Why are XP Users Not Flocking to Linux?
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@Nara said:
In many cases, LOB applications and/or job-specific applications don't support Linux. There are some that do (and I've worked with a couple), but when deciding on major applications, function comes before platform.Agreed, but my findings have been that it is extremely rare today to find truly good quality software that is Windows only. More likely it is a poor choice that just isn't realized until it is too late. Windows-only apps should be a red flag. There are great Windows-only apps, but they are pretty rare. And they tend to be the same ones that only support legacy Windows. The factors that make them not support Linux, BSD and Solaris are the same ones that block them from supporting modern Windows much of the time. What seems like a good program today often turns into the unsupported quagmire of tomorrow.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Even using Exchange I've started to prefer OWA over Outlook 2013. Smoother, more reliable operations.
I can't stand OWA. It isn't as feature-rich, and isn't available offline. It also doesn't support application plugins, such as CRM.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Nara said:
In many cases, LOB applications and/or job-specific applications don't support Linux. There are some that do (and I've worked with a couple), but when deciding on major applications, function comes before platform.Agreed, but my findings have been that it is extremely rare today to find truly good quality software that is Windows only. More likely it is a poor choice that just isn't realized until it is too late. Windows-only apps should be a red flag. There are great Windows-only apps, but they are pretty rare. And they tend to be the same ones that only support legacy Windows. The factors that make them not support Linux, BSD and Solaris are the same ones that block them from supporting modern Windows much of the time. What seems like a good program today often turns into the unsupported quagmire of tomorrow.
Do you have some examples of mainstream business apps that are available for both platforms that have native clients that don't require a platform like Java in order to run?
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@Nara said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Even using Exchange I've started to prefer OWA over Outlook 2013. Smoother, more reliable operations.
I can't stand OWA. It isn't as feature-rich, and isn't available offline. It also doesn't support application plugins, such as CRM.
I'm in love with OWA for my main office! After we upgrade to Exchange 2013 I plan to move 90% of my users to it. One less thing to worry about setting up, and will allow everyone anywhere access to their email (of course, they will hate the new password requirements I will put on them for it's use.)
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The Geekery have been trying to make Linux "happen" in the office space for the past 30+ years. It's not happening. Get over it. Behind-the-curtain business functions, monitored and operated by geeks hiding in a closet somewhere in the building? Sure; Linux is great. Something that I have to touch, and that other business people have to share and use? Forget it! It is NOT the tool for the job. Sorry. Go back to your closet and watch YouTube vids of League of Legends tournaments...
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@art_of_shred said:
The Geekery have been trying to make Linux "happen" in the office space for the past 30+ years. It's not happening. Get over it. Behind-the-curtain business functions, monitored and operated by geeks hiding in a closet somewhere in the building? Sure; Linux is great. Something that I have to touch, and that other business people have to share and use? Forget it! It is NOT the tool for the job. Sorry. Go back to your closet and watch YouTube vids of League of Legends tournaments...
Priceless advice there! I've tried Linux on and off for 14 years. As much as I'd like to love it, something always brings me back to Windows. As a sysadmin, I haven't seen anything like Group Policy for Linux. Perhaps I missed it somewhere?
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One thing I have noticed about a lot of *nix apps are that the GUI's look horrid. LibreOffice could use a huge facelift. It functions a lot better than it used to be it still looks and feels the same, which is old. I don't want to use a GUI that looks like a GUI I used in 1998.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
One thing I have noticed about a lot of *nix apps are that the GUI's look horrid. LibreOffice could use a huge facelift. It functions a lot better than it used to be it still looks and feels the same, which is old. I don't want to use a GUI that looks like a GUI I used in 1998.
If the functionality great, I'll ignore a poor UI (like GFI MAX), but if both are lacking, there really's no appeal for me to want to use the application.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
One thing I have noticed about a lot of *nix apps are that the GUI's look horrid. LibreOffice could use a huge facelift. It functions a lot better than it used to be it still looks and feels the same, which is old. I don't want to use a GUI that looks like a GUI I used in 1998.
That's a tough one for LibreOffice because a huge piece of their market is in avoiding the ribbon interface and not making pre-2007 MS Office users transition to the new style. Libre really played on their legacy GUI. It's not really that dated, it's just that it doesn't use a ribbon which Microsoft used to forcibly change the look of the era. But the LO interface is not really bad at all. Lots of people actually prefer it to modern MS Office. Not me, but a lot of people.
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@alexntg said:
@art_of_shred said:
The Geekery have been trying to make Linux "happen" in the office space for the past 30+ years. It's not happening. Get over it. Behind-the-curtain business functions, monitored and operated by geeks hiding in a closet somewhere in the building? Sure; Linux is great. Something that I have to touch, and that other business people have to share and use? Forget it! It is NOT the tool for the job. Sorry. Go back to your closet and watch YouTube vids of League of Legends tournaments...
Priceless advice there! I've tried Linux on and off for 14 years. As much as I'd like to love it, something always brings me back to Windows. As a sysadmin, I haven't seen anything like Group Policy for Linux. Perhaps I missed it somewhere?
GPO is definitely a high point for Windows, no doubt there. The reason it is lacking in Linux is because Linux doesn't really have the need. Basic administration tasks can be scripted faster and easier on Linux than GPO is to apply on Windows. Having administered thousands of Linux machines at once, the ability to make changes to a large number of them at once is so good.
GPO is one of those tough things. It's an amazing technology, but in many ways it is one created out of a weakness of Windows and represents a kludge, not a strength. It is an attempt to get Windows up to par with where Linux starts without such a technology.
Linux does have GPO-like options (cfEngine, Chef, SaltStack, Puppy) but they really aren't needed.
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I seen many companies here in our country are still using XP. Even some banks are still using XP
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Centrify makes GPO for Linux - so that Linux can actually use GPO from a Windows Server. So GPO covers both, if you want it to.
Samba 4 on Linux will provide GPO to Windows as well as Linux too. So you can use Linux on both sides (server and client) for GPO if you want.
