Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same. Caroline Stage Olsen, the country’s Digitalisation Minister, plans to move half of the employees to LibreOffice over the summer, and if all goes as expected, the entire […]
They noted that it cannot be guaranteed safe. You can clone a specific version, and perform security audits on that specific version before deployment. Is it a lot of work? Yes. But it is indeed possible.
Why libreoffice instead of OnlyOffice or NextCloud?
Libre is the GOAT
Maybe they don’t want to move to a cloud-based system.
I don’t want a cloud-based office package, and I can imagine that the same might apply to them.
Maybe because OnlyOffice is Russian-made and cannot be guaranteed safe
It’s open source….
Not a silver bullet. This is a deep rabbit hole.
They noted that it cannot be guaranteed safe. You can clone a specific version, and perform security audits on that specific version before deployment. Is it a lot of work? Yes. But it is indeed possible.
Yeah, OnlyOffice is a lot closer to the MS experience which would make it easier for people to transition.
I use both and usually prefer OnlyOffice.
Personally, I missed the shortcut Ctrl + D too much in OnlyOffice sheets, but does it really matter?
Nextcloud Office is just Libre Office via Collabora though…