4 ms·

Are your org's documents public? I'd be excited to read about the practical effects of such deployment (from CERN too).

by Boulth 7y ago

Beltiras 7y ago
Ours is a more ad-hoc process than that. I work for Statistics Iceland. We are not changing OS or productivity suite (yet at least). Those that want Linux on their laptops get Ubuntu. We deploy Libreoffice alongside Office. Users using other statistical suites are encouraged to use R. On the infrastructure side we are making more use of Samba (one new DC, next up is migrating fileservers from old WServers over to Samba on Linux), just replaced Exchange with Kopano. We are an org of about 120-150 people/workstations.
- ethbro 7y ago
  How's the LibreOffice / MsOffice compatibility in practice? Was thinking about this yesterday, and was curious how much functional coverage or issues there are with what people actually use it for.
  - Beltiras 7y ago
    We mostly use Office. Out of the ~120 workstations we only have ~10 Linux users. 6 of those are sysadmins/developers. Only 2 statisticians have Linux and they mostly use softwares besides productivity suits. We at least have no complaints yet to speak of. We should do a survey.
  - psalminen 7y ago
    Not the OP, but I tried to do a lot of work in Libreoffice Calc on XLSX files. I had a constant issue of Libreoffice not being able to handle >10000 rows, and actually crashing when trying to do something intense like vlookup.
    - a3n 7y ago
      I worked QA at a place that had huge CSV log files for a device. Sometimes the log files were slow to open in Excel, or just would not open at all. I started using Jupyter and Pandas for my own work, just so I could get something done. I really liked it. But the organization was moving even more in the MS direction, I'm sure any thought of Pandas died after I left. Try something like that if you can.

4 ms·

Are your org's documents public? I'd be excited to read about the practical effects of such deployment (from CERN too).

by Boulth 7y ago

Are your org's documents public? I'd be excited to read about the practical effects of such deployment (from CERN too).

Beltiras 7y ago
Ours is a more ad-hoc process than that. I work for Statistics Iceland. We are not changing OS or productivity suite (yet at least). Those that want Linux on their laptops get Ubuntu. We deploy Libreoffice alongside Office. Users using other statistical suites are encouraged to use R. On the infrastructure side we are making more use of Samba (one new DC, next up is migrating fileservers from old WServers over to Samba on Linux), just replaced Exchange with Kopano. We are an org of about 120-150 people/workstations.
- ethbro 7y ago
  How's the LibreOffice / MsOffice compatibility in practice? Was thinking about this yesterday, and was curious how much functional coverage or issues there are with what people actually use it for.
  - Beltiras 7y ago
    We mostly use Office. Out of the ~120 workstations we only have ~10 Linux users. 6 of those are sysadmins/developers. Only 2 statisticians have Linux and they mostly use softwares besides productivity suits. We at least have no complaints yet to speak of. We should do a survey.
  - psalminen 7y ago
    Not the OP, but I tried to do a lot of work in Libreoffice Calc on XLSX files. I had a constant issue of Libreoffice not being able to handle >10000 rows, and actually crashing when trying to do something intense like vlookup.
    - a3n 7y ago
      I worked QA at a place that had huge CSV log files for a device. Sometimes the log files were slow to open in Excel, or just would not open at all. I started using Jupyter and Pandas for my own work, just so I could get something done. I really liked it. But the organization was moving even more in the MS direction, I'm sure any thought of Pandas died after I left. Try something like that if you can.