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BradleyKZN

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Hi everyone. Whats everyones thoughts on Zorin OS?
With Windows running so slowly on work PC's, i'm considering bringing up switching people over to Linux, but it obviously needs to be smooth for the staff to get into. Currently considering Linux Mint because it just works, but how is Zorin OS?
 
I had limited success with moving users to Linux based systems. The fun part of that was that most of them were developers on *nix based systems, so it wasnt a case of them not understanding how things work.
Users hate change and when something is not exactly the way it was before they complain. Prepare to spend a lot of time dealing with simple yet painful questions.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
I had limited success with moving users to Linux based systems. The fun part of that was that most of them were developers on *nix based systems, so it wasnt a case of them not understanding how things work.
Users hate change and when something is not exactly the way it was before they complain. Prepare to spend a lot of time dealing with simple yet painful questions.
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Im dealing with painful situations all the time with windows, so its just a different kind pain :ROFL:
 
beans100 said:
What work are they doing on their workstations? What software?
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Majority of the staff just need office apps and an email client, which comes included with both of the linux OS's. One or two have payroll software, so i'll keep those on windows.
 
agentrfr said:
ime it is easier to just keep everyone happy on windows. Stick cheapo 120GB SSDs into every machine to speed everything up. They'll think you're a wizard
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That is option 2. Would prefer to not have to spend money though
 
BradleyKZN said:
That is option 2. Would prefer to not have to spend money though
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Ask upstairs to do it as an experiment on 5 machines and get feedback from the users. It should be a resounding success to release funding to up everyone else in stages

The time it saved me not having to help people with slowness issues is unbelivable. The rest of my time I could spend doing actual work
 
BradleyKZN said:
Majority of the staff just need office apps and an email client, which comes included with both of the linux OS's. One or two have payroll software, so i'll keep those on windows.
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Most issues regarding Office apps, from users switching from Windows, is getting used to LibreOffice or the equivalent on Linux. Windows software, like payroll etc, can sometimes be installed with success using Wine.
I almost want to suggest Chromebooks/OS, as a cheap way of getting the Office apps users on something else. Can even look at Cloudready, ChromeOS like OS. Google docs is way easier for people to transition to, than LibreOffice. Myself, don't mind Libre, but I'm no power user.
But with users moving over to Linux, do expect major teething problems.
 
Installing it at this moment, all the other distro's sofar don't have drivers for this damn HP laptop..
lets see...
[EDIT] Does not have my wireless drivers for this laptop either, argh
 
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Stuck Zorin Lite on laptop for student
Made the theme and layout look as close to Win 7 as possible
Comes with Firefox and added Chrome - using Gmail here
Uninstalled Libre Office and put Open Office Linux on it - looks closer and behave closer to MS Office Suite
Even named the desktop shortcuts Word, Excel, Powerpoint ;-)
never told him it is Linux and he is using it since beginning of year and zero complaints

So if your pc life consist of Browsers, Office, Media consumption, Steam and files - give it a try
 
beans100 said:
Most issues regarding Office apps, from users switching from Windows, is getting used to LibreOffice or the equivalent on Linux. Windows software, like payroll etc, can sometimes be installed with success using Wine.
I almost want to suggest Chromebooks/OS, as a cheap way of getting the Office apps users on something else. Can even look at Cloudready, ChromeOS like OS. Google docs is way easier for people to transition to, than LibreOffice. Myself, don't mind Libre, but I'm no power user.
But with users moving over to Linux, do expect major teething problems.
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I hate libre office, it's kuk.

On linux I use WPS Office, it looks & feels like ms office and the file format compatibility with ms is great. It's also not as bloated as ms-office.

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WPS Office - Wikipedia

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[OFFICIAL] WPS Office-Free Office Download for PC & Mobile, AI-Powered Office Suite

WPS Office is an AI-Powered Office suite, highly compatible with Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PPT and PDF. Can be downloaded online and free trial for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Linux.
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OT:

Retailers still selling computers with the OS running on spinning rust drives in 2020 should be hanged, drawn and quartered whilst being pelted with old IDE hard drives (Bonus points will be allocated if you can get your hands on a Quantum Fireball)
 
90% of my users are on some flavour of Ubuntu. Their requirements are email and browser. Some require office stuff and they have whatever flavour is going. The difference, of course, is that so few of them even started here on windoze so very few had to migrate.

We used Zorin Biz for a while but I believe the IT dorks have reverted to a standard Ubuntu.
 
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