Munich city officials turned lots of heads 10 years ago, when they voted to swap out Microsoft Windows with LiMux — a custom desktop version of the Linux operating system, based on Ubuntu Linux. The current municipal government wants to dump LiMux and replace its 15,000 computers with Windows 10. The city’s general council this week voted to investigate how much time and money it will take to build a Windows 10 client for use by the city’s employees. The city spent millions of euros over the last decade on the Windows replacement project.
I hope thats a joke, its the same reason why people dump Linux for Windows, same exact scenario..
BSD is horrible, where do we start.. if Linux is so good why is Ubuntu, Suse and Redhat much LARGER use than BSD?
That should be enough to explain why not BSD.
Also Windows is used by 85% of the world, in a world that we have many options yet people CHOOSE windows time and time again myself included..
Linux as good a job as it does for SOME things still is very much lacking in LOTS of areas that I will not go into now..
Suffice to say I am pretty much a Linux expert and I CHOOSE Windows instead, because it works better.. utilities, functionality, bugs, Windows 10 is my choice for good reason... I REALLY want to use Linux on my desktop but it has enough issues that it's not feasible.. and its still not mature even after all these years sorry but Windows is a MUCH better product, and it may be a pay for product but I moved from Windows 8 to 10 for FREE, not a dime.. so say what you will about Microsoft if they are sooooo greedy why would they give away a MAJOR version of their OS?
Marketing.. they know their product is better than Linux and they could make people BUY it buy they chose to make it FREE to PROVE their point, and I agree, Windows 10 is better than ANY Linux distro, I spent 3 days with 10 different distros trying to get my laptop to work as well as it did with Windows 10.. sorry it should NOT be this difficult.
1. Most Windows users are not aware that Linux exists as a viable option.
2. I use Windows at work but not by choice. The software we use only runs on Windows.
3. Windows 10 was made free because of the negative backlash from users of Windows 8. It was about not losing existing customers, not about their generosity.
4. Marketing is the one thing Microsoft excels at. Most new computers still come with Windows pre-loaded, and most people never bother to switch (even if they knew they could).
BTW when not at work I am a very satisfied BSD desktop user.
Munich City Government to Dump Linux Desktop
Posted by: Jack M. Germain February 15, 2017 03:59 PMMunich city officials turned lots of heads 10 years ago, when they voted to swap out Microsoft Windows with LiMux — a custom desktop version of the Linux operating system, based on Ubuntu Linux. The current municipal government wants to dump LiMux and replace its 15,000 computers with Windows 10. The city’s general council this week voted to investigate how much time and money it will take to build a Windows 10 client for use by the city’s employees. The city spent millions of euros over the last decade on the Windows replacement project.
I hope thats a joke, its the same reason why people dump Linux for Windows, same exact scenario..
BSD is horrible, where do we start.. if Linux is so good why is Ubuntu, Suse and Redhat much LARGER use than BSD?
That should be enough to explain why not BSD.
Also Windows is used by 85% of the world, in a world that we have many options yet people CHOOSE windows time and time again myself included..
Linux as good a job as it does for SOME things still is very much lacking in LOTS of areas that I will not go into now..
Suffice to say I am pretty much a Linux expert and I CHOOSE Windows instead, because it works better.. utilities, functionality, bugs, Windows 10 is my choice for good reason... I REALLY want to use Linux on my desktop but it has enough issues that it's not feasible.. and its still not mature even after all these years sorry but Windows is a MUCH better product, and it may be a pay for product but I moved from Windows 8 to 10 for FREE, not a dime.. so say what you will about Microsoft if they are sooooo greedy why would they give away a MAJOR version of their OS?
Marketing.. they know their product is better than Linux and they could make people BUY it buy they chose to make it FREE to PROVE their point, and I agree, Windows 10 is better than ANY Linux distro, I spent 3 days with 10 different distros trying to get my laptop to work as well as it did with Windows 10.. sorry it should NOT be this difficult.
2. I use Windows at work but not by choice. The software we use only runs on Windows.
3. Windows 10 was made free because of the negative backlash from users of Windows 8. It was about not losing existing customers, not about their generosity.
4. Marketing is the one thing Microsoft excels at. Most new computers still come with Windows pre-loaded, and most people never bother to switch (even if they knew they could).
BTW when not at work I am a very satisfied BSD desktop user.