The thing is a little simplistic: Linux is perfect if your job is coding, working with enterprise web UIs, sending mail and/or using Office Suites, which to be fair is like 90% of office jobs.
For the other 10% use cases, Linux isn’t just ready yet because, for example, the company that produces analytic equipment doesn’t even bother to acknowledge the existence of Linux for their data log software. And then there is Adobe. Adobe are just a bunch of cunts.
Then my bro (who is a “Windows tryhard fanatic”) must be a wizard or some sort because he simply doesnt care regarding security and privacy yet his PC is still intact for YEARS.
Considering the captcha doesn’t actually know, and just judges if you are correct based off of other users entries I would click on it. My guess is most users would click it, but it’s ambiguous enough that you’d probably pass the captcha either way.
This post is laughable. I like Linux, it’s very powerful, but it’s like trying to daily drive a kit car. Shit falls apart constantly, and you need to be ready to dive into the guts of it to fix it. I wouldn’t expect the people in accounting, or marketing, or whatever to be willing or able to do that.
Yes it’s free, but how much will you spend in training, lost productivity due to down time, increased cost of IT time fixing everything?
Compile your own kernal, or build your own OS??? What a batshit idea. No company I have ever worked at would see that as a good use of time or money.
People just want to use simple tools that they are familiar with. That is Windows and Office.
One of our customers previously had an IT provider who set up an all-linux infrastructure.
He told us it almost brought his business down, since he was unable to find employees.
Every time he mentioned that they’d have to work with a Linux PC (as a secretary or bookkeeper) they backed out.
You are clueless if you think Linux is easier to support than Windows for anyone who isn’t an engineer. You clearly have never had to support non technical users. 🤦♂️
Linux is free🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nobody, and I mean nobody who has ever run a successful business had cared Jack shit over the $100 fee vs the 150k per head it’s going to cost successfully maintain a usable LDE for an entire compan you’ll never find viruses 🤣 good lord you’ve drank that koolaid.
Edit: ohhh fuck it’s the guy hacking up his windows machine around his it teams back 🤣
Boy is on a quest to make THIS the heart of the Linux desktop.
In classrooms children shouldn’t remove their phones from their pockets at all, they are there to focus on the class. If we removed our phones from our pockets, they would be confiscated until the end of class, and rightly so.
School is for paying attention and learning, not for going into your own little world on your phone (which we’re all guilty of).
Also, the only time you need to use a computer at school is during IT lessons, or study/research sessions. School is the time that we learn and perfect our handwriting abilities, and our abilities to read through books, make notes based on what the teacher is saying, or writing on the blackboard, etc. It is not appropriate to pull out a laptop and use that instead, because that won’t teach the child these important hand skills.
I’m talking about primary school and secondary school, and mostly college too. Once the student is 18 and begins university, there’s nothing stopping them from using computers or phones, it’s up to them to regulate their own attention and such.
Why do you need to learn handwriting skills? I personally write everything to notes on my phone or laptop in real life and the only place where I need to hand-write long pieces of text is in school. Writing on a blackboard skills must be a joke. School should teach you to make notes based on what the teacher is saying (the skill here is being able to find the useful information and being able to store it), but the method of writing it should be the method you are gonna use irl. For me and most people in my age I believe, it’s writing it on phone or a laptop. Tbf phones in school bring various problems, but I don’t think lack of writing skills is among them.
Well, at University, we learned that students retain more of what they’re learning, when writing. Our brains are not fully adapted yet to process typed input as well as written.
Here is the thing, it can, it has been ready for most thing but… business is bussiness.
Companies like blame someone when things go wrong, if they chose open-source there’s isn’t someone to sue then;
Buying proprietary stuff means you’re outsourcing the risks of such product;
Corruption pushes for proprietary: they might be buying software that is made by someone that is close to the CTO, CEO or other decision marker in the company, an old friend, family or straight under the table corruption;
Most non-tech companies use services from consulting companies in order to get their software developed / running. Consulting companies often fall under the last point that besides that they have have large incentives from companies like Microsoft to push their proprietary services. For eg. Microsoft will easily provide all of a consulting companies employees with free Azure services, Office and other discounts if they enter in an exclusivity agreement to sell their tech stack. To make things worse consulting companies live of cheap developers (like interns) and Microsoft and their platform makes things easier for anyone to code and deploy;
Microsoft provider a cohesive ecosystem of products that integrate really well with each other and usually don’t require much effort to get things going - open-source however, usually requires custom development and a ton of work to work out the “sharp angles” between multiple solutions that aren’t related and might not be easily compatible with each other;
Open-source requires a level of expertise that more than half of the developers and IT professionals simply don’t have. This aspect reinforces the last point even more. Senior open-source experts are more expensive than simply buying proprietary solutions;
If we consider the price of a senior open-source expert + software costs (usually free) the cost of open-source is considerable lower than the cost of cheap developers + proprietary solutions, however consider we are talking about companies. Companies will always prefer to hire more less expensive and less proficient people because that means they’re easier to replace and you’ll pay less taxes;
Companies will prefer to hire services from other companies instead of employees thus making proprietary vendors more compelling. This happens because from an accounting / investors perspective employees are bad and subscriptions are cool (less taxes, no responsibilities etc);
The companies who build proprietary solutions work really hard to get vendors to sell their software, they provide commissions, support and the promises that if anything goes wrong they’ll be there. This increases the number of proprietary-only vendors which reinforces everything above. If you’re starting to sell software or networking services there’s little incentive for you to go pure “open-source”. With less companies, less visibility, less professionals (and more expensive), less margins and less positive market image, less customers and lesser profits.
Unfortunately things are really poised and rigged against open-source solutions and anyone who tries to push for them. The “experts” who work in consulting companies are part of this as they usually don’t even know how to do things without the property solutions. Let me give you an example, once I had to work with E&Y, one of those big consulting companies, and I realized some awkward things while having conversations with both low level employees and partners / middle management, they weren’t aware that there are alternatives most of the time. A manager of a digital transformation and cloud solutions team that started his career E&Y, wasn’t aware that there was open-source alternatives to Google Workplace and Microsoft 365 for e-mail. I probed a TON around that and the guy, a software engineer with an university degree, didn’t even know that was Postfix was and the history of email.
A caveat to the cost and expertise aspect: in Europe (or in France at least) for security reasons a company must have the servers secured for all data and authentification, which means any company that’s big enough will have its own Microsoft server infrastructure. It takes a big team with this specific expertise to run this infrastructure.
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