When someone says this, it’s a recurring joke, but when I’ve read your comment, it’s the first time I actually think it may happen.
Well, I don’t expect a takeover at all, but perhaps I envision something like this year’s Reddit migration: I imagine some individuals or companies won’t stand for it and switch to Linux.
So maybe in one year Linux on desktop will go from 2% global installations, to 3% or 4% which would be a colossal uptake!
(I admit I’ve not checked the current percentage of Linux installations, it was 2% years ago, but maybe it’s already higher)
yoz@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Someone build active directory and domain join all the PC so that organizations can replace Microsoft .
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
There are many AD alternatives already, like Zentyal and FreeIPA or even Samba. But you’ll never see any existing organization (certainly not medium or large ones) making a switch to a complete Linux environment, because then you’ll have to deal with users - and no one wants to deal with users. I remember when back in the day our old company tried to roll out Office 2007 with the new ribbon interface - there was such a strong resistance from users that we had to cancel the rollout halfway and downgrade them back to Office 2003. Now imagine the kind of hell that would break out if you were to suddenly replacing Windows with Linux…
qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
It’s an interesting thing when companies will gladly take all routes possible to make their employees miserable just to pinch a few extra coins of profit out but when a truly money saving action is available it will not be rolled out because of “fear” of people complaining about minor details.
alphafalcon@feddit.de 11 months ago
IT changes usually affect management as well, while “cost saving” in production doesn’t.
yoz@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Just say its for security reasons and make these users sign a statement saying if they won’t agree then they will be held responsible for any breach or hack and see how easily it gets deployed. End of the day it all comes down to the decision makers and most of them in IT are spineless bunch because I think most of their life they have spend time doing customer service.