Debian 12 out for less than three months and people imagine that stable Debian was good with hardware :/.
Got a source other than “Germany” wanted to switch to Linux? The only thing I am aware of is the city of Munich switching for a couple of years, which went fine, but then a new mayor from the conservative shitheads who has about as much clue of technology as a towel probably rolled it all back to Windows.
What is “Debian, instead of Ubuntu” supposed to imply? Ubuntu is a piece of shit ever since canonical ramped up the enshittification, first with desktop search expressions being default-forwarded to canonical servers, and then with snap repositories under control of the corporation.
FidiFadi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
jesterraiin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That we’re discussing the topic older than a decade ago, when things were wildly different to how they are now.
I don’t store bookmarks for that old events. Feel free to consult Google for that…
govtech.com/…/german-government-goes-linux.html
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
wow - 2002ish - okay, that really went by me at the time, I was still running on Windows (2000) myself back then, maybe that’s why. Indeed - back then, it was a wholly different story about HW support. Thanks for the link!
jesterraiin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Noprob.
From what I gather, there were similar projects in the past attempted by great many deal of bodies and organizations. Some were quite successful. For example,CERN used and supported CENTOS-based computers and allowed Windows machines but on the “you care of this crap on your own” basis.
As far as I can tell, the most important challenges were:
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
luckily the relevant points have been solved in the past 20 years
In terms of support, however, competent Linux support on site is a lot more feasible than competent windows support. Most organisations nowadays hire braindead morons for IT support & IT management, and then use Microsoft cloud / Office 365 services, and for any ticket the dumb mtherfckers in house can’t solve, they open a ticket at microsoft. And if that isn’t addressed, the user is shit outta luck.
I have seen the same dumb and stubborn idiots in corporate IT first level (and second level) support across most major organisations whose core business is not IT, because - especially engineering - CEOs tend to think “IT is just enabling our “actual” work, so let’s give the controllers authority to procure IT services from a contractor”.
Oh, and yes, that’s a lot of frustration speaking from my choice of words :)