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The world is not octal despite DEC.
Just wait, de-clouding isn't the end of it. (Score:5, Insightful)
One day, managers will realize that if you have to hire IT people, there's no difference between Linux and Windows in terms of 'knowing it' because you hire people who already do.
One day, managers will realize that a Linux desktop is good enough, and no, you don't really need all those extra things shoved into Windows that Microsoft changes every few years anyway. 99% of what goes on at the desktop level these days is checking email, instant messaging, and maybe very basic MS Office suite. A lot of busine
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Why windows over Linux in many business environments?
2 reasons:
1) most staff already know windows. Yes, this is a chicken and egg problem for corporate desktop Linux. It is what it is.
2) Microsoft Office. Specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint. People know how to use them and expect them to work as they do. Anything that varies won't be adopted. No one wants to learn a new app to get the functionality they already had.
1 not reason:
1) costs. The cost of the OS is already wrapped into the hardware. No o
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Every major Windows version change, I hear people complain about the desktop differences... and it seems to last until the next major change. Remember when the Ribbon became a thing?
I run default Mint on a couple of computers in my home and my wife, who is almost completely computer illiterate, has no issues switching between it and Windows. We use Bluemail as an email client and sometimes the interface annoys her, but then so do Hotmail and Outlook. I know several companies that somehow manage to use a
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1) your wife is not the typical user. The typical user is more like the DMV person who I had to gently point out that "maybe if you hit enter..." to get her data entry app to go to the next screen when she was sitting there for 30 seconds doing nothing
2) there is still no benefit for retraining everyone to Linux or to a free Office clone. None. Why should any IT Manager do this? It will confuse his users, require rewriting a ton of documentation and yield what positive result for his company? None.
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> and yield what positive result for his company?
Choosing when you upgrade next and perhaps not being on the receiving end of eternal blue like problems because MS don't see it's a problem.
Give the staff the option, just like most get a choice between Windows/Mac.
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Have you run IT before?
The typical replacement cycle is 3 years.
Maybe windows updates are far more than 3 years apart and even then updates to new major version are not mandatory as MS supports the old version for several more years and if necessary a company can pay for extended support to go way longer than sanity allows for.
As far as giving users choice goes, you definitely haven't run a large IT group. The last thing you need is a multi OS environment for your users which more than doubles your work as you now have to support 2 different OS for no benefit and also get the joy of dealing with incompatibility between them. Staff are at work to work not dink around with their favorite OS toy for funsies. At worst, if some critically important exec really badly needs the other OS, fine, you can hire a staffer to wipe his ass out of his budget with no guarantee of compatibility with the rest of the environment but you still provide the standard build on the standard devices for him for when he gets tired of shit breaking.
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Non-profits should do whatever is cheapest. Cash is more important than IT man power time and the expectations ftlm the users and management are much lower.
Corporations: 3 years, 5 years, shrug, doesn't matter. There's no sword of Damocles that wasn't always there. At some point the underlying hardware dies or ages out or gets damaged, lost, etc and needs to be replaced. At most places that laptop is something like a Dell for about $1k msrp but negotiated down from there in bulk. The CFO's office alrea
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No, I haven't run a large IT budget. My career has been almost entirely spent working for startups and non-profits. The amounts of money that you are thinking of as trivial absolutely DO matter in those environments.
The makerspace that I'm doing stuff for currently is looking at having to replace 30 or more computers in October 2025 because they are systems that are not supported by Windows 11. We currently own 5 systems that ARE supported, which means that nearly all of our systems will have to be replaced
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That couldn't be further from the truth. Most large organisations give their users BYOD options if they don't fit into one of the existing buckets.
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And what level of support does BYOD get? Zero.
If your BYOD doesn't allow you to finish your project on time your boss will be cool with that. Right?
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If your BYOD doesn't allow you to finish your project on time your boss will be cool with that. Right?
I have a lot more confidence finishing ontime with BYOD than relying on corporate IT to resolve a ticket this week.