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This could be a major ease on state budgets, also communal ones and allow to allocate resources where they are more urgently needed. Might require high initial
by go_elmo 5y ago
This could be a major ease on state budgets, also communal ones and allow to allocate resources where they are more urgently needed. Might require high initial costs for setup & staff education which would amortize over a few years for sure.
- f6v 5y agoIf you could save money by switching to Linux from Windows, I’d expect to see much more Linux machines in corporations.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoThe only places I've ever heard of having linux on their computers are tech companies or software devs.
- go_elmo 5y agoI only saw linux machines in SE companies so far (at least remote ones). Maybe, just maybe, it is because non-tech people 1) cant handle it as cli is needed from time to time 2) because personal preferences & habits make it almost impossible to "force" using linux on staff..?
- f6v 5y ago> because personal preferences & habits make it almost impossible to "force" using linux on staff..? I’m willing to speculate office workers won’t care. More and more people will have smartphone as the only personal computer. So it won’t be about them not wanting to use Linux at work because they run Windows at home.
- namdnay 5y ago3) Excel macros and VBscript
- go_elmo 5y ago*aka cancer / high burden to switch systems to [insert any turing-complete language]
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago4) distribution madness 5) lack of userland backwards compatibility 6) poor commercial application support...