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I know many public and/or regulated services use Windows because of regulatory constraints. Is that the case here too? I do not want to be that guy, but if not,

I know many public and/or regulated services use Windows because of regulatory constraints. Is that the case here too? I do not want to be that guy, but if not, for what the courts use this and if it's not regulatory, a chromebook or linux distro booting straight into OpenOffice would work well. You cannot say 'people don't know how to operate it' as for this kind of work it is trivial (as is proven by this being replaced by a typewriter). It would even work on the same machine aka no hardware cost. So it has to be regulatory?

neuronic 7y ago
Linux has been tried for years in Munich's administration and due its poor usability for non-technical users and quasi non-existent technical support for open source programs it has been quickly abandoned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux Edit: from the timeline... * December 2013 — Munich open-source switch was "completed successfully". * August 2014 — Migration back to Windows under consideration.
- tluyben2 7y ago
  Yep, I am aware of that particular case. However, this is not the same issue; a Linux/Chromebook booting into a text processor is better / easier than a typewriter. In Munich they tried to migrate everything and wanted to have the users use the full desktop and especially reading / writing office files that needed to go elsewhere. Here we are comparing to a typewriter and a fax. That is a massively different case. One computer can handle both the type writer and the fax; the save button of Libre Office can be made (trivially) to just mail (or fax) a PDF etc. You get all the benefits of your typewriter/fax and none of the misery that Munich had. Also the Munich thing was way too early; 2004 was too early. It would be easier now; at the time it was too ambitious. When 2014 came along, no-one was really invested in the idea anymore; more frustrated I would say. However much of a Linux fan I am; I know that some things don't work. If I would be on a council to do those kind of things, I would be looking at a mix of tables, chromebooks, linux machines and windows machines depending on job description and demands. Windows would definitely be the least used of all of those because it simply is not needed for most tasks most people are doing during a work day.

neuronic 7y ago

Linux has been tried for years in Munich's administration and due its poor usability for non-technical users and quasi non-existent technical support for open source programs it has been quickly abandoned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux Edit: from the timeline... * December 2013 — Munich open-source switch was "completed successfully". * August 2014 — Migration back to Windows under consideration.

tluyben2 7y ago
Yep, I am aware of that particular case. However, this is not the same issue; a Linux/Chromebook booting into a text processor is better / easier than a typewriter. In Munich they tried to migrate everything and wanted to have the users use the full desktop and especially reading / writing office files that needed to go elsewhere. Here we are comparing to a typewriter and a fax. That is a massively different case. One computer can handle both the type writer and the fax; the save button of Libre Office can be made (trivially) to just mail (or fax) a PDF etc. You get all the benefits of your typewriter/fax and none of the misery that Munich had. Also the Munich thing was way too early; 2004 was too early. It would be easier now; at the time it was too ambitious. When 2014 came along, no-one was really invested in the idea anymore; more frustrated I would say. However much of a Linux fan I am; I know that some things don't work. If I would be on a council to do those kind of things, I would be looking at a mix of tables, chromebooks, linux machines and windows machines depending on job description and demands. Windows would definitely be the least used of all of those because it simply is not needed for most tasks most people are doing during a work day.