Obligatory yearly toot about #FOSS so I can stay on #Fosstodon 🎉
I saw the other day that German state Schleswig-Holstein is going to switch to fully #FOSS. Which is great and hope it works out for them.
Having set up a fully (F)OSS (desktops, apps, servers, etc) IT env for a large non-profit, might I suggest proper enterprise support instead of a lone coffee-addicted sysadmin who tries to keep systems together with hopes, prayers and duct tape? 🥲
@Gina I work with the service provider for SHs IT (different department) and don't expect anything that doesn't have enterprise support to hit any machines 😄
Also I really really hope that most of the compatibility issues with #LibreOffice and M$ Office have been resolved by now. Documents and Powerpoints were frequently corrupted, Excel macros didn't work. That was the dagger that made users revolt.
@Gina
The problem of compatibility are on MS side, not @libreoffice: I'm using it, exclusively, on my PCs since it was called StarOffice, eons ago.
Never had issues.
The issues were for people using MS Office that saw my files in (partly) strange ways. 😉
@AAMfP@libreoffice True, and it's unfair to blame LibreOffice. It sucks that most of the world still uses MS Office, those documents would often become unusable.
@Gina
Yes!
I've helped a friend and used LO to read and recover an old graduation thesis written with MS Write (and partly on an old Word), that was no more readable with newer MS Office versions. @libreoffice
That is not to say that everything was bad. Users liked working with #LinuxMint (still my fav distro), #RocketChat and #NextCloud were popular as well. Zimbra as a mailserver was ok, there were a few complaints about the scheduling tool. #Jitsi worked well, at times. I'm trying to remember the other apps that we used.
We had in-house servers with I believe #Proxmox and #Ubuntu vm's on top, managed by #Ansible. That all worked really well. One or 2 Windows VM's for legacy apps.
@Gina I share my experience: migration fails primarily because of the lack of user support. People from fiscal administration, secretariat, technical officers should be accompanied and supported to migrate, both technically and ... psychologically (software is like a pet).
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When stuff worked, it was great! Those were my favorite 5 min a day.
But very often there were compatibility issues on the user side, unexpected bugs with zero support, exceptions had to be made for specific proprietary apps, users had to be constantly trained, management was a nightmare. I assume that a German state has enough resources to mitigate this, but yeah don't do this on your own. #foss#opensource
@Gina I think if you use both #LibreOffice and #onlyoffice you can cover basically kinds of documents. It's such a shame that OnlyOffice has telemetry/tracking baked in though :/
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