If you have been downvoted and banned before it’s not because of Wayland. It’s cus you are kind of an arsehole.

You making a meme and then acting exactly like what you are making fun of is kinda hilarious though.

Oh come off it. Obviosuly you don’t click those the problem is the Microsoft support articles are outdated/missing and their own forums aren’t much better.

The chaff you have to cut through for Microsoft products is on another level.

Have you googled Windows issues? Every problem apparently is fixed by running chkdsk or download a “driver updater”. And it wasn’t exactly good in the past either.

Man deleting comments straight up doesn’t work. Anyway. I am going to keep pronouncing it “Poorsh”. I have not met anyone who uses the hard e pronounication in real life.

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That ban also pop up on your steam account? Because if it does that can screw you in other games if they have community servers.

Doesn’t that trip anticheats?

Oh they would stop. Working there.

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I was using my samsung S7 until the power button fell off a year and a half ago. Yes I would still be using it today if that didn’t happen. I was still using it for like 6 months after too.

Don’t most businesses cut the bloat out and put their own builds on it? Sure they put their own software on that will hurt performance but it seems fresh vs fresh would be give better metrics.

Great way to remove crap you have completely forgotten about.

My friend does it atleast yearly out of habbit. He says it runs better but I think it’s tge placebo effect and I am a data hoarder (no the bad kind) so don’t.

For many people the library computer is the only computer they have access to.

Windows lincenses also cost money so if they can get an OS working for free that is probably going to be a massive plus.

Unless you go with “high spec” one they are all basically under £350 and generally way cheaper than that.

Is that not cheap?

Oh yeah no I missread what you wrote. That article is ridiculous, which is about as good as any other microsoft made article for windows.

It also doesn’t tell you how to actually resolve file names being too long either. Which is what I meant is a simpleish fix. It’s one edit in registry.

Yeah. I think the issue is you sent them an article with thousands of words. If I saw that I would look for a different solution.

How did you even find an article with so many words? It is a simpleish fix to do.

Samsung XCover’s have that button. I have never used it for anything and just disabled it as it was just annoying. That little mute switch that apples have though is fantastic used that all the time, when I had an iPhone for work.

I won’t comment on point 2 as I think that has been answered suffiently. On the final point Linux support is more expensive. First line Linux support pays better than first line windows support because well. It is still nieche so workers can command better pay.

You will also have to go through your whole application library and make sure it works, if it doesn’t can you get it to work or do you have to move applications? That will be expensive and time consuming, more than likely someone does something once a year which is really really important who gets missed and you swapped over 6 months ago and now you have to hack a way for this process to work in 2 weeks to meet the deliverable.

This isn’t including training your staff. You have to retrain everyone which is going to be expensive. To be blunt a lot of regular users barely know how Windows works and any change to their way of working is going to be hell. Then you have the cost of retraining the whole IT department which is going to cost more than the regular users.

Sticking with what you know may not be the right thing to do but it usually is the safest option.

Don’t get me wrong I would love Linux to take over the office space but I can’t see that happeing in the next 20 years. Maybe in a startup it’ll work but, moving from something so entrenched in your company is a very big and very scary ask.

Point 2 is a reason it’s not used or used for very specific use cases within a company. Companies don’t want to make a custom distro that they have to support themselves, that costs money.

The final point you made yourself the IT guys don’t have Linux knowledge but they do have Windows knowledge. Easier and safer to stick with what you know than what you don’t.