The University where I work declared the use of .odt as an institutional interest in 2011 but, unfortunately, the migration took a long time to reach my faculty.
However, the presence of LibreOffice is becoming more visible this year:
1. At the School meetings, you see that the computers now run LibreOffice.
2. LibreOffice substituded MS Office in all lab computers.
3. The School acquired new computers, which where placed in the professors' offices. I was not hoping those machines to run on Linux, but it was good to see that they come with Windows 7 (not the 8 disaster) and it was great to see that LibreOffice was included.
4. Yesterday, at a meeting, the speaking professor delivered her presentation using LibreOffice Impress, not PowerPoint.
5. Occasionally, one .odt document hits my institutional email mailbox.
So, there is hope :)
Now, regarding the new office computer... It has Windows 7 professional and UEFI. My brother Megatotoro activated legacy boot so that we could run Linux distros on that machine and yesterday, he presented me with a challenge: to install a Linux distro.
I was hesitant because I only had an OpenMandriva Lx USB and I had never installed it as a dual boot with Windows 7. I remember having installed Mageia to a Win7 UEFI desktop as a dual boot, but I was not sure this was going to work.
Anyway, I took the leap of faith and proceeded with the installation. OpenMandriva Lx worked like a charm: it took care of the partitioning (interestingly, it said "Moondrake" instead of "OpenMandriva" :D) and installed itself in less than 10 minutes. When we booted the machine (expecting a catastrophe, if I must be honest), none of our visions of doom panned out. GRUB2 picked up Windows 7, that OS was fully operational, and OpenMandriva also launched (desktop effects included, yay!).
So, my brother pimped it up with the Ghost desktop theme and window decorations, we updated the distro, installed some packages, and got ready to enjoy Linux on that office machine.
Yes, I am feeling happy ;-)
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ResponderEliminarsugoi! omedetou xD I'll try it when I make a new build. actually now I run linux mainly on VMs because it's easier for me to back it up (just copy paste the folder where it's stored). However yeah, you better have the hardware you need for that. Thankfully plenty of distros can run under 512 MB of ram so I can open severall at the same time if I want.
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