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Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 days ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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I'd like to hear people's journeys and motivations from people who switched over the last few months, and if there were particular challenges that were faced.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Impressive that you were able to pull off the migration for a corporate usecase.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's not that hard actually, at least tech-wise. Our ERP always has been web based and so is our project management (Redmine). The biggest "installable" Apps are QGIS(always worked on Linux), some LaTex Apps and the Affinity suite (which works through bottles)

Officewise Softmaker is close enough to MS Office that even someone with little experience computerwise has no issues.

Combine that with a Proxmox+FreeIPA+Opsi stack in the background and you're set.Fedora 42 Plasma is used as a client OS with benefits from us only having 2 different client models hardware wise.

"Politic" wise I have the huge advantage that I am the sole owner of the company, that my staff is young and willing to innovate as this is basically our job (we do consulting for healthcare) and that we are somewhat small and work home-office full time.

The major challenge was to make people to actually try Linux. Plasma helped her enormously,because, let's face it, it's beautiful. That gave Linux a lot of godwil and after two days it was usually a "I never thought it would be that easy" or "that works as smooth as Win7/10 once did for me and MS destroyed that".

Now some of my employees have privately changed to Linux as well.