Post by bad sectorPost by noelGerman state Schleswig-Holstei ditching Windows for Linux, 30K migrating.
High hardware speced machines req'd for Windsows 11 and rising licence
costs big part to why
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/german-state-gov-
ditching-windows-for-linux-30k-workers-migrating/
Respectable effort, if for the last 20 years Linux had been taught in
schools (instead of how to 'use' windows) society would already have the
same texto generation with the difference that they could also spell,
compose and code at least some bash but all at the same time. In-house
programming would be emerging already.
Ok, be realistic. If schools had taught "Linux" instead, what would
the schools have likely done? The would have taught /how to use Gnome/
or /how to use StarOffice/OpenOffice/LibreOffice/ instead of "how to
use windows".
The reason being that when you look at the population "not on usenet"
you find that the vast majority want to treat their computer like a
phone. They want only to know which picture to touch in order to "post
a tik-toc" or "read their FB feed". They want to treat their computer
like a "special purpose appliance" -- it will show cat videos, and let
them fill out their tax forms, but they don't care, and do not want to
know, how it works. And they very much do not want (nor understand any
need) to know how to make it do their bidding.
With that said, had schools taught Linux we'd probably have a few more
folks who do "manipulate the machines inner workings" just because the
opportunity to do so is greater with Linux than Windows. Provided of
course the IT admins did not first strip /Linux/ of everything useful
(compilers, scripting languages, etc.) out of fear that the students
might "misuse" something, effectively converting a Linux install into a
system as useful as a base Windows install (i.e., not useful by itself
one bit).