Comment on Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries

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• frododouchebaggins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No offense, but that’s like pissing into the wind. As you know, business drives IT adoption. We have 50 engineers that can only use Windows because we depend on Autodesk software. We spend $50k per year on Office E5. I, as an individual, will never spend in my lifetime, what I spend in 1 year at work, with Microsoft. I’m not saying this to brag, but to give perspective. It’s how you have to drive Linux adoption too.

  It is my opinion that the iPhone became successful because it supplanted Blackberry as the preferred corporate phone. At the time, the iphone did not play nice with any IT management system (like Active Directory). IT staff hated it, but we couldn’t say no because there was no equivalent alternative, Corporate adoption drove the iPhone’s success. Linux needs to do something that no one else is doing well.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Linux ate Microsoft’s lunch in the server space. Sometimes the winds shift.

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  • gataloca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What a problem to have when your engineering team’s skill set are vendor locked. Not that I’m familiar with autodesk or why you absolutely have to use it, but your engineers could perhaps learn to use blender and use a Linux desktop environment and potentially save a lot of money in licenses and subscriptions.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If it’s 3dsMax yes you can switch over, if Blender doesn’t suffice there’s Houdini and many many 3d graphics studios are in fact Linux shops – Linux inherited that particular slice of the market from IRIX. Some seats will still be on windows or more likely Mac because ZBrush, AfterEffects and generally Adobe. If you’re using Maya there’s no issue in the first place as the thing runs on Linux.

      If it’s AutoCAD, though, tough fucking luck. Once upon a time there was Siemens NX but they pulled Linux support and free CAD/CAM is nowhere close to production ready.

      And, no, retraining people generally is usually not cheaper than paying license fees, by a long shot. Maybe if you pay out of your nose for Houdini but actually only need Blender but who does that in the first place.

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      • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And, no, retraining people generally is usually not cheaper than paying license fees, by a long shot.

        Are you speaking of just short-term, or long-term as well?

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• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use Fedora with KDE, and Steam/ Bottles apps to run the games, and that works great.

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