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Munich council: To hell with Linux, we're going full Windows in 2020

hoola Silver badge

Virtualised WIndows

And therein lies the totally fallacy of the advocates of Linux. As soon as your workaround to get an application to work is to install a virtualised copy of Windows you are in a far worse situation. You now have 2 operating systems to support (yes, Linux DOES need managing and patching, particularly at scale) and users who have no concept of virtualisation. Why the hell should a user understand what a virtual windows OS is? They just want to do their work and could not give a stuff about the underlying OS. The options of botched alternatives that only half work and every thing that is then sent out has stuffed up formatting is just not acceptable. Most commentators here are IT Professionals who are happy to spend time making things work. The average user is not and has no interest in trying to make things work. If the Linux zealots are so keen to push Open Source then the only viable option is Apple. That then brings an equal set of problems as it cannot be managed easily at scale and is a serious pain in the arse on any corporate system.

Just endlessly bleating how good Linux Mint or whatever your favourite distribution is will not change things. In order to become mainstream there needs to be a single, consistent GUI and distribution, sort out all the dependency problems and having to compile things to get them to work and you might get somewhere. The only way this will happen is the distribution is commercial and then you have gone full circle. There might be different versions of Windows but that is no different to the Linux versions within a distribution. What Windows has never had is the varying distributions that mean nothing quite works as you expect it to within a major release.

At that point you have a single monopoly controlling the OS, licencing and pricing. We have now gone full circle........

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