• nullify3112@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    20 小时前

    Paraphrasing from the video: it’s a small town (2k people) in the Loire region. They claim that the transition to Linux wasn’t as hard as anticipated, meaning it wasn’t as hard to teach town officials to use it as they thought. Users are happy to see their machines run faster on Linux than on bloated Windows They are looking forward to saving money on SW but also on equipment since they don’t have to buy new machines for the Windows 11 planned obsolescence madness. However, the main reason the town switched was for privacy. They handle confidential info and are betting on Linux track record as less of a target of ransomware and other exploits, hopefully protecting their citizens data better.

    10/10, who ever the mayor or city manager is, I applaud their clear mindedness and courage to make this transition. Hopefully, seeing the benefits, more towns will follow suite.

  • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world
    68·
    1 天前

    Solid move. If your office really just needs a word processor, email, a spreadsheet editor, etc, then Linux is going to make a ton of sense financially.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        2·
        5 小时前

        Unfortunately they have, especially I am aware of some in Germany, but they gave up due to the difficulties involved as Linux did not turn out to be as easy to use as people hoped a decade ago.

        And now the pendulum has swung back around.

        • Ninjasftw@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 小时前

          The German thing was quite suspicious though, the mayor of the city changed, Microsoft announced that they were building a new center of excellence or something in the town and suddenly Linux was too hard…

          • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
            1·
            1 小时前

            Sounds exactly like Microsoft to not leave their product to compete on even terms, and instead use coercion tactics to “win”.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    24 小时前

    My office is slowly decomissioning our ms servers afyer the whole cloudstrike thing. Its been nice standing up linux servers again. And saves $$.

      • mechoman444@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 小时前

        There are indeed! And I grew up in Detroit, so I loved going across the river to Windsor and making trips up to Toronto.

        Also, my original comment was meant to be a self-deprecating joke. It just seems like simply mentioning that you’re American, or even just saying “American” at all, immediately starts getting you downvoted here on Lemmy, so…

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    4·
    1 天前

    I wonder what their software setup is. What they using for Id management or managing devices. Is this a government office?

    • nullify3112@lemmy.world
      5·
      20 小时前

      The video says they are handling “banking info, health data and personal records” It is a government agency: the town hall of a small town of 2,000 people.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nz
        1·
        22 小时前

        Yeah, ive always wanted to try working in a place that doesnt use AD/Entra.

  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 天前

    What are they replacing office with? I’ve been using Office Libre but it’s buggy AF. I can’t use sheets on a second monitor because it freezes until I move it back the main monitor for example.