▲ 361 ▼ After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros (www.xda-developers.com) submitted 2 days ago* by inari@piefed.zip to c/linux@lemmy.world 69 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] whereitsat@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago (1 child) surprised some other country in general hasn't funded an alternative operating system to windows. is it REALLY that hard when you have infinite resources behind you idea? i'd love some real competition in the digital space regardless. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) I'm not sure if you've ever been in factories or down anything B2B but verified, tested, and universally supported is much much more valuable than one may initially expect. Absolutely no one wants to use a product or service whose existence or support may disappear in a few years or is equally unknown or untested. A government could decide to switch and then get backlash for having a new system that isn't fully or perfectly identical/interoperabile shoved down constituents throats and then deciding in just a few year that the adoption cost isn't worthwhile. The global economy is still running on code written in Fortran and B because it's so vital no one wants to risk changing something that's working. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) I'm not sure if you've ever been in factories or down anything B2B but verified, tested, and universally supported is much much more valuable than one may initially expect. Absolutely no one wants to use a product or service whose existence or support may disappear in a few years or is equally unknown or untested. A government could decide to switch and then get backlash for having a new system that isn't fully or perfectly identical/interoperabile shoved down constituents throats and then deciding in just a few year that the adoption cost isn't worthwhile. The global economy is still running on code written in Fortran and B because it's so vital no one wants to risk changing something that's working. permalink fedilink source parent