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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: 1) by tftp on Tuesday November 28 2017, @09:58PM (1 child)

    by tftp (806) on Tuesday November 28 2017, @09:58PM (#602692) Homepage
    Note that in layman's vocabulary anything that breaks the flow of work is called "crash". Linux itself is very unlikely to crash, but what can we say about the software that runs on top of it? I worked with Libreoffice a while ago; while it imported the comments in a ms word file correctly, they were terribly misformatted. The native comments are fine. But imagine the ire of a poor gov worker when she has to process ms word documents all day long... I am not an expert on compatibility of Excel and whatever is in Libreoffice, but I heard that not all functions and add-ons of excel are there... those are probably the "crashes" that TFA mentions.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @02:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 29 2017, @02:23AM (#602782)

    they were terribly misformatted

    You can get that while simply using a different release of M$Orifice than the creator of the document.
    You can get that by using the SAME version of M$'s crap but having a different printer.

    "M$ Word format" is NOT a standard by any stretch of the imagination.
    Anyone who thinks it is is a fool.

    If your correspondents insist on using MICROS~1's stupid buggy broken incompatible products, you should insist that they send you things in the most-usable form.
    Word 95 format would be a not-too-awful choice.
    OpenDocument Format is the smart way to save documents.

    a poor gov worker when she has to process ms word documents

    Easy solution: Don't accept that shit as input.

    Alternate solution: Put a steep fee on accepting that shit.
    That'll break 'em from sucking eggs real quick.

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