Calls for city that ditched Microsoft for Linux to switch laptops to Windows
Two influential politicians in a German city that ditched Microsoft in favour of Linux are agitating for a switch back to Windows.
The councillors from Munich's conservative CSU party have called the custom version of Ubuntu installed on their laptops "cumbersome to use" and "of very limited use".
The letter from the two senior members of the city's IT committee asks mayor Dieter Reiter to consider removing the Linux-based OS and to install Windows with Microsoft Office.
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I hate to admit it but...
I hate to admit it but the "cumbersome to use" part is true. Linux desktop was great a few years ago.
Everything is messy these days. Just when we finally got a unified "initscript" implementation, things broke in other areas.
On Gnome's side, Cairo/Fontconfig are getting buggy and with gnome-shell written in javascript, it is becoming too much of a hassle.
On KDE's side, we have the QML mess and many things stuck half-ported to Qt5.