The important part in business is to not alienate that one power user who does insane Excel magic and singlehandedly keeps the entire company afloat. There's always one or two of them in any company over a given size

The web version of MS Office is similar enough that for 95% of users it's no different, but for the other 5% they rely on functionality that hasn't been ported yet

That said I do think more corporations should be considering Linux as an option for some of their systems. Too many admins insist on installing Windows on everything, refuse to learn Linux and then in the next breath bitch and moan about Microsoft making their lives miserable

Often laptops are so underpowered, and office is so bloated now, its better.

Something tells me that if a city can do it in 2004, so could a company with all the improvements in 2025. And as with the city, the biggest issue will be the management being idiots (corruption) and/or underfunding the IT.

If a company has to treat their employees like delicate flowers who can't deal with a slightly different interface it's not the issue with software, but the companies' training program / policies and unwillingness to invest in them. And it's not like investments in FOSS IT and your employees wouldn't pay off, all those proprietary licenses are expensive as hell. See link, the city saved money despite even having to develop whole new tools, acquire licenses and whatnot. Lots of small stuff not necessary today anymore.

Not saying it wouldn't be a complicated endeavour, but certainly not impossible and definitely one that pays off.

From my MSP and corporate experience it definitely depends on the organization for how viable migrating some users to Linux might be.

I've seen some organizations that could be migrated tomorrow if the political will was there, and I've seen some organizations where all but 5 of the computer users are running CAD software and interfacing with architectural plotters.

Realistically it all relies on the political will to try something new. With the digital sovereignty push in Europe there's suddenly a ton of political will to try something new and not just buy whatever Microsoft is selling like many orgs have done for the last nearly 3 decades. It's also convenient that Microsoft is trying to say tons of perfectly capable machines are ewaste so there's significant cost savings available to these orgs by switching if they have enough older machines in use still

Git gud, I use Gentoo.

This has been my experience so far as well. But I'm also a cowboys fan who realizes we suck. So I'm used to being embarrassed by a small handful of my own community.

Interestingly it was more or less the same on Reddit as well.

People who bitch and moan about Windows yet dismiss any alternative out of hand aren't "having any issues with Linux." Their issues are (a) with Windows and (b) not wanting to hear the truth of that being pointed out to them.

I'm not sure why you're trying to pretend this post is saying something it's not.

Obviously, being mean to someone making a good-faith effort to improve themselves and solve their problems is not okay, but that's not what we're talking about here.

You mean the communities where the rules forbid asking newbie questions because people visit them to learn about new developments and inevitable FOSS dramas?

What? This is made up. Go to the Ask Linux community and explain where this is happening.

It's closer to present-day Lemmy. Certainly in terms of the concentration of crazy. A bunch of opinionated jackasses with delusions that their particular niche views are morally correct and should be the norm, and any deviation from that self-declared correct opinion gets shouted down. The wrong distribution, the wrong display server, the wrong init system, your app is not suckless enough, you're the wrong kind of Libre, you're wrong about something that a new user doesn't even know exists... and that extends to maintainers and all the way up to the LKML too. If I saw the state of the discourse back in 2022, I would've thought twice about even trying to approach Linux.