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Cyberlyra
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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp last week

@nygl YES!!! very doable.

#Nextcloud is the best replacement for Office 365. If you're in an organization you can run local hosting, contacts, shared documents, email, video confererencing, and a whole lot more. Nextcloud is easy to deploy on your own hardware and many hosting companies offer the option to install out of the box.

You can easily #Linux individual machines in the organization. My preferred recco for easy switching from MS is #ZorinOS because it allows you to fully imitate the MS desktop environment so people don't feel lost or like they don't know where their settings are.

Then for the MS office suite tools, #LibreOffice is so, so good. They'll remind you of how stable and capable MS Office tools were like, 15 years ago before they went all Cloud-centered. Does everything you want and nothing you don't want, and NO AI.

Most MS cloud infra can run on linux anyway so it's a question of moving from Windows Server (ugh) over to Ubuntu or Fedora (far better).

LMK If you want more help. And this is obv more about how the organization works and collaborates, as that is my specialty, but I am also happy to discuss other options and issues.

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Cyberlyra
Cyberlyra
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@nygl (PS if you are switching everyday users from Mac you should also check out #elementaryOS, flexible and functional and inviting for everyday Mac users)

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Nigel Wadsworth 🇦🇺
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@nygl@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@cyberlyra Super. Thanks. It’s really just wondering how an org with significant investment in MS backends might move to something else. If the need ever arose. Or prices continued to skyrocket. :)

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AJ Sadauskas
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@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@nygl @cyberlyra I'd second Nextcloud, and would add Odoo https://www.odoo.com/ to the list of open source tools to look at for businesses looking to move off Microsoft.

Odoo is basically a platform with a range of apps for managing just about every aspect of a business.

And then for a Teams replacement, Nextcloud Talk, Mattermost (https://mattermost.com/), or Matrix/Element (https://matrix.org/) are all good options.

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