They even said that if it proves too difficult, they will return to Microsoft
And, unfortunately, I’m pretty sure they’ll decide it’s too difficult. They’d need capable linux-admins and helpdesk personnel, training for employees and someone to deal with the people who just won’t even try to change. All of that costs money (and time, but that’s the same thing), and quite a lot of it at first and benefits will come slowly over time.
I heavily doubt Germany could make that change. It’s pretty analog country still on a lot of things and stuff like card payments aren’t available everywhere. My bet would be Estonia. Here in Finland we’re pretty digital on everything already but a crapload of offices (both public and private) are pretty heavily married to M365 (and microsoft in general) environment and workflows and have been for quite a while so even if I would absolutely like to see the change I don’t see it happening any time soon.
And then there’s the plain scale of things. You can find at least half decent windows helpdesk/admin staff everywhere but (at least in here) similar linux knowledge just isn’t around. Plus then there’s areas where linux just don’t have replacements on windows environment. Basic desktop stuff is easy, but replacing AD forests with GPOs just doesn’t have similarily easy replacement. There’s of course workarounds and you can get similar end results but you’ll need a skilled admin and pretty tightly controlled environment to do that.
And, unfortunately, I’m pretty sure they’ll decide it’s too difficult. They’d need capable linux-admins and helpdesk personnel, training for employees and someone to deal with the people who just won’t even try to change. All of that costs money (and time, but that’s the same thing), and quite a lot of it at first and benefits will come slowly over time.
They should have a distro that looks like Windows XP, I think they would win a lot of support for that.
Well the good thing is that it is a country that already is very digital and to some extend used to change.
If there is a country that should be able to make the change pretty straight forward icd expect it to be Denmark Germany or Norway
I heavily doubt Germany could make that change. It’s pretty analog country still on a lot of things and stuff like card payments aren’t available everywhere. My bet would be Estonia. Here in Finland we’re pretty digital on everything already but a crapload of offices (both public and private) are pretty heavily married to M365 (and microsoft in general) environment and workflows and have been for quite a while so even if I would absolutely like to see the change I don’t see it happening any time soon.
And then there’s the plain scale of things. You can find at least half decent windows helpdesk/admin staff everywhere but (at least in here) similar linux knowledge just isn’t around. Plus then there’s areas where linux just don’t have replacements on windows environment. Basic desktop stuff is easy, but replacing AD forests with GPOs just doesn’t have similarily easy replacement. There’s of course workarounds and you can get similar end results but you’ll need a skilled admin and pretty tightly controlled environment to do that.