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It's all there, just need to get over the fear of change hurdle. Once schools use it by default, everyone will learn it, and things that aren't like it will bec
by fartcannon 4y ago
It's all there, just need to get over the fear of change hurdle. Once schools use it by default, everyone will learn it, and things that aren't like it will become the hurdles.
- scarface74 4y agoI happen to work with governments (cloud consulting department at BigTech) the expertise definitely isn’t there.
- fartcannon 4y agoThen it will come with the money. You think those companies that currently offer it for windows will just fold? No. They'll spend a week learning the difference, and claim to have 20 years experience administering Linux or whatever.
- scarface74 4y agoYou think it only takes a week to transistors an entire large enterprise?
- fartcannon 4y agoMy old company had to use Skype for business for over a year because Teams didn't support phone calls! It was ridiculous. And that's with the so called 'support' Microsoft provided. They survived.
- scarface74 4y agoYou haven’t been on either side of a large technical migration. It literally takes years and millions of dollars. I have been doing just that for years, first at smaller companies and now working with large organizations on the other side at BigTech.
- fartcannon 4y agoI believe you. I'm sure it's quite a challenge.
- chii 4y ago> Once schools use it by default, everyone will learn it that's putting the cart before the horse. Schools, like most non-tech enterprises, have problems to solve that are bigger than the choice of OS on their IT systems. If the end result of switching out of windows is basically the same outcome as having windows (aka, they've replaced some office programs, and other domain specific programs with a linux compatible version), then what is the value proposition _to the school_? The only value proposition of this switch is to society and free software movement in general, which the school doesn't really directly benefit from.
- fartcannon 4y agoWell if schools are just kid jail, then sure. But if they're a place for raising future generations, then as a benefit to society, it sounds pretty good to me. And all for a, let's face it, trivial amount of effort. If the school boards change or the gov changes, so will the software makers. Support groups will be plentiful because they all just follow the money. Just like they did for chromeOS, only this time there will be less built-in spyware.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoPublic schools are kid jail. >But if they're a place for raising future generations, then as a benefit to society Anyone who has been to a public school should be well aware they are not a place that breeds greatness. More a place that hammers it down.
- fartcannon 4y agoIt truly is a sad state of affairs, isn't it?
- whywhywhywhy 4y ago>It's all there, just need to get over the fear of change hurdle How’s accessibility on Linux? I mean considering the situations with even basic things like drag and drop, copy and paste, video chat and screen sharing I don’t have high hopes that “it’s all there”
- fartcannon 4y agoSome of those things are the same (everyone has Chrome and Firefox), but drag and drop, and copy/paste are functionally superior in, for example, KDE plasma so I'm not sure I know what you're talking about. I have to use Windows at work. I choose to use Linux at home.