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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday November 28 2017, @06:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the linux-nein dept.

Munich is ditching Linux in favor of Windows 10, at a cost of €49.3 million:

The Linux love affair of the German City of Munich, which decided to favor Linux in 2003, is finally over. The city has officially cleared the plan to bring back Windows 10 on about 29,000 PCs.

In 2003, when the city decided to switch to a Linux-based desktop called LiMux and other open source software, it showed that free software could be used on a large scale. However, things didn't turn out the way they were planned.

Coming back to the recent development, the politicians who supported the switch said that Windows 10 will make it easier to source compatible application and drivers, according to TechRepublic.

[...] Linux enthusiasts should also note that the city's IT Chief has previously said that any concrete technical reason doesn't back the move; it's all politics.

Also at Engadget.

Previously: No, Munich Isn't About To Ditch Free Software and Move Back to Windows
Munich Reveals Preliminary Costs for a 'Return' to Windows
Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 28 2017, @03:56PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 28 2017, @03:56PM (#602536) Journal

    -1 silly

    We use drivers in Linux Land. What OS are you using, which requires no drivers? Don't even go with Mac. Their drivers may well be hidden deep, but they've got them. Baaahhhhhh - they aren't even buried deep. If you want to run an HP printer with a Mac, you'll be visiting this page - https://support.apple.com/downloads [apple.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @10:30PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @10:30PM (#602705)

    To be clear, what GP was alluding to is that hardware support is typically completly transparent for Linux users.
    In 2017 (and for a lot of years now), WRT Linux and hardware, you mostly hear "it just works out of the box".
    You may also hear "Linux loves old hardware", which is very different from the Windoze experience.

    Use of the term "device driver" is mostly a carry-over from Windoze users.
    In Linux, that is called a "module".
    On the rare occasion where a Linux user has to hunt down a software adapto-kit for a piece of hardware, that will carry the extension .ko (kernel object).

    Not all kernel modules are drivers, however.
    Some are non-hardware-related processes.

    For the curious, more details are available from these guys. [stackexchange.com]

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    • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday November 29 2017, @09:14AM

      by isostatic (365) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @09:14AM (#602895) Journal

      Indeed, hardware "just works". I haven't had to compile a kernel or even run modprobe for over a decade. Software to use that hardware, yes you have to look in apt, but the days of device manager and yellow exclamation marks vanished around the same time as geocities.

      I use Linux because my time isn't free. I have a work Mac, but someone else admins it, and to be fair I rarely find a problem other than the @ and " being the wrong way round.