German government moves closer to ditching Microsoft: "We're done with Teams!"

[Knot Schure]

Save your money and switch to Linux. When enough techies are there, the software compatibility thing will belong to the past.

I administrate over 200 Red-Hat machines.

Linux is not my real education / background, but the job fell into my lap, as I known these sites / systems for decades.

I actually do prefer to use Windows, or I did, until the forced updates, that really broke the work use case. Having things reset on you, after you leave for the day just to find the machine auto-rebooted has cost us dearly.

We have completly moved to Fedora / RedHat for everything, except the actual laptops we communicate with. Thats all AD / 365 / TEAMS / Sharepoint / etc.

I've been trying to work on obtaining an RHCSA for over a year now, and just don't have the time - and I mean that REALLY, I'm a CCNP, so I know what it means to MAKE time to do something, but my workload prevents me from progressing. I've been using RH since Jan 2000, on and off, and for the past few years, pretty much everyday. I do not usually enjoy it, and when Linux breaks, it does not rescue itself nearly as well as MS Windows does, and I find the whole UI of Windows more pleasing to both the eye, and to the mind, in general use.

But I DO appreciate the lack of bloat, and thus the less overhead too, so if it is 'going to go Linux', than so be it. I'll have to adapt.

If I was to describe my Linux skill level, I can rebuild RAID, install, sometimes repair volumes, and given my Cisco network exeperience, can understand much of the networking side when called upon, but I do have to consult notes & references, I just can't internalize it like I could so easily with Cisco. Especially since everything chaged around Linux 7. So if a 100% Linux user is a dev, I maybe calll myself out as a 25% skill level. How does 25% get me by in such a role? I have good notes, and have in-house SMEs (and devs) I can lean on, when databases are not salvagable or in-house code doesn't work, and so on.

So yes, if Windows is just going to continue to get fatter, slower, demand more, then bring on Linux.

 

[yannus]

I administrate over 200 Red-Hat machines.

Linux is not my real education / background, but the job fell into my lap, as I known these sites / systems for decades.

I actually do prefer to use Windows, or I did, until the forced updates, that really broke the work use case. Having things reset on you, after you leave for the day just to find the machine auto-rebooted has cost us dearly.

We have completly moved to Fedora / RedHat for everything, except the actual laptops we communicate with. Thats all AD / 365 / TEAMS / Sharepoint / etc.

I've been trying to work on obtaining an RHCSA for over a year now, and just don't have the time - and I mean that REALLY, I'm a CCNP, so I know what it means to MAKE time to do something, but my workload prevents me from progressing. I've been using RH since Jan 2000, on and off, and for the past few years, pretty much everyday. I do not usually enjoy it, and when Linux breaks, it does not rescue itself nearly as well as MS Windows does, and I find the whole UI of Windows more pleasing to both the eye, and to the mind, in general use.

But I DO appreciate the lack of bloat, and thus the less overhead too, so if it is 'going to go Linux', than so be it. I'll have to adapt.

If I was to describe my Linux skill level, I can rebuild RAID, install, sometimes repair volumes, and given my Cisco network exeperience, can understand much of the networking side when called upon, but I do have to consult notes & references, I just can't internalize it like I could so easily with Cisco. Especially since everything chaged around Linux 7. So if a 100% Linux user is a dev, I maybe calll myself out as a 25% skill level. How does 25% get me by in such a role? I have good notes, and have in-house SMEs (and devs) I can lean on, when databases are not salvagable or in-house code doesn't work, and so on.

So yes, if Windows is just going to continue to get fatter, slower, demand more, then bring on Linux.

I don't think I understand everything you said as I've only been using computers for CGI, video games, novice programming and a lot of everyday power-user use. Yet, my experience with linux started with knoppix and the likes, then Ubuntu, Mint LMDE and finally MXlinux. I've used windows until win7, my favourite one being win2000. My experience with Linux has sometimes been chalenging but not more than windows. MX has surpassed my experience with 2000, xp and 7 which were somehow good, but definitely MX or Mint are way better than 10 or 11 that I sometimes have to use for work.

 

[Knot Schure]

I don't think I understand everything you said as I've only been using computers for CGI, video games, novice programming and a lot of everyday power-user use. Yet, my experience with linux started with knoppix and the likes, then Ubuntu, Mint LMDE and finally MXlinux. I've used windows until win7, my favourite one being win2000. My experience with Linux has sometimes been chalenging but not more than windows. MX has surpassed my experience with 2000, xp and 7 which were somehow good, but definitely MX or Mint are way better than 10 or 11 that I sometimes have to use for work.

Wow, I was just saying this to someone last only last week - Win 2000 was my favourite too!

Multithreaded, lack of bloat, didn't ever 'try to do too anything' that you were not expecting of it. I even use it in VMs in Cisco labbing, for simulating end points.

MX Linux - had to look it up. Seems interesting. Will read more on it.

Thanks.