I still keep poking the IT department about Linux - they say they're working on it...
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I still keep poking the IT department about Linux - they say they're working on it...
Just to be clear, having tried it quite a few times at this point I do not expect the user experience to be much better than Windows. I do, however, expect it to be annoying & frustrating for less shitty reasons - I'd rather do battle with a developer community's oversights or preferences than a megacorp's enshittificatory & invasive greed.
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I still keep poking the IT department about Linux - they say they're working on it...
Just to be clear, having tried it quite a few times at this point I do not expect the user experience to be much better than Windows. I do, however, expect it to be annoying & frustrating for less shitty reasons - I'd rather do battle with a developer community's oversights or preferences than a megacorp's enshittificatory & invasive greed.
Tried this too, and the initial answer always seemed to have something to do with the cost of retraining users, while the definitive answer had much more to do with corporate accountability and the ability to outsource responsibility.
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Tried this too, and the initial answer always seemed to have something to do with the cost of retraining users, while the definitive answer had much more to do with corporate accountability and the ability to outsource responsibility.
@ReggieHere Oh, the comfort of doing business as usual. Considering the price tags on running Windows environments - of which the licensing is just one part, albeit a big one - there's ample funds for retraining etc.; the economy just doesn't add up.
The responsibility math, however, does; nobody was ever fired or blamed for choosing Microsoft, no matter what costs (direct & indirect) are incurred. Meanwhile, switch to Linux & suddenly every second of time spent wrangling OS & apps matter...
