Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux

gjacobse

Libre works well also, and will do xlsx and docx ..

Notepad and Notepad++ are pretty close to the same line,.. and pretty sure notepad++ is cross platform

Screen Capture - easy,.. listed here some place just have find it again. * Ah... Screenshot

gjacobse

Skype for Linux works well
Telegram works also.

black3dynamite

MS Office = LibreOffice
MS Publisher = LibreOffice, Scribus (https://www.scribus.net/)
Visio = LibreOffice
Notepad++ = Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Gedit, Kate
Notepad = The ones that comes native with the Desktop environment like Gedit (Gnome) and Kate (KDE)

gjacobse

tagging for more primary use software:

@scottalanmiller @JaredBusch @CCWTech

black3dynamite

Flameshot is another good screen capture.

black3dynamite

If they ever need a screen recorder, there's a nice list of screen recorders from It's FOSS.

JaredBusch

@nashbrydges said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:

I've started compiling a list of software they use and corresponding Linux alternatives. Here's my list so far. You'll notice that some don't list an alternative or have more than 1 shown. I'm interested in what this group prefers.

MS Office = OnlyOffice (because of its native use of pptx, xlsx, docx file types)
Desktop email = Evolution, Thunderbird? Sure they could simply use web mail but they do prefer the desktop client experience.
Notepad = Will likely suggest Nextcloud Notes?
Softphone = Linphone, Zoiper?
Notepad++ = Notepadqq, Atom?
MS Publisher = ???
Screen Capture = ???
Visio = Draw.io, Dia?
OneNote = ???

Office: Use LibreOffice for free or OnlyOffice if you require the compatibility, which it seems you want.
Email: I have been using Evolutoin with no problems, but someone else had issues with it staying updated
Notepad: VSCode
Softphone: Not ZoIPer as they are now paid only for commercial use.
Notepad++: VSCode. How is this different from Notepad?
MS Publisher: LibreOffice Draw maybe? Who uses this? Just eww.
Screen Capture: Shutter or Flameshot
Visio: LibreOffice Draw
OneNote: Nextcloud Notes

JaredBusch

I just forced @TechnicalAngel to Fedora + Cinnamon last week.

CloudKnight

This cheers me up, I would love to see all businesses embrace linux one day.

CloudKnight

Good Photoshop alternative: https://krita.org/en/

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PhlipElder

Curiosity question: Are the users already familiar with FOSS to some degree thus the request?

I'd really like to hear about how the transition goes and how long it takes the users to regain their efficiencies.

Obsolesce

@phlipelder said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:

regain and surpass their efficiencies.

FTFY

PhlipElder

@obsolesce said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:

FTFY

Munich, Germany.

jmoore

@nashbrydges
MS Office = LibreOffice
Desktop email = Evolution
Notepad = Atom
Softphone = Linphone
Screen Capture = Greenshot
Visio = Draw
OneNote = Grav

NashBrydges

@phlipelder said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:

Curiosity question: Are the users already familiar with FOSS to some degree thus the request?

I'd really like to hear about how the transition goes and how long it takes the users to regain their efficiencies.

The client's staff are all relatively young and all have expressed interest in this move which was the primary reason why they're entertaining this move. Being a small company with few employees, getting the existing staff onboard was important and moving forward, they will be creating onboarding documentation to help new employees less familiar with non Windows OS.

NashBrydges

Thanks for all the feedback. I'll be creating a few VMs for the staff to "play" with to see what flavor of Linux they like best. These suggestions will be very useful.

gjacobse

@nashbrydges said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:

Thanks for all the feedback. I'll be creating a few VMs for the staff to "play" with to see what flavor of Linux they like best. These suggestions will be very useful.

Fedora seems to be a really good one to select... I know of several that are using Fedora 28 as a full replacement - myself included.

black3dynamite

@gjacobse said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:

@nashbrydges said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:

Thanks for all the feedback. I'll be creating a few VMs for the staff to "play" with to see what flavor of Linux they like best. These suggestions will be very useful.

Fedora seems to be a really good one to select... I know of several that are using Fedora 28 as a full replacement - myself included.

Providing the users with different Desktop Environments would help too.

siringo

The above posts concentrate alot on Linux equivalents to Windows software. Have you considered the impact to the business and the day to day business operations that may be impacted by going non mainstream?

Puts Devils Advocate hat on.

What happens when they need to use software from a supplier / client / producer / whoever that was written for Windows and can only supply it for Windows. Also that party may only provide support when that software runs in a Windows environment.

You could run it in a Windows emulator. There's added complexity for staff & support, plus additional time in getting it all running.

Staff will need to be retrained as things won't run just like they do in Windows. New employees will be Windows aware few to none will have any Linux knowledge.

The entire world uses Windows, a few small islands use Linux.

I'm not anti Linux nor pro Windows, I can just see lots and lots of headaches, incompatibilities, duplication of work, confusion, retraining, cost, time.

Can the business run reliably & efficiently on Linux? What's the support base like in the area where the business is located? If you're hit by a bus is there anyone else who can support their Linux based business?

Will their phones, cameras, ipods, wahetever be able to plug into their Linux workstations and work?

What happens if it just doesn't work and it becomes too difficult? You may have to end up going Windows and have wasted time & money and will be asking for additional time & money to roll out the MS solution.

Be careful, this is the sort of thing that can destroy reputations.

And again, I'm not anti Linux nor pro Windows, bring back pen & paper I say!

Good luck.

stacksofplates

@jaredbusch said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:

@nashbrydges said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:

I've started compiling a list of software they use and corresponding Linux alternatives. Here's my list so far. You'll notice that some don't list an alternative or have more than 1 shown. I'm interested in what this group prefers.

MS Office = OnlyOffice (because of its native use of pptx, xlsx, docx file types)
Desktop email = Evolution, Thunderbird? Sure they could simply use web mail but they do prefer the desktop client experience.
Notepad = Will likely suggest Nextcloud Notes?
Softphone = Linphone, Zoiper?
Notepad++ = Notepadqq, Atom?
MS Publisher = ???
Screen Capture = ???
Visio = Draw.io, Dia?
OneNote = ???

Office: Use LibreOffice for free or OnlyOffice if you require the compatibility, which it seems you want.

Email: I have been using Evolutoin with no problems, but someone else had issues with it staying updated

Notepad: VSCode

Softphone: Not ZoIPer as they are now paid only for commercial use.

Notepad++: VSCode. How is this different from Notepad?

MS Publisher: LibreOffice Draw maybe? Who uses this? Just eww.

Screen Capture: Shutter or Flameshot

Visio: LibreOffice Draw

OneNote: Nextcloud Notes

Scribus is a Publisher replacement. But I agree, eww.