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by meeebooo 2311 days ago
But how will Martha in Accounting (or whatever the Korean equivalent of Martha in Accounting is) learn how to deal with the UX terribleness that is most of Linux? Windows she's been using all of her life, it might not be much better but she's used to it.
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pcr910303 2311 days ago
> But how will <someone> learn how to deal with the UX terribleness that is most of Linux?

They learnt to deal with the terrible UX in Windows, no reason they can’t on Linux. :-)

> it might not be much better but she's used to it.

It’s her work, she better get used to it too keep working; That’s a pretty compelling reason to get used to Linux, right?

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AnIdiotOnTheNet 2310 days ago
> They learnt to deal with the terrible UX in Windows, no reason they can’t on Linux. :-)

Linux's terrible UIs change pretty much every month as Linux GUI devs get bored and decide to reinvent everything for no reason. Microsoft has only recently started doing that and it's still at a much slower pace.

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hutzlibu 2310 days ago
If you pick some random community version, then yes.

But you know, there are versions with commercial support out there. And governments could have the budget to actually maintain their own version. (they do btw.)

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mr_toad 2311 days ago
> They learnt to deal with the terrible UX in Windows, no reason they can’t on Linux. :-)

They could, but they won’t.

They want Outlook and Word and Excel, and they’ll exhibit a mule-like stubbornness to budge.

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pcr910303 2311 days ago
> They want Outlook and Word and Excel

I’ve mentioned that we don’t use Word, (BTW, seriously, is there anyone who uses Outlook anymore?) and the dominant word processor used in South Korea had a port to Linux that is fully featured and has a very high compatibility since 2008.

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eropple 2310 days ago
> (BTW, seriously, is there anyone who uses Outlook anymore?)

Outlook is still huge amongst professions that have to deal with people a lot. The calendaring is better than online solutions (by a lot) and the plugins, I am told, for stuff like Salesforce are awesome.

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GoblinSlayer 2310 days ago
>They want Outlook and Word and Excel

They are redesigned every version though, there's nothing fixed to want from them.

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GoblinSlayer 2310 days ago
>UX terribleness

Linux has an upper hand in terms of UX since Windows Vista, and the gap widened greatly since then, go read what people think about metro.

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