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> ...will give up hope and move from its LiMux-brand of Linux to Microsoft Windows. I don't understand this. Why does it have to be all or nothing? Give cert
by ToastyMallows 12y ago
> ...will give up hope and move from its LiMux-brand of Linux to Microsoft Windows.
I don't understand this. Why does it have to be all or nothing? Give certain people Windows (Photoshop or Video editing needs?), and certain people Linux. Hell some people may even need Macs. If you move any subset of your user group off of Windows, you'll be saving money.
- dllthomas 12y ago"If you move any subset of your user group off of Windows, you'll be saving money." Unfortunately, that isn't quite guaranteed, though it may well be the case. Depending on the circumstances, I could see the rise in cost of support for a heterogeneous setup exceeding the savings of foregoing some Windows licenses. Certainly that's going to be the case in the degenerate case of hiring a Linux sysadmin to switch one computer from Windows to Linux while retaining your Windows sysadmins for a pile of other Windows computers.
- ToastyMallows 12y agoI see your point, I guess there's probably a number of users that would need to be hit to become cost efficient. It just always seems like people say "Linux doesn't run X, so every user needs to run Windows/Mac", which may not necessarily be the best approach.
- dllthomas 12y agoCertainly, and I expect on the scale of Munich they'd have more than a couple users that could do Linux just fine. Still, their spreadsheets, not mine...