As much as I'd like to see more support and success stories for Linux/LibreOffice in public administration, as I think it's the right thing to do, putting statements like this into the document makes me question their motivations:
> In addition, according to estimates provided by Green Party councillors, another 15 million euros should be spent to replace or upgrade PCs which are perfect for a small footprint operating system such as Linux, but cannot support even a Windows 10 basic configuration.
If they compare that really with KDE4 on Ubuntu 12.04 I'm not sure how they come to that conclusion. Windows 7 or 10 is just about as fast or for some tasks even faster than a Linux Desktop with a full blown DE. In my experience feels Windows even faster on older machines due to less lag (I might be bullshitting myself here).
And without enough RAM Linux is a pain to use - as is Windows.
Lately I'm asking myself if that Linux advocacy myths that are pretty widespread hurting more than they help.
Yes Linux is fine, it's usable, it's fun. But in my experience using Windows/Linux with DE (Gnome, KDE) on low end hardware (P4, Core) Windows has an edge and feels faster.
Or they are running a minimal i3 setup but I doubt that.
> In addition, according to estimates provided by Green Party councillors, another 15 million euros should be spent to replace or upgrade PCs which are perfect for a small footprint operating system such as Linux, but cannot support even a Windows 10 basic configuration.
If they compare that really with KDE4 on Ubuntu 12.04 I'm not sure how they come to that conclusion. Windows 7 or 10 is just about as fast or for some tasks even faster than a Linux Desktop with a full blown DE. In my experience feels Windows even faster on older machines due to less lag (I might be bullshitting myself here).
And without enough RAM Linux is a pain to use - as is Windows.
Lately I'm asking myself if that Linux advocacy myths that are pretty widespread hurting more than they help.
Yes Linux is fine, it's usable, it's fun. But in my experience using Windows/Linux with DE (Gnome, KDE) on low end hardware (P4, Core) Windows has an edge and feels faster.
Or they are running a minimal i3 setup but I doubt that.