Re:Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back
by noir_lord on Monday May 01, 2017 @10:18AM
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This is my experience of tooling up for a new job, I'm building a fast developer desktop which will be running Linux but we still had to sort out a license for Windows and Office (which will be virtualised) because while I can do my job completely on Linux the rest of the company is stuck emailing spreadsheets and stuff around.
I can't see that changing for a long time, I think people continue underestimate how hard it is for average adults in the workplace to jump around platforms, we are programmers (mostly) we are comfortable picking up new software and platforms as and when we need them but it's a classic case of "what applies to me applies to everyone".
That 50yo who is awesome at his job but 'useless' (by our metrics) with computers is still awesome at his job.
Re:Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back
by sagarm on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:43PM
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Emailing documents around seems like a recipe for errors, conflicts, and confusion around which version is the correct one. Does that really work well?
I can't see that changing for a long time, I think people continue underestimate how hard it is for average adults in the workplace to jump around platforms, we are programmers (mostly) we are comfortable picking up new software and platforms as and when we need them but it's a classic case of "what applies to me applies to everyone".
That 50yo who is awesome at his job but 'useless' (by our metrics) with computers is still awesome at his job.