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they will save 188,000 € on Microsoft license fees per year

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (13 children)

That is such a crazy amount of money on license fees, especially when you consider that there are mostly free alternatives. I am always choosing foss options as I build my small business.

Right now, I am using onedrive, and Microsoft for my business email. Which I think comes out to like $5 a month.

My understanding is that for reliable email, you need to host with microsoft or google otherwise you are more likely to get sorted into junk mail. If that is incorrect, please let me know.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good on them. Those are all solid choices.

I prefer Evolution over Thunderbird, personally. But to be fair, there aren’t any mail clients for Linux that I would say I genuinely like. I’m always open to suggestions, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think they have already switched and went back at some point?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm more surprised that a city in Germany didn't switch to Linux a decade or more ago.

Late to the party is still showing up, good for them.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm not seeing nextcloud mentioned in the article. If they are moving to nextcloud, I wish them the best. It's great for my personal use, but from my experience it's lacking in what I would expect in a work environment. With a government entity coming to use them, it would be fantastic to see some improvements on them because they're almost there.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

An interesting fact about Europe is they've long disobeyed their own procurement laws to choose Microsoft software, whether its corruption or what I've got no idea, I assume so though.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Unfortunately nextcloud sucks

[–] drmugg 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So use some of that money saved to pay some nextcloud developers to improve it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I was thinking about trying it out on my server. Why does it suck?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wouldn't say categorically that it sucks.

  1. It is inefficient and requires far too many server resources for what it does. Won't really run on less than 2gb/RAM minimum, with 1-2 users.

  2. Add ONS seem to be all over the place with lots of incompatibilities, some default add ons that just plain don't work.

  3. In my short testing it seems to be a bit unstable.

In my opinion, it suffers from many of the same problems as other projects that started out and we're developed largely by hobbyists like zoneminder, and even home assistant to some extent. Sprawling growth, no strict architecture, little concern for refactoring.

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

I've been using it for over a decade. I use it to auto upload all my family photos from family phones. I use the calendars to organize. I use Notes on my phone all the time and pick them up my laptop. I use Passwords for all my passwords. I use Contacts to sync my contacts from my phone and Thunderbird. Then I nightly remote backup it to a machine I leave at my parent's. It's great.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Good, amazing but I'm not a linux fanboy who will feel giddy for this. My friends would definitely press me over this. But yeah I'm happy

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