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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.

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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.)

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