• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    15 days ago

    Are you going to pay for retraining 30,000 employees?

    Or to make all your software work on Linux?

    Autocad?

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      15 days ago

      Realistically, there are probably half of office workstations, maybe more, where the business users who use them can do everything they need through a browser.

      In that sense most stuff already works on Linux, including basic productivity software, email and calendaring, real time communications through Slack or Teams or whatever.

      More specialized jobs might need more specialized software, but for many workers they don’t need that.

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        15 days ago

        Less than half. A good portion of those office workers rely on Office macros and other bullshit that doesn’t run in the web version.

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          15 days ago

          Unless they ditch Office for LibreOffice or OpenOffice

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      15 days ago

      No, not me.

      I didn’t even mentioned Linux, did I? Can be MacOS or FreeBSD.

      I guess you assumed I did since its the default answer to suggest Linux as Windows is a shitshow. However, I realize that ordinary people won’t change a thing. They will just use the OS that came installed with the computer. That’s (windows) 99 % of all computers sold.

      And yes, I do use Linux but I’m tech savy and a realist about the Windows situation.