30,000 PCs are moving from Microsoft Office to #LibreOffice in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. At the recent Univention Summit 2025, we met the people handling the migration: blog.documentfoundation.org/blโฆ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
LibreOffice at the Univention Summit 2025 - The Document Foundation Blog
The northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Windows and Office to Linux and LibreOffice.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •2 features I would *like* to see in the word processor: embedding links in words; a comments mode.
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I hope your experience is as great as mine has been.
If you ever run into a problem, their help forum is great. The folks there are very friendly and knowledgeable.
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Essentially freedom from Microsoft, ideally lower cost, too.
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •I love Libre Office. I used it for a bit when I was still a Mac person, and after switching full time to Linux with Linux Mint, I then used it with my job almost every day for six years.
I found building tools in LO Calc was significantly easier than Excel.
Congrats #schleswigholstein for making the right choice!
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in reply to Quark Maker • • •One other point I'd like to make is that, given the current political and Wall Street climate in the U.S., the EU's response through passing the ACI, etc., I think breaking and eliminating dependence upon Microsoft and, in practice, any other American tech corporation, is in national, state, and even city-level security and economic interest.
I think adopting LibreOffice is a good first step, but you also need to switch to Linux, and Germany's own SUSE is an excellent choice.
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in reply to Quark Maker • • •Finally, you say you use Linux? is that necessary? What advantage does it provide? And where do you recommend I could start?
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I can't speak to the Calc vs Excel issue, but you don't need to run Linux.
I've been running Linux Mint for nearly 3 years and LibreOffice as my office suite for about 8. Linux is a more secure system and doesn't constantly spy on you like MS Windows does. I use Linux daily and it's been a breeze.
Also, both have better support forums than their MS counterparts.
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Excellent news! Drives me nuts when gov't agencies unashamedly require proprietary software to access their services.
Now we need to get them all off of the corporate social media habit.
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •How much expenditure could be reduced if the European Union decided that administrations should primarily use free software? Only if unavoidable, in individual cases, should the public administration be dependent on expensive, commercial license products. In almost all cases, this is old-fashioned, unnecessary and outdated. #publicmoney
๐ก Public Money, Public Code - A campaign for releasing publicly financed software as Free Software. www.publiccode.eu
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in reply to deNiRo • •#Thunderbird and its calendar works fine for me as a client.
#postfix also works fine as a #smtp server.
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