Posted on 07/27/2018 4:56:09 AM PDT by dayglored
Lower Saxony says 'auf wiedersehen, pinguin'
The German state of Lower Saxony plans to follow Munich's example, and migrate a reported 13,000 users from Linux back to Windows.
Apparently undaunted by the cost of the Munich switch (which we reported in January could be as much as €100m), Lower Saxony is considering making the change in its tax office. The state seems to expect a much cheaper transition, with Heise (in German here) reporting the first-year budget is €5.9m, and another €7m further out.
The tax office argues its decision is driven by compatibility: field workers and teleworkers overwhelmingly use Windows, while the OpenSUSE variants are installed on its office workstations. The office workstations are also ageing and due for replacement, something that helped open the door for Windows.
The move is in its early stages, however, with the Lower Saxony government currently defining the “framework conditions” of the migration; this will be followed by a pre-selection of possible solutions.
We can only hope Lower Saxony has a better time of it than Munich. After 15 years under the yoke of the Penguinistas, Munich voted in February 2017 to start the long march back to Microsoft.
As we noted in November 2017, some Microsoft software proved hard to kill even after so long. For example, Munich stayed with Microsoft Exchange for mail servers. ®
*Linux Ping*
I ditched the beast called Exchange. It was far too difficult to install it much less keep it running. Its own updates would permanently crash an Exchange installation.
I’ve been using hMailServer. It installed within seconds, has never crashed, updates work flawlessly, and adding domain, users, and performing configurations are pathetically simple. hMailServer just works.
Run Linux as your desktop for email and browsing, use a Windows VM to do all the Windows stuff. Linux protects you better from viruses and malware which comes from email and browsing.
Linux is great but not as a deployed desktop.
I use it for small scale servers and it does a great job a that.
But on desktops for non-techhies? Bad idea.
That's exactly what I do at work (I'm an IT System Admin).
Linux is installed on my 12 year old laptop and it runs great. Linux Office is a good alternative to MS Office. Like the additional security too.
Best of all it is free!
Hackers love all versions of Windows.
Depends on the distro. Also how it is pushed out to a workforce.
Trying the “softly-softly” approach probably works best.
[[Run Linux as your desktop for email and browsing, use a Windows VM to do all the Windows stuff. Linux protects you better from viruses and malware which comes from email and browsing.]]
Been sayign this for awhile now- I run linux as my main startup OS. I run windows 10 in a virtual machine (which i rarely use as I’ll explain in a bit) and I dual boot into windows 7 when i want to run windows only software or games. Do all my Internet stuff during the day on linux because of gthe decreased risk of viruses- email, etc- then at night do windows gaming (Racing Sims). Love the fact that i don’t have to constantly battle viruses because some malicious website or code redirects browser anymore- it just got to the point with windows it was a nearly weekly event with windows trying to keep the computer free from viruses.
Also- linux updates are very quick- windows updates (at least in windows 7) took a long long time- I don’t miss that anymore.
Also- if i ever have to reinstall linux- I can be up and running in about an hour as opposed to days with windows (After doing all the updates, customizations, software updates etc).
Meh- I’ll stick with linux- much more pleasant experience in my opinion- (Note- I do not get into all the geeky command line stuff- no need for me to- linux just works well enough for email, internet etc that i don’t have to muck with that stuff)
Or if not "love", let's say "appreciate". :-)
Just for fun I just installed Ubuntu on my 2003 Dell Dimension 8300 and it is working! That is a 15 year old computer!
It is a little slow by today’s standards but it is still useable.
Linux is a lot fatter now. We use it for our mainframe (command prompt only) and our Java development VM.
I love Linux and I am a wintel user.
Have linux installed on another computer as our shoutcast MIXX music server. Could open a port on my router and make it available on the internet.
Best of all, its free!!!
I switched to Linux Mint on the desktop and I can’t see any reason to ever use Windows again.
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