Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows

jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• jesterraiin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not sure about this article.

  Back in the day it was hardware incompatibility that was cited as the prime reason to backtrack to Windows.

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  • GlowingLantern@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They still had to buy new hardware, because the newer Windows version didn’t support the old hardware anymore.

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    • jesterraiin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Spot on.

      Windows cut off plenty of actually solid devices and forced users to buy newer, but definitely worse equipment. At least that’s how it was when printers, scanners and multi-function devices are discussed. Especially INK printers.

      Damn, that was, like, an extortion…

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  • GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While sounds like a plausible reason when talking about Linux, what kind of incompatibility might that be - in 2017 in a pure office environment? You could buy Linux computers off the shelf at that time.

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