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The thin clients should be capable of running LibreOffice, or at least running it remotely.
Will they approve installing it on the remoted machine?
Almost certainly not, but I'm just trying to point out it's not a hardware limitation. Though, if it was installed remotely, they would probably have issues printing locally.
Have 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.
I've worked a shitty corporate job where I basically had no power and I had to get approval from a couple different teams for something like Microsoft PowerToys, which is free and made by Microsoft.
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 and limitations.
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.