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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Can someone get through college on GNU Linux? (sh.itjust.works)

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I'd like to never boot into Windows again. I have VirtualBox installed where I can install Windows 11 if I need to but is there anything that it(Windows on a VM) wouldn't be able to do like accessing hardware devices? Thanks in advance

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not for the price of €12/user/month

Salesforce, ServiceNow, and SAP can never match those prices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wasn't referring to those, I was referring to dedicated accounting software.

€12/user is trivial for any business, much less an accounting business that I'm sure it's lucrative.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, the price is the point. Excel (Office) is that dirt fucking cheap, industry standard, and comes with a bunch of other shit included that can be legitimate value add for a small business.

If you're at a firm that has legitimate need for specialized accounting software, you'll have enough money to get those. But even those generally export to Excel format. Without outing myself too much, I've had comsiderable exposure to financial tech over the last decade and less than 10 specialized accounting softwares I've seen couldn't export to Excel. All of those still exported to csv, or "software agnostic excel" if we want to bend things a bit.

The power of being industry standard for going on 30 years now cannot be overstated.