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Another German state plans switch back from Linux to Windows
The German state of Lower Saxony plans to follow Munich's example, and migrate a reported 13,000 users from Linux back to Windows.
Apparently undaunted by the cost of the Munich switch (which we reported in January could be as much as €100m), Lower Saxony is considering making the change in its tax office. The state seems to expect a much cheaper transition, with Heise (in German here) reporting the first-year budget is €5.9m, and another €7m further out.
The tax office argues its decision is driven by compatibility: field workers and teleworkers overwhelmingly use Windows, while the OpenSUSE variants are installed on its office workstations. The office workstations are also ageing and due for replacement, something that helped open the door for Windows.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 28 2018, @08:41PM (1 child)
I'm running a mix of Void and Artix, both with Runit init system, and my machines are at the SDDM prompt in 10 seconds, less the time it takes me to type in and validate the LUKS passphrase. Systemd is no faster than Runit, and in my experience, slower. It's even better than OpenRC, which was my first init as I started on Gentoo.
Give Artix a try if you're not running anything mission-critical (it is still an Arch-alike after all...).
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday July 28 2018, @09:58PM
My main boot-time experience with systemd vs not was on Raspbian... I think they're systemd by default now, but at a point in the past it was an option, an option that reduced boot time by about 50%. Surely both can be tweaked and tuned to similar speeds, but that seems like work best left to other people, especially with mainstream hardware like a Pi.
My new desktop is a NUC 7i5 running Ubuntu 18.04 - it had a hiccough in boot time, was running > 1 minute, but was pretty quick and easy to find the culprit and the fix, I'm at desktop with gmail loaded within about 20 seconds from power on now, fast enough for me to shutdown without thinking about how long it's going to take to boot back up.
I did the Gentoo thing, long ago when Gentoo was the only 64 bit option out there... when that machine died of terminal dust impaction, I loaded Ubuntu on the next one and never looked back. Gentoo was semi-entertaining to watch install, but I've got better things to do with my time.
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