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by zrobotics 242 days ago
IT & software dev for a small-midsize company. I wasn't able to finish migrating last month due to a pressing project, but we're migrating almost all of our systems at work to Linux. 90% of our user's work is done in a browser, and the other 10% is in an in-house application I wrote. That app works on Linux, since my work machine has been on Linux for years.

We'll have a few macs and 2 win11 machines, but the rest are getting migrated.

We're in the Google ecosystem for email, docs, and drive so I'll just deploy Chrome instead of a Libre chromium. I'd rather not troubleshoot user profile issues, and they have access to all our data anyway. Honestly, I fully expect I'll have more than a few users that don't even notice the OS change.
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jbstack 242 days ago
Next step: escape the Google ecosystem. LibreOffice for docs (its far superior to Google Docs anyway). Syncthing for drive.
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roboyoshi 241 days ago
Slightly disagree - while LibreOffice might be better in features, the UI/UX of Google Docs worked so much better for me, it's not even funny.
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jbstack 241 days ago
I guess I kind of agree with your disagree, but disagree overall!

The UI in LibreOffice feels quite clunky and outdated and never seems to have been given any thought since the OpenOffice days. But Google Docs is so feature poor that I'd rather live with LibreOffice's UI. Especially as you can adjust to the latter after using the software for a while.

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timbit42 241 days ago
Have you tried LibreOffice's ribbon interface? It is similar to the one on Microsoft Office. You go to View > User Interface and choose "Tabbed". There are 7 different variants available.
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timbit42 241 days ago
Have you tried LibreOffice's ribbon interface? It is similar to the one on Microsoft Office. You go to View > User Interface and choose "Tabbed". There are 7 different variants available.
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sys_64738 241 days ago
Can you elaborate on the decision making? Was it purely a financial design (i.e. not to buy Win11 new systems and use the legacy PCs for Linux), or was it just a decision to break free from the Windows upgrade cycle? Thanks!
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