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Switching from win 11 (feddit.de)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After convincing my employer to move away from MS office I can finally make the permanent switch away from windows.

I settled on pop_os for now since it supports hybrid Nvidia graphics out of the box and I am a noob.

Two questions:

I used OneDrive, and especially the file on-demand (all files on server visible in explorer but only downloaded when needed) feature a lot. What cloud storage provider has the best Linux integration? I dabbled with NeXtCloUD but the Linux client is not great, especially the file on-demand implementation.
What are best practices for managing apps? The last time I entertained the idea of switching, I ended up with applications installed from the snap store, flatpacks, some appimages, some through apt. It quickly gets confusing for me when I want a specific program but it, f.ex., is only distributed through the snap store. Is there a GUI (I know) way to see all applications, where they're installed from, with an easy remove button? Akin to what windows offers?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (13 children)

After convincing my employer to move away from MS office

I'm curious how you managed that

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Id imagine the discussion would go like “something something Linux = free something something Windows = money, hence save money by going linux” 🤓

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or going with GSuite instead

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Ding ding ding

From one evil to another...

The discussion went like nobody is properly using the SharePoint, but instead people send emails with poorly version numbered documents. After a couple of attempts to educate the users my argument was to drop the hammer: if you're forced to work online you're more likely to work in the shared folders. If that's true, we'll see. But in the meantime I can get rid of windows. Most of the organisation is on macOS anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do they not know how to use a shared onedrive? It's exactly like whatever google offers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He just wants to use Linux at all costs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He can still use linux with onedrive though, you can edit simple documents on the web. Edit them on libreoffice and upload them will also work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Agreed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Depends, Microsoft has collaborative features that libreoffice/onlyoffice can’t use

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