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The article doesn't mention which Linux distribution was chosen. I'm curious about that, since in my opinion it can make or break the project. It's also possible that multiple distributions were used for different cases, which could make sense.

As for user-friendly options, I think Ubuntu and Mint are the best choices right now, with Mint (Cinnamon Edition) being a better fit for users coming from Windows, which seems to be the case here.

Also, I recently switched from LibreOffice to OnlyOffice. I find its UI and UX much better. That said, I'll look into the licensing aspect mentioned in the article, maybe LibreOffice aligns better with my values.

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I tried OnlyOffice once and couldn't stand it. It felt as horrible as MS Office. I'm a happy Libreoffice user, and find that their UX choices make sense once you look into the rationale and are very functional and easy to adapt to.

I guess everyone's experience is different, but I'm always very surprised and humbled when people talk passionately about how bad the UX is on projects, which I use because of their UX rather than despite it. (GIMP is the other big example here)

Linux Mint with Cinnamon (or XFCE before that) was my daily driver for a while, really nice distro that just works and gets out of your way for the most part.

I do personally find the UI of LibreOffice to be good enough (you can even change it into a ribbon layout if you’re more used to how MS software works), the only complaint I have is that for whatever reason it works really slow on my current Windows install. Oh well.

>The article doesn't mention which Linux distribution was chosen

Given they've chosen OnlyOffice?.. Astra Linux?

I don’t know, but i would guess suse

The gendarmerie have their version of Ubuntu so they may go for something similar. Not that different part of the French government communicate or help each other...