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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?
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.
Were you using BitLocker? You need to disable that before moving the drive.
So if sytemd just tells the OS what to run next where does the complaint that it doesn’t “do only one thing well” come from?
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.