South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux

Munich successfully pivoted to Linux for over a decade, then Microsoft Germany moved their HQ to Munich no doubt greasing many wheels in the process and Munich switched back to Windows a year later IIRC.

Re: South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux

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Post by Fronzie » Sun, Feb 16, 2020, 6:02 PM UTC

newnewpdro wrote: post #4

RoutinePlayer wrote: post #3

Did Germany try this unsuccessfully a few years back?

Munich successfully pivoted to Linux for over a decade, then Microsoft Germany moved their HQ to Munich no doubt greasing many wheels in the process and Munich switched back to Windows a year later IIRC.

Currently Cern is having a go at replacing all microsoft products, due to high cost.

https://home.cern/news/news/computing/migrating-open-source-...

The institute is big enough that it might be a source of inspiration or knowledge for local governments in Europe.

Re: South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux

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Post by microcolonel » Sun, Feb 16, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC

dmurray wrote: post #2

Is this actually likely to happen, or a negotiating manoeuvre with Microsoft?

Last time they trusted Microsoft, they got their entire country stuck with ActiveX; that said, possibly a bit of column A, a bit of column B.

Re: South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux

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Post by 29athrowaway » Sun, Feb 16, 2020, 6:11 PM UTC

The office suite part is the most painful. I am now using Softmaker Freeoffice (free version of Softmaker Office). It is an excellent alternative to Libreoffice, except that it is not opensource.

Re: South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux

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Post by hsivonen » Sun, Feb 16, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

microcolonel wrote: post #6

dmurray wrote: post #2

Is this actually likely to happen, or a negotiating manoeuvre with Microsoft?

Last time they trusted Microsoft, they got their entire country stuck with ActiveX; that said, possibly a bit of column A, a bit of column B.

That was more South Korea’s own bad crypto policy’s fault than Microsoft’s fault, though.

Re: South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux

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Post by tasogare » Sun, Feb 16, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

Fronzie wrote: post #5

newnewpdro wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Munich successfully pivoted to Linux for over a decade, then Microsoft Germany moved their HQ to Munich no doubt greasing many wheels in the process and Munich switched back to Windows a year later IIRC.

Currently Cern is having a go at replacing all microsoft products, due to high cost. https://home.cern/news/news/computing/migrating-open-source-... The institute is big enough that it might be a source of inspiration or knowledge for local governments in Europe.

The average CERN user is way more tech savvy than random government workers.

Re: South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux

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Post by brnt » Sun, Feb 16, 2020, 6:16 PM UTC

tasogare wrote: post #9

Fronzie wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently Cern is having a go at replacing all microsoft products, due to high cost. https://home.cern/news/news/computing/migrating-open-source-... The institute is big enough that it might be a source of inspiration or knowledge for local governments in Europe.

The average CERN user is way more tech savvy than random government workers.

The average CERN user already does not use Windows or any MS products. All research infra is Linux (Cern Linux, a CentOS derivative), and apart from a stray Macbook, I've never seen anyone use anything but Linux.

Windows was for a few desktops, administrative staff and optionally email (some Exchange or OWA stuff or sth).