No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows
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Based on Ubuntu. Interface and functionality like Windows, users will not feel much difference. BRICS countries committed to their own Linux distributions. South Africa has been the exception.
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I disagree. The part that you don't see is that people prefer to use Windows products because that's what they grew up with and they never used anything else. The majority of windows users only likes windows because posts like yours scare them away from even trying Linux. Windows is a catastrophic user experience and the majority of users put up with that because they think "that's normal".
Furthermore, there's a corporate ecosystem where useless and incompetent IT management gets supported by Microsoft products because the paid support takes most of the expert work out of their hands. So companies are feeding a bunch of microbrains in IT who don't actually do anything worth mentioning, except wasting their user's time with dumb questions before opening a ticket with microsoft.
I worked in environments where MS Office and Star/Open/Apache/Libre Office was used, and Tbird was installed in addition to whatever Windows email client. I'm not even discussing other pieces of software, these are enough to make a point, I think. There was hardly a person who prefered the alternatives. These tools were perceived as slow, unreliable, uncooperative and the lack of compatibility, document-wise, only strengthened these opinions.
As for "posts scaring people away..." Do you seriously think that whatever people write in the Internet is enough to convince big corps, governments and other massive groups of recipients? Come on...
I disagree with your take on corpo environment. If what you're saying would be true, then it'd be far more profitable for corpo to hire a bunch of Linux-oriented technicians and thus save costs of IT layer. But corpos don't do that. You're suggesting a paradox - a body that relies on cost-cutting and making everything as profitable as possible, that also is ok with wasting money on something that's allegedly easy to replace.
Again: you're doing what Linux/FOSS community usualy does. Instead of acknowledging the points and asking "what can be done to make this work", you're saying that your choice is better, good enough to work no matter what environment, what userbase is there, all consequences and the contradictory evidence be damned. It's users that need to change their ways, certainly not Linux/FOSS.
This might work as Apple's strategy, but it won't as hell work in case of Linux/FOSS. 😉
Hiring Linux professionals would require competent IT management. Most corporations don't have that.
And again: you're allowing for your emotions to dictate your opinion. This is wrong approach and indeed one of main reasons Linux/FOSS is hard to sell on. After all, would you really want to work with, and give your money to people who think yourself to be incompetent in spite of knowing you? 😉