Post #48649
2025-12-10 12:29 UTC
Amount of copium is insane in comments. Like, people straight up using fate, like it’s a docking religion, instead of using their head.
Other countries also tried and failed. It’s never brings any profit, instead government usually end up losing shit ton of money. Reason is simple: adoption requires contribution. You need to hire new IT specialist, that knows linux and not windows. You need to do requalification of already existing specialist. You need to adapt software. You need to teach every single focking person how to work with new alternative software. And you need to suffer downtime, cause people still new to linux and it’s software.
Adoption is very hard and those miserable savings on windows licensing is nothing compared to cost of migration. I’m not even saying “hypothetically”, here documented list.
Blind coping will get you nowhere.
Replies (4)
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@sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-10 12:32
Yeah but you’re missing the point. Them choosing to change despite the massive marketing budget of m$ is what my takeaway would be. Migrations are almost never easy.
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@LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 2025-12-10 12:35
I can only imagine all these bureaucrats with learning issues because something needs to be done differently now🙄
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@CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2025-12-10 12:40
What exactly are you trying to prove with that Wikipedia link? If anything it shows relatively wide adoption of Linux.
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@Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-10 13:34
This is such a shortsighted take. After the initial hurdle of migration, you’re free of licenses forever. It won’t take long for the savings to match the initial costs, and after that it’s more money in the bank until the Sun explodes.