I wish they'd lay off their lobbyists pushing their wretched anti-FOSS spywareOS on our governments and schools.
Obviously, after a few years, they get tired of that rubbish distro, and go back to Microsoft.
Not to mention the fines the state has to pay when school teachers and other civil servants install Windows without licences and get caught.
So, yes, better if they just keep using fucking Windows.
Funny you should say that, because it has happened exactly that way in the past (e.g. in Germany):
http://www.zdnet.com/article/after-a-10-year-linux-migration...
The Second (deputy) Mayor of Munich, Josef Schmid, said the re-examination is necessary because of complaints from employees, who Schmid said are “suffering” in the transition.
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Sabine Nallinger, who ran for mayor for the Greens, noted that data exchange was especially problematic and didn’t work properly. Schmid agreed, telling Munich’s largest newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, that “Linux is very expensive” because of the need for custom programming.
And getting rid of all proprietary software isn’t realistically an option. That 2008 EC report noted that Munich uses 300 “specialised administrative software packages” to perform its official duties. Although the goal was to replace those proprietary applications with platform-independent alternatives, the reality is that most would probably end up running in Windows inside a virtual machine, which of course requires paying Microsoft a license fee.
It is a marketing victory instead of a technological one.
And what's sad, is that anybody with half a brain could've expected the outcome. But of course, there are far too many people in the government who want a slice of cake.
Schools and government use GUI's for everything and Ubuntu's is just not good enough.
Do you have any particular example explaining your opinion?
Just install plain Ubuntu ffs
One of my employers spent a multi-year effort to replace Ubuntu entirely (with RHEL) after Jane Silber came onsite and agreed that their support organization could not work on the things we'd wanted them to, because Redhat was already the upstream working on those things or the preferred partner of said hardware vendors. This isn't heresay, I heard it from her myself (maybe 4 years ago?).
Oracle seems to have the best salespeople and good for them but I hate how our tax dollars are going to Larry Ellison.
(Do not despair, Mr Trump will make all these evil foreign things go away )