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China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 7 hours ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] shirasho@feddit.online 1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago) (1 children)

I'd argue that Linux has only within the last 3 to 5 years become "good enough" to use as a daily driver for the casual, tech illiterate government official. I've tried different flavors on and off for the past decade and never stuck with any of them due to instability or UX problems. It was only at the beginning of this year that I found a Linux flavor I could actually stick with and use as my daily driver (CachyOS).

Linux was ready for tech savvy enthusiasts 10+ years ago, but Government is never that.

Edit: Also note that government NEEDS stability, which Linux very much wasn't until recently (and arguably still isnt); this is why Windows has starting becoming a liability.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 2 points 24 minutes ago

Also note that government NEEDS stability, which Linux very much wasn’t until recently (and arguably still isnt); this is why Windows has starting becoming a liability.

I was using Linux in the late 90s when my Linux machine would run for months, only being rebooted when I decided to do a kernel upgrade, and meanwhile everybody was running Windows 95, one of the least stable OSes that I've ever used. It literally had a counter baked into the OS that caused a crash if you ran it for a certain amount of days, I think 30. If stability was so important, they'd have switched to Linux back then.

Even in the late 90s, the UI was decent enough as long as you had a decent administrator. I don't think casual users could be expected to set up Linux back then, but that's not a government type of use case.