Perhaps they started at the wrong end? Start by requiring everything to be stored in open and well documented file formats, and then pick what applications to use.
No matter what photoshop clone you pick, it’s not going to be better than photoshop at reading photoshop files.
Sounds like they didn’t try very hard at all.
Sounds to me like they should have done one of those group testing situations or focus groups and watched how people really used their devices. They might have been downloading the file, editing, reuploading. Or copy-pasting from MS Office.
From here:
Denmark has ended a pilot that put the open-source-oriented Collabora office suite in the hands of 38 employees at the ministry responsible for digitalization.
The experience of 38 people! Wow.
No official evaluation comparing Collabora’s performance with Microsoft Office was completed. Reports emerging late last year had already pointed to interoperability issues: documents could display blank pages or lose formatting when opened between the two office suites.
So, stop using OOXML.
It’s an excuse fo the new right-wing parties that won the elections in 2025. They suck USAian dick.
one of those group testing situations or focus groups and watched how people really used their devices.
ended a pilot
That’s what a pilot project is. A small-scale test prior to any larger effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_experiment
A pilot experiment (also known as pilot study, pilot test, or pilot project) is a small-scale preliminary study conducted to evaluate feasibility, duration, cost, adverse events, and improve upon the study design prior to performance of a full-scale research project.[1]
The experience of 38 people! Wow.
That’s also why they don’t have a huge number of people involved.
Middle Jutland for decades had no issues using Libreoffice.
Skill issue to the rest of the country. Let it rot apart.
Anybody ever tried to get complete morons off of microsoft?
They’re pathetic.
I think that there are probably a number of factors.
One is that people don’t like their workflow being disrupted, especially if they’ve spent a lot of time building that workflow.
I use GIMP to do image editing. I don’t professionally do graphic design. I haven’t used Photoshop since, oh, the 1990s, probably.
The last time I sat down with a co-worker who did do graphic design professionally, he really didn’t like GIMP. IIRC, at the time, oh…I think that one issue was that the default behavior for Control-V was to paste an image into a layer, rather than as a new layer. I said “that’s…how Photoshop did things too, or at least used to”. And you can rebind keystrokes in GIMP, make Control-V paste into a new layer. But for him, that was disruptive to a finely-honed-over-years workflow.
I think that for a new user, that might be irrelevant. But for someone who spent years building up a skillset around that behavior, it’s a problem. They have a task, have a deadline, and at some point down the road, suddenly right before they’re about to get a task done, an operation that they thought they knew how to do doesn’t work. For them, that matters a lot, since getting their work done by a deadline is what they get evaluated on.
GIMP or LibreOffice are free. But the cost isn’t a huge deal for a business, and for users where their employer is footing the bill, the cost is probably uninteresting.
Who are the people in that country who have become significantly richer during the last few months?
