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So the 'Year of Linux' never happened. When is it Chrome OS's turn?

Naselus

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"I do wonder how they manage in Germany,"

Mostly by painfully migrating back to Windows after 10 years and enormous sums of money being thrown down the drain.

https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/3019223/city-of-munich-poised-to-migrate-back-to-windows-throwing-out-both-linux-and-libre-office

Basically, Munich found that using Linux not only caused all sorts of headaches, but also cost nearly twice as much money as just using Windows would have. Because a) support staff cost twice as much, b) you have to write a ton of custom software, c) even then you still end up with formatting issues in office etc, and d) you need to retrain your entire workforce on how to do basic tasks, and then train any new recruit from scratch. Finally, it was also impossible to be 100% Linux, because of the number of things which are simply not available, so they still had to maintain about 20% of their Windows PCs anyway.

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