Comment on Why do so few Industrial product come with Linux support ?
morras@jlai.lu 4 months ago
2 main reasons iny view:
- windows is the de facto standard for desktop ans users management. So each corp has at least one guy used to the interface to dofirst-level debug
- windows comes with support, not linux. So corps don’t want to employe one Linux admin “just in case”
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There’s plenty of support for Linux. REHL, for example; their entire business is selling support. Suse, CentOS, and Debian all have people specifically to support enterprise.
Sure, there’s not a hotline with a guy on the other end who may or may not be more knowledgeable than a 5yo post on Reddit or stack exchange or wherever.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is the way tech is. Once someone gets an idea in their head it doesn’t go away. IT guy at my job told me this about two years ago, ok yeah buddy not like I used to sysadmin a RHEL system for years. No support contracts, or irc rooms, or websites, or books, or man pages, no nothing.
I just stopped arguing with people about this stuff. I get a contract and I give them the best design I can come up with. They tell me they want to use some ancient thing and I give it to them.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I knew a REHL admin that developed a custom theme for KDE that made everything look like XP… it was all the modern bells and whistles under the covers; but it looked ancient and for some reason that kept his clients happy.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh I believe. I have a folder full of schematics named “for morons” on my work computer. It is achieves most of the basic functionality of a modern design except every part of it looks like it was made in 1994 or so. Your tax dollars at work btw.
Did your buddy make that grass hill thing as well as the background?