Hi Jakob, Am Donnerstag, 18. September 2014, 19:46:57 schrieb Jakob Lang:
> Axel, you said "...for good reasons..." can you give me some more details > on that? Or was that just a general dislike of a Linuxer against Windows? > If there are really good arguments I might be able to convince the team > here to go for a Linux. This is really off-topic in the list, and I dont want to start a discussion like 'my one is longer than your one'. Everybody should use what he is used to/likes most/serves the needs best/etc. But to answer your question: Performance, Security, Flexibility, ...where do you want to start? Lets start with the most important one: freedom. 'Free' not necessarily as in 'free beer', but as in 'free speech'. I have transparency and control over my system. I can decide to run it as server w/o GUI, with a lean GUI or with a choice full-blown GUIs. Ergonomic GUI with some options to adapt, not a scrappy surface like W7 or W8 Nearly everything I need comes out of the box, and if not, I have a wide variety of software I can add (from the standard repsitories.) And if something is not there, I have the option to build it for my system (even if you are - like me - not a programmer. Or not anymore). In that way, redir made it to openSUSE standard.... Nobody tells me that I can only connect 5 Users to my machine (otherwise I have to buy a higher = more expensive license). I can decide when I upgrade, not the supplier (BTW, is there a central packet management for Windows? I dont think so...), and while one security upgrade on Windows is running I have already installed 10 Linux-Boxes from scratch (no idea why this takes ages.....before it rolls back. In some cases) I currently work for a large company, and have a Windows-Desktop. From that experience, I feel that Outlook, Sharepoint & Co. are highly overrated. W7 is not handy. Even worse the server applications running on a Windows-Box with SQL Server. There is hardly one that has no performance problems (probably not only a problem of the OS, but of the application as well). Enough words, I dont want to bore the list, I think everybody can add aspects to it. If you feel you need more info or discussion, send me a PM Cheers/Axel
