[arkad]

I admire Germany's approach and awareness. At least they try. There's 20-years old saga of linux vs windows battle in the Munich City Council [1]. Great case study.

I'm very curious how this will work for them. It's quite a struggle to adopt OSS where the vast majority of users think "Office suite" == "M$ Office".

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

[pjmlp]

I can confirm that a couple of public libraries have the computer terminals running some version of SuSE with KDE.

[ghaff]

I'd say the vast majority of users think "Office suite" == "Google Docs." I don't know the last time I've touched a locally installed office suite whether MS Office or LibreOffice.

[freedomben]

Your sample is not representative. Plenty of people still use MS Office. It's not only local install anymore either now that they have an online version.

[ghaff]

It's probably fairer to say Google Docs OR Office365--though in my personal experience I see Google a lot more. But how many people are actually installing local copies of office productivity suites? I certainly don't see them when people send documents around.