Nearly all government departments and federally-funded organizations are expected to propose "savings" of up to 15 per cent of their spending in the next three years.
1. Marc Carney promised to increase CBC funding. Not slash it. This kind of bullshit combined with a flawed voting system, is exactly why people are losing trust in democracy.
2. You want Crown Corporations to save money? I’ll give you savings.
Stop paying millions of dollars to use Microsoft Office. Instead, use LibreOffice.
Stop paying millions of dollars to use Microsoft Windows. Instead, use Linux.
Sure, OK, I think that’s a valid argument for the OS itself and Microsoft Office. But I’m sure there’s a lot of Windows-only software that they use and won’t be easy to switch. There’s a huge price just to making a change like that, including training staff on new software. You can’t just say “let’s switch to Linux” and hand waive that away.
You also need to consider that organizations need commercially supported software. Nobody in their right mind would run some community-supported distro. They would want a commercially supported distro like Redhat, and that’s going to cost money. I’m sorry, but talk to anyone who’s run IT at a company. You need great tooling and support to administer a fleet of PCs, and I just don’t think that exists on Linux.
What PCs and laptops are they going to procure? There’s only like 2 vendors that ship hardware with Linux. That doesn’t give them much choice. I’m sure they have other organizational requirements that will need to be met too.
This whole “Linux is the best and should/will rule the world” is just Lemmy populism. It seems awesome when you’re a teenager but once you have experience working at companies and start to understand what they need in order to run IT, you see why Microsoft dominates the world. There’s just simply no other competitive option. (On the server side, it’s a completely different story.)
Nobody in their right mind would run some community-supported distro
Unless you’re an enterprise customer that pays for enterprise support, Windows is as much of a community-supportered “distro” as Arch.
They would want a commercially supported distro like Redhat, and that’s going to cost money.
No, only if you pay for support.
talk to anyone who’s run IT at a company
Hi, you’re talking to one.
You need great tooling and support to administer a fleet of PCs, and I just don’t think that exists on Linux.
You think wrong. Very wrong.
What PCs and laptops are they going to procure? There’s only like 2 vendors that ship hardware with Linux.
Lenovo
Dell
HP
Entroware
System76
Tuxedo Computers
Framework
Purism
And there’s more …
It seems awesome when you’re a teenager but once you have experience working at companies and start to understand what they need in order to run IT
Windows is the last thing I’d ever want to run in an IT department. And believe me, I have plenty of experience. But don’t take my word for it, just look at the European places that are ditching Microsoft completely.
you see why Microsoft dominates the world.
The reasons why are not what you’re implying.
There’s just simply no other competitive option
Even a Mac is competitive against Windows. Linux doubly so. It’s also the reason that all these benchmarks are coming out showing how Windows games run on Linux performance better than on Windows. Don’t even get me started on security. I personally don’t have any Windows computers in my house, and the only Windows VM on my network can’t reach the internet. Only a madman or someone who didn’t know better would let it.
1. Marc Carney promised to increase CBC funding. Not slash it. This kind of bullshit combined with a flawed voting system, is exactly why people are losing trust in democracy.
2. You want Crown Corporations to save money? I’ll give you savings.
Stop paying millions of dollars to use Microsoft Office. Instead, use LibreOffice.
Stop paying millions of dollars to use Microsoft Windows. Instead, use Linux.
Yes, let’s take away all the good productivity tools from our public broadcaster. That will surely help them.
I think you misread. They suggested giving them better tools.
Sure, OK, I think that’s a valid argument for the OS itself and Microsoft Office. But I’m sure there’s a lot of Windows-only software that they use and won’t be easy to switch. There’s a huge price just to making a change like that, including training staff on new software. You can’t just say “let’s switch to Linux” and hand waive that away.
You also need to consider that organizations need commercially supported software. Nobody in their right mind would run some community-supported distro. They would want a commercially supported distro like Redhat, and that’s going to cost money. I’m sorry, but talk to anyone who’s run IT at a company. You need great tooling and support to administer a fleet of PCs, and I just don’t think that exists on Linux.
What PCs and laptops are they going to procure? There’s only like 2 vendors that ship hardware with Linux. That doesn’t give them much choice. I’m sure they have other organizational requirements that will need to be met too.
This whole “Linux is the best and should/will rule the world” is just Lemmy populism. It seems awesome when you’re a teenager but once you have experience working at companies and start to understand what they need in order to run IT, you see why Microsoft dominates the world. There’s just simply no other competitive option. (On the server side, it’s a completely different story.)
Some governments have been starting this transition already.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/german-state-gov-ditching-windows-for-linux-30k-workers-migrating/
Unless you’re an enterprise customer that pays for enterprise support, Windows is as much of a community-supportered “distro” as Arch.
No, only if you pay for support.
Hi, you’re talking to one.
You think wrong. Very wrong.
And there’s more …
Windows is the last thing I’d ever want to run in an IT department. And believe me, I have plenty of experience. But don’t take my word for it, just look at the European places that are ditching Microsoft completely.
The reasons why are not what you’re implying.
Even a Mac is competitive against Windows. Linux doubly so. It’s also the reason that all these benchmarks are coming out showing how Windows games run on Linux performance better than on Windows. Don’t even get me started on security. I personally don’t have any Windows computers in my house, and the only Windows VM on my network can’t reach the internet. Only a madman or someone who didn’t know better would let it.
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