Could be small or big.
My answer has always been that, Linux can't handle everything I'd ask out of it that I normally can with Windows. I know the games issue has been progressing far from the days when that used to have been an archaic flaw with Linux for the longest time. Games might not be the issue except for some concerns I have for some games.
I was taking some time a few moments ago, to check if a program called Firestorm Viewer would work on Linux Mint which could've been my distro of choice. And the description written on the linux page described exactly the kind of concerns I'd have for compatibility and usability from going Windows to Linux.
They said that their viewer was tested and designed to function mostly with Ubuntu and while it could work with other distros, it's not to be expected to be smooth.
That's the kind of sentiment and concern I have always had with Linux if I were to go from Windows to it. There are programs and tools on Windows that I have that are used for specific purposes and I know they will not function on Linux. Furthermore, incase anything breaks down, any and all solutions would only be applicable to that thing that would be far easier to solve than just being SOL if I was on Linux.
It is something as a user that I just can't simply afford to deal with on a regular basis if I made the switch.
So while I may not have too much of an issue running games, I won't have too much of an issue using alternatives, I won't have to deal with the Windows ecosystem .etc I will just be running into other walls that would simply make me second guess my decision and make me regret switching to the point where I would dip back into Windows in a hurry.
Every office job ever runs on Windows & Office. Fact of life, cannot change it.
Maybe excluding the smallest businesses where the people are actually still human.
Well, there are alternatives, libreoffice, oneoffice, wps, and gooooooogle docs (browser-based).
No excuse now . .
Can we stop recommending Google Docs?
Google doesn't need your sensitive documents or even more data from you than they already have.
๐ Chromebook owners
You are thinking from a technical point of view. I agree there, but this is not about "can you?"
Corporations don't care about workers. They care about security and legal stuff. So you will use their officially sanctioned OS and tools, or you will be fired for violating their policies. There's no arguing that.
Small businesses don't have such policies, and workers have freedoms. That's where you can do these things. But big organisations are lost to us. Accept or leave.
Realistically it's mostly about compatibility and cost. It's common to have the mentality of "if it ain't broke don't fix it" even when optimizations would improve efficiency and reduce costs in the long term. If you can't justify the cost to transition, and clearly demonstrate the time/cost savings, then executives will not give a single shit.
Agreed.
Still, I wouldn't trust windows after the counter strike fiasco and all the EOL BS cycling around it now. I would push for policy change. It would take time (bureaucracy and all) but will eventually happen
I am a worker ant in a colony of ten thousand ants. There is no chance in hell that my voice will be heard. On the contrary: if I make too much noise, I will be purged.
It's not my circus. If corpo wants to run crappy bloatware (Win11) then that's on them. And they do. Shrug.
I did hear you, bruh ๐
I get it tho.
Best you can do is familiarize with linux so that when they decide that six-figure bill for coorperate windows licensing is pain-induced fuckery, you already up and running.