@jmoore said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

@jmoore said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

It's native to, and built into Ubuntu Linux which is our official platform. This means essentially zero IT support needed, it's even in the default install. Even employees opting for Fedora, Pop_OS, Raspberry Pi OS get it by default, too. And our one MacOS user gets it. And anyone playing with Windows gets it from Chocolatey.

This is a very valid point. I do all the installs at our campuses. I spend so much time installing and re-installing because it develops problems for us. While I have mitigated a lot of the install time by putting it in my user image, I still have to reinstall on a regular basis. We have close to 300 non-IT users and it breaks a lot. Too much in my opinion. I have to do 2-3 re-installs a week on average to fix issues it gets on its on.

Same here for customers on MS Office. Reinstalling Office and/or Windows + Office is a major time sink. Especially when customers are small and can't do imaging options.

Exactly. Since I am the only one that does all this for us, it uses time I could be spent on clearing work tickets.

Well technically those are work tickets too.

@jmoore said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

It's native to, and built into Ubuntu Linux which is our official platform. This means essentially zero IT support needed, it's even in the default install. Even employees opting for Fedora, Pop_OS, Raspberry Pi OS get it by default, too. And our one MacOS user gets it. And anyone playing with Windows gets it from Chocolatey.

This is a very valid point. I do all the installs at our campuses. I spend so much time installing and re-installing because it develops problems for us. While I have mitigated a lot of the install time by putting it in my user image, I still have to reinstall on a regular basis. We have close to 300 non-IT users and it breaks a lot. Too much in my opinion. I have to do 2-3 re-installs a week on average to fix issues it gets on its on.

That’s a lot of reinstalls. Something must messing with the office apps? Antivirus?

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From what I've read, LibreOffice Writer doesn't support moving pages. Besides you, I never knew you can move pages around in Word. I've done that with PDFs but not word/text documents.

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Upgrading NextCloud to 20.0.0 Beta

Already? Always on the beta update channel?

So are wanting to do something like this but with Apache?

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/installation/nginx.html#nextcloud-in-a-subdir-of-nginx

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@stacksofplates said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@scottalanmiller said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@scottalanmiller said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

A big question would be... why do you want to restrict binaries from users?

Thats the sysadmin decision. He considers it a security measure and I can understand it somewhat.

Does he? Because he's not restricting them in any way, and totally okay with all the portable apps delivered in the web browser, right? So he's totally okay with them. Just confused, I'd guess.

Well, I can't presume to know his mind but hes just trying to limit the damage that can be done i suppose. I am guessing that is what he is thinking.

Is this from a government requirement? The only way to do this is checksum all of your executables. Unless you are required to do this, you're insane.

Yes we are a 2 year college and this is what I am told.

That's a lot to deal with for a 2 year college. I can understand the annoyances of accreditation and also following like FERPA requirements.

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

One thing I found about portable apps is occasionally a smarter user will install these. Yeah, it gets around our permissions in Ad because they do not modify the registry. so I do not like them for that reason. I can't have users installing whatever they want.

Back in the days at my old job, we used Sophos to control those type of apps.

@IRJ said in Resentment to Purchasing Software - Split From Unrelated Topic on IT Professionals:

@scottalanmiller said in When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers:

@IRJ said in When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers:

So you have to go to your NTG or whatever IT labor you use and open your pockets at $150-300 an hour when you have an issue.

The obvious examples would be things like Windows or MS Office vs. Ubuntu or LibreOffice.

I seriously have to question if people who like LibreOffice actually use it for business. It is terrible at so many things. This is coming from someone who has used an Ubuntu workstation with LibreOffice for the last 6 years while working for multiple companies. Microsoft Office is 1000x better, and makes collaboration much easier. I have spent so much time trying to get LibreOffice to work or read MS office documents (that everyone else uses), and there has been nothing but issues. Not to mention LibreOffice is slower than MS Office by a good margin. If you work with big documents, LibreOffice is a dog.

I like both but I'm not exactly a power user when it comes to using Office products like LibreOffice or Microsoft Office, so my use of them works pretty well but if Microsoft made a desktop version for Linux, I'll probably buy it.

No resentment from me when it comes to purchasing software, I have more of resentment for those who buys or suckered into expensive or cheap ass software.

I'll provide FOSS as an option if it makes sence.

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Well, righto ...

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$15,750 for a Xeon Platinum 8180 Processor :astonished_face:
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Want Verizon or AT&T 5G? You’ll have to buy an expensive unlimited plan

5G technically doesn't cost extra, but it's only in the pricier unlimited plans.
Verizon is adding some perks to its wireless plans this week, but some things aren't changing: Verizon still restricts 5G service to its most expensive unlimited-data plans. If you want to save money by getting a limited-data plan, you'll have to make do with 4G only—which, admittedly, is not a big problem for most people given how sparse Verizon's 5G network is.

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@DustinB3403 said in Chocolatey install Microsoft Office:

choco install office365proplus is what I've always used

Me too