 pts · 37d
Theres AD compliant software out there interestingly enough.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 37d
Yeah, ive always wanted to try working in a place that doesnt use AD/Entra.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
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.
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 37d
Personally I use LibreOffice, it's very solid.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 11 pts · 37d
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.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
That's wierd... I wonder why it gives me a hard time?
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 37d
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.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
For sure, no idea why it freezes until I drag it back.
moonlight@fedia.io · 8 pts · 37d
Not sure what they're using, but OnlyOffice is pretty good
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
I'll give that a go, thank you!
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 37d
um. are you having a conversation with yourself where you recommend something you use and your now going to check it out???
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d
Open Office and Only Office are the same thing? I'm confused.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 37d
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.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
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...?!
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 37d
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.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 37d
Uh your client's doing something weird. Here's Lemmy's regular website version:
leftascenter@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 37d
Most probably partially this (official gvt French tools)
https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en
https://github.com/suitenumerique
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
Thank you!
deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 37d
Oh that's pretty neat projects. Wonder if Germany, Netherlands and France will go with this over euro office.
pmk@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 37d
Is eurooffice actually available for regular users somewhere? Not self hosting but like in managed nextcloud or similar?
deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 36d
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...).
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 37d
Try LibreCalc
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
I will, thank you!
BlackVenom@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 37d
This. Sheets is disappointing af.
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d
I'm sorry. As an American I don't speak French.
Horsey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
Il y a beaucoup de francophones de Nouveau Angleterre près de Québec!
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
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...