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Re:French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%" by vacri on Monday September 30, 2013 @06:05PM (#6472708)
Sure there is, it's just smaller in magnitude. When the security updates for your distro revision stop, that's the end of that revision. Then you have upgrade costs.

Ubuntu in particular are bad at keeping things the same between (LTS) revisions - so many times when you google to fix something, there's different instructions for each of the past X releases.

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Re:French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%" by tedunangst on Monday September 30, 2013 @09:38PM (#6473534)
Not to mention Ubuntu's definition of "long term" isn't quite the same as Microsoft's definition.
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Re:French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%" by hrkristian on Monday September 30, 2013 @09:24PM (#6473486)
Even on my Arch Linux systems that is hardly an issue, and even when there are complications rollbacks are relatively easy to do, even system-wide.
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Re:French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%" by vacri on Monday September 30, 2013 @10:09PM (#6473613)
How do you roll back "There are no more security updates available"?
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