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Tips for managing store through GNU/Linux (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So i'm currently managing a small store and running MX Linux as main OS on all desktops, because i want to spread Debian words in my city, but people are often regretting on using my desktops for my system.

Any tips for making them less fearful on using Linux, i'm about half year running MX as my main OS, so my experience is not as a totally beginner, much less as a sysadmin.

Any help would gratefully appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (5 children)

OnlyOffice could take so much resources for this case. I still want to know the kind of computers they own.

In my case, most of the environments I configure run Intel Celeron from 2013 and 4 GB of RAM. That works well with GNOME and similar.

In more limited cases then I run XFCE and customize it to the user.

BTW, KDE can run perfectly with Firefox and LibreOffice opened in Devuan with 1 GB of RAM and being still smooth.

I tested the version available with Devuan Beowulf (Debian Buster) but didn't try with Debian directly. I also used x86_32 builds of the OS and didn't test the x86_64 variant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

My specs are a bit low low-end

-Intel Celeron G460 1.6Ghz -Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics -2gb ram ddr3

edit: those specs are nearly for many of my desktops, some have a slightly different x86 or amd64 cpu, but many have an Intel Celeron, so i'm just gonna take the their majority for now.

I was a bit afraid of trying KDE for some comments i have read about it consuming a lot of ram as gnome, but i'll try it and see how it works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Contrary to Gnome (which has only gotten AFAIK heavier), KDE has put a lot of effort into becoming more lightweight as part of the efforts to make it run on Smartphones (Plasma Mobile).

You could try to run Collabora Office remotely on a faster server and let people use it in a browser. The UI is a bit more simple than regular LibreOffice which Collabora Office uses internally on the server. But I would try OnlyOffice first (which has the option to run locally or on a server).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I have only used Collabora on Android, definitely i'll take a look at it's server. Thank you so much.

also i'm gonna try running KDE at my personal desktop (which is way better than my office's) on a vm and see how it works, if it works well, probably that's the way i'll take on my office's desktops.

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