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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

microsoft paid thelinuxexperiment to make a video about this? don't think so

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I guess the engagement bait "please contradict the headline"-title is working well, I always want to keep editorialising to a minimum when sharing videos like this, but this was one of those "what they meant could have been made a little bit clearer, and they knew it"-things.

Really the stuff he is talking about concerning that - mainly initial cost vs long term savings and lack of existing infrastructure/expertise - are just realities that are important to address in the political process. He could have gone into more detail considering Munich's attempt at Linux (LiMux) - where to my knowledge the reason it failed was a combination of lobbying by Microsoft, Conservatives (CSU) winning the local elections, and costs (as well as employee complaints) from having processes be more complicated, the latter mostly thanks to Microsoft's outright obstructionism concerning document format standards, as well as expertise being relatively costly (whereas finding MS-certified anyones in the office space was relatively easy). Those are considerations to have, but I think more and more, the advantages of Linux and Open Source clearly outweigh that stuff in the face of rising costs and enshittification, and he does talk about all the good stuff pretty well in the video.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

indeed, the anti-limux stuff was a sort of microsoft marketing campain in disguise.

microsoft lobbied munich to abandon linux after they adopted it while abandoning windows, and also put in great effort to paint the narrative that it was due to linux being bad. they successfully pointed to things that didn't work with linux, masking that the reason these things didn't work were not due to linux but due to not updating or other administrative problems not related to the operating system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm gonna say if the OS of a public administration can run while not being updated that's the OS's fault and not fit for purpose.

Nothing keeping you from changing that if you manage the distro. But still.

Now that I'm done with my popcorn, I thought the video was fairly even handed.