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> Plus, linux support licences do exist. I would much rather RH, SUSE, Canonical, Zorin, Elementary, or any other FL/OSS company get those contracts than Micro

• compiler-guy 4y ago
  As a historical matter, this is exactly backwards. Schools chose windows because businesses used it. Linux and other unices barely even registered until the late 2000s, even at the university level, except within computer science departments. Even today, various linux UIs are somewhat behind Cinnamon ad Gnome, in fit, finish and polish. But in the 2000s it was a joke. KDE didn't appear until 1998 and it was very much a work in progress. Windows 95 had been out for three years and was leaps and bounds ahead. Every year since then has been wildly proclaimed as the "Year of the Linux Desktop". It keeps getting closer, but still isn't really there.
  • Shared404 4y ago
    Good point. I should've worded what I was trying to communicate better - the reason that businesses are stuck on Windows/MS Office is because all any "average joe" knows is Windows/MS Office. In my opinion, if we want to be able to move ahead, we need to start by educating people on how to actually use a computer, instead of being used by it. Afaict, the only way to do that is to move away from the "You may do what Microsoft/Apple say you can do" reasoning that pervades schools. That itself would require some amount of movement from Windows. Ideally, there would be a course where you learn how to use Windows/Linux/Mac and learn about other options, but as that'll never happen I would be very happy to at least see a shift from "Microsoft (and Apple if you're rich) is all there is".