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I switched to Manjaro and it's like nothing has changed for the work I do now.
At work we use windows and I don't imagine that will ever go away. I don't know enough about this stuff anyway, but I think there is to much work and risk involved to change.
The biggest problem is training all the employees to use the new system. Even if they're still using the same programs, 80% will complain just because the Start Menu logo is different and the other 20% will complain about something only slightly less irrelevant. Then there's the IT department having to change their workflows (their complaints are actually valid). Then there's the downtime during the transition and the sunken costs of whatever support packages the company had hired previously... Yeah, transitioning a company to a new OS is hard.
Proper accounting would consider the costs of retraining against the existing vendor. After all, that's vendor lock-in, which your vendor will use to raise prices...