German federal state migrates 30.000 PCs to LibreOffice
German federal state migrates 30.000 PCs to LibreOffice
Attached: 1 image With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/...
Mooorrre!
This has been long coming and has nothing to do with the tarrifs or even Trump. Germany has been trying to switch to Linux and LibreOffice for some years now because of the unwanted reliance on big tech.
Just wanted to say this because it might look like something that could be done because of the current US bullshit, which isn't the main reason.
You are right, sadly going FOSSS and back again is a German federal government hobby since decades. I hope this time it sticks.
Let's hope Microsoft doesn't move their headquarters to that state, as they did with München.
They changed the politicians after that stunt. Good Germans!
To be fair, though, iirc a lot of IT corporations have their German headquarters in Munich.
They even have a mastodon instance where their government is on too @landesregierung@social.schleswig-holstein.de . I can't find information how many PCs have been migrated though... Am I missing something?
P.S Hopefully Microsoft doesn't pay off some politicians to switch back like in Munich...
Interesting how difficult this transition would be, it’s a lot of work. From an IT standpoint, but also from the users, most likely will cause a bit of friction.
I thought it was pretty seemless, personally, but I hate Word.
Maybe this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop after all
Let’s hope they also use some of the money saved to support the development of LibreOffice.
This made me aware of EuroStack
Libre 🙃
Fixed 🙃
Wow. They're really going for it.
Might as well put openSUSE on them.
Sort of the plan, but I am not sure what Linux distro they are using.
Some Employee of Schleswig Holstein posted a few days ago that he's finally allowed to use Linux on his work laptop, and that it's OpenSUSE that's approved. But I would hope that they would support the Linux Ecosystem by either paying developers or buying a subscription for the Suse Enterprise Linux