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Re: Anyone else going to switch to Fedora?
de Al Klein 04/07/2006 10:04
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:28:06 -0400, FreeGPL.com
<newsgroups@freegpl.com> wrote:
>I am faced with a decision soon as our company is still on Windows
>2000 and need to upgrade.
>Our network is linux based so aside from some initial difficulties
>with learning the short cut keys is there anything else I'm missing
>about migrating?
Did I miss something? Your entire user base is now Windows-oriented,
but you want to switch them to linux? Is this a company full of
techno-nerds, who can't wait to start using their favorite distro at
the office? Or the typical "I don't *have* an 'any' key" group of
workers, who consider a computer as just another tool to get the real
work done?
Whether your *network* is linux-based, Windows-based or running on
Commodore 64 servers makes absolutely no difference to the
workstations. Or to the users, most of whom don't know the difference
between NOS and CAT-5 - or care. All they care about is "Where did
you put my Start button? You mean I don't have a Start button any
more? Then how can I xxx? You broke my computer!"
If I'm wrong, and Bart PE is one of the prized freebies at the company
holiday party then, by all means, install a well-supported distro on
everyone's computer. But if yours is the typical office, I'd think
twice, I'd install linux and the GUI of your choice on one machine and
get some opinions from the people who are going to have to actually
produce work with the new arrangement. (As a systems analyst, I let
the user design the system - I just make the computer "do that stuff",
but do it his way. The user is MUCH more efficient doing it his way
than having to learn to do it my way - and getting his work done every
day is the name of the game, isn't it? With Windows, with linux, with
magic - the "with" part is pretty much not the issue, as I see it.)