Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux
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As title says, I have a small client that wants to fully transition to Linux for desktop OS. There are currently 5 users but will be growing to around 30-32 users by end of year. No onsite servers and don't foresee the need for one either. They use Office 365 for mail and Nextcloud on Vultr for files.
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 = ???Appreciate everyone's thoughts on alternatives.
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@nashbrydges said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:
OneNote
For OneNote, are they willing to use OneNote Online exclusively?
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@black3dynamite Possibility if there's no desktop alternative available.
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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
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Skype for Linux works well
Telegram works also. -
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) -
tagging for more primary use software:
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Flameshot is another good screen capture.
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If they ever need a screen recorder, there's a nice list of screen recorders from It's FOSS.
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@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
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I just forced @TechnicalAngel to Fedora + Cinnamon last week.
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This cheers me up, I would love to see all businesses embrace linux one day.
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Good Photoshop alternative: https://krita.org/en/
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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.
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@phlipelder said in Client Wants To Transition From Windows To Linux:
regain and surpass their efficiencies.
FTFY
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@nashbrydges
MS Office = LibreOffice
Desktop email = Evolution
Notepad = Atom
Softphone = Linphone
Screen Capture = Greenshot
Visio = Draw
OneNote = Grav -
@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.
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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.
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@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.
