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German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/operating_systems@beehaw.org

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, good luck with that. There's the famous case of Munich (I think it was Munich?) moving their governmental workers from Windows to Linux. After a few years they went back. Unfortunately the average working enduser is still not ready to just use Linux. Especially not if its a Word/Excel/PowerPoint type of job.

Edit: ah, example is in the article.

[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, just reading the headline, I was like, didn't this already happen like a decade or so ago?