opensource.muenchen.de VS typst

> When Munich did this it never got to a majority of their desktops, is my recollection, it maxed out in the 40%s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

> September 2006 — "Soft" migration begins.

> October 2013 — Over 15,000 LiMux PC-workstations (of about 18,000 workstations)

> December 2013 — Munich open-source switch was "completed successfully".

> September 2016 - Microsoft moves its German headquarters to Munich.

> November 2017 - The city council decided that LiMux will be replaced by a Windows-based infrastructure by the end of 2020. The costs for the migration are estimated to be around 90 million Euros.

> May 2020 - Newly elected politicians in Munich take a U-turn and implement a plan to go back to the original plan of migrating to LiMux.

They've still got a website up where they say some stuff about it, which itself is hosted MIT-licensed on GitHub with pretty regular commits:

> Our strategic guidelines also provide for this:

> > If economically and technologically or strategically sensible, LHM prioritizes the use of open source solutions, in particular to avoid company dependencies. LHM pursues this approach in both the application and infrastructure areas.

https://opensource.muenchen.de/use.html

https://github.com/it-at-m/opensource.muenchen.de/commits/ma...

Well, it's not just about "FOSS" or whatever, is it? As a German state, you're better off not relying on making payments to a North American company.

LibreOffice specifically was indeed decommissioned eventually in Munich (just within the last couple months!), though:

> LibreOffice was used as an office package as part of Limux until the end of 2023.

https://github.com/typst/typst looks promising, both the language and the tooling. I wonder where it will find its place in a world that is dominated by either Word or LaTex.

I hope in a couple of years we start seeing posts like these with Typst instead of LaTeX. It seems like setting this up would be a bit easier since Typst is much more concise than LaTeX.

[0] https://github.com/typst/typst

For writing math notes (especially in vim), I switch to using Typst (https://typst.app).

Here's a few points:

- The syntax is a lot lighter and easier to type fast. I was up and running in half hour after starting to use it. Once in a while I can look up some symbol name in the docs but that's about it.

- Empty document is a valid document. No preambles, no includes etc, it's all optional and the defaults are sensible. Just start typing.

- It's incremental. Live preview from neovim is in the browser and it's lightning fast, pretty much immediate. No pdf sync pain. No build files, makefiles and all that. Just start typing.

While it's not going to beat latex in terms of serious academic use, for personal use and notes it's close to perfect.

(And of course it's written in Rust...)

Except the main theme, which was HTML export? https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/721

Though it's in the roadmap!

I don't use LaTeX for anything these days but Typst popped up recently and seems like a decent alternative: https://github.com/typst/typst

I am surprised that no one mentions the typst. It is super smooth with typst-preview.

I suggest you ask in the discord channel: https://discord.gg/2uDybryKPe. Or open an issue or question on GitHub: https://github.com/typst/typst