I don’t know if it’s just me that find it highly interesting that they choose to run Windows for these kind of things? Anyone able to elaborate the reasons for this? Surely this just costs them so much extra having to buy licenses for each of these screens…?

Please do correct me or clarify this for me 🌻

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Linux isn’t free at the enterprise level. You aren’t just downloading a Linux flavor and slapping it on everything. There’s going to be a support contract to cover if something weird happens an expert is on site to help fix it within 24hrs. There’s going to be guarantees that if software does x it will work even with future os updates. Replacement hardware will be available and compatible as well.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Worked for 2 digital advertising companies and the cost of Volume License windows is nothing compared to the cost of the rest of the hardware.

    We were paying AU$700 for a Lenovo PC and another AU$800 on a screen while the volume key for windows was less AU$100.

    Why save AU$100 per pc when I have to spend several thousand more per year paying some to run a remote Linux box rather than a windows one.

  • Miaou@jlai.luEnglish
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    7 months ago

    The intern who did it didn’t know better and it’s cheaper to spend hundred of thousands on Microsoft rather than project past the next few years since whoever is in charge will be gone by then.

    Welcome to the work world, where inefficiency is only problematic when it shows up on an Excel sheet.