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I disagree. Ubuntu hosed our central devops MySQL completely on a 10.04 LTS update... As with everything in IT, YMMV.

• Piskvorrr 13y ago
  To reiterate: I'm not saying that Linux is the silver bullet, or problem-free; just that switching _a specific set of users_ to Linux has, so far, ensured the least problematic operation for them. How does your anecdote fit into that, apart from "it both says Linux, so a single user desktop and a MySQL server is totally the same situation"?
  • spongle 13y ago
    Well I'll bite on the whole anecdote thing. My anecdote simply states that nothing is perfect and things do go wrong. A more pertinent question is: is that less problematic as far as you are concerned or as far as the users are concerned? Also are you fully sure that you are qualified to judge this as a success based on the metrics you set out? Perhaps things take them ten times longer but they are ignorant to that fact?
    • Piskvorrr 13y ago
      Ten times longer in the same Firefox, Skype, Libreoffice, Thunderbird combo that they already had before? Not likely. (No, I'm not an UX expert, nor do I play one on TV; but I have seen the users "in action" enough to make an educated guess)