Comment on Why I’m So Desperate for the Return of Microsoft Word to Our Prison Library
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months agoHave you ever worked in a corporation or in government? Even moreso, have you ever worked at a secured facility of any type?
You don’t just get to install whatever the fuck you want on machines, you know? They have to go through a process, and since this is a government organization, if the law doesn’t allow them to install something like that on a thin client, it’s kind of pointless to reference.
n2burns@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Yes, I literally am a government employee, and formerly worked in the military in Radio Comms and IT, often with Top Secret communications and infrastructure . I am intimately familiar with government procedures.
I never said that end-users would be setting up LibreOffice. I’m just pointing out there’s a low/no-cost solution, and it isn’t a hardware limitation.