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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by pcr910303 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @08:05PM (#22344782)
> 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?

Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:16AM (#22348683)
> 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.

Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by hutzlibu on Monday February 17, 2020 @01:02PM (#22349324)
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.)

Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by mr_toad on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:30PM (#22345120)
> 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.

Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by pcr910303 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:50PM (#22345214)
> 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.

Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by eropple on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:55PM (#22345694)
> (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.

Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by GoblinSlayer on Monday February 17, 2020 @07:42AM (#22347259)
>They want Outlook and Word and Excel

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