Why do government departments use Windows when GNU/Linux and BSD are cheaper and more secure?

they use both depending on the task
linux costs more to maintain

Lies.

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Microsoft handles Windows to the government for free in exchange for a seat in the table of shareholders

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Have you SEEN the government departments? It's 90% niggers who think computers are designed by the cis white man to make niggers fail, and it's 10% sjw's who think computers are designed by the cis white man to make women fail..

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All of this, and I guess most computers they buy come with them and it would take allot of time and effort to switch

Full stack dev here, I haven't seen a windows server in almost 10 years. What the fuck are you on?

those are private entities, numbnuts

Some GNU/Linux distros have support, e.g. RHEL.

You work in the private sector, numbnuts.

Because Linux is a fricking piece of shit, why is it so hard for you tards to understean? It doesn't work, its crap, people with autism like it, fuck off and kys.

>full stack developer

"I know php, javascript, css, html, AND how to install Chrome"

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>old software
Sometimes old is gold. Agile methodologies and modern RAD tools have failed to produce easy, breezy replaceable software or stuff that scales to government levels.

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there's a law somewhere that everything has to be written for IE6 for standards compliance

you dont want women and niggers to fail?

everything about this. the picture, the text, it's all so true and sad

Interoperability, support, software library, and user familiarity. Munich went open sores and finally threw in the towel after about ten years.

Here's an article:
techrepublic.com/article/end-of-an-open-source-era-linux-pioneer-munich-confirms-switch-to-windows-10/

That is the saddest thing I've seen all week.

I don't need to want it. They do it to themselves. I'm just sick of being blamed for their lack of volition.

>windows
>have to deal with the occasional crash or fuckup
>get power cut, computer boots and just werks

>linux
>server works flawlessly for months with 3-4 month uptime between reboots
>get power cut, won't boot up anymore
>random error about the shitty onboard rage driver even though no configuration files have been changed in years
>have to now fuck around pulling out the server and connect it up to a monitor to fix this bullshit

>shit that never happened

>nigger couldn't fix his onboard rage drivers once and he never used linux again

>what are journals

Did you know the French gendarmerie uses their own ubuntu derivative? It is neat desu

We use both. End-user applications typically are windows because it's ubiquitous and requires less training. Linux and unix are heavily used, though. Systems I work on in the military use unix, linux, some fucking bastard hybrid of unix and windows, etc. Point is, if some fucking desk-monkey is using it, it's windows. If it's a system that requires uptime and stability, unix or linux.

They don't use Linux for the same reason they don't use FreeDOS. Shitty interfaces running shitty software cost more in the long run. Your users should be doing work, not struggling with their machines.

Happened here. We had a sewage backup at NAVCOMTELSTA Sicily. I was called in as part of the group to clean it up. The junior officer told me to pull the plug on the server so we could move the rack out. I told him that was a bad idea and to call RM1 to shut it down properly. He said pull the plug anyway. RM1 said later he had to rebuild the kernel because of it.

>rebuild the kernel
fucking what?
unless they had some REALLY weird setup, I have no idea why they'd ever need to do this.

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Because people who work in the public sector are so utterly retarded that they can't use anything else.

D-DELET THIS

>some fucking bastard hybrid of unix and windows
elaborate

>something goes wrong
>need to call support
>there is no support

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RHEL

bribery

Then how do you explain the fact that so much shit runs on Linux? Supercomputers, servers, etc.

Or you could pay for support from several Linux companies such as Suse, Canonical , or Redhat. Kys wintard.

Biggest software ecosystem
Best office suite
Almost indefinite legacy support
Corporate product line with integrated solutions for every typical need
Discounts for wholesale packages
Training and support for IT staff
Record track and experience working with institutions abd corporations
No relevant competition (macos is irrelevant in this market, linux cannot match any if the above and is mostly used on systems that users don't interact with)
Tradition, inertia but sometimes also corruption

Government workers can barely turn on computers. How do you even expect them to use linux?

>plebdev
>doesn't know shit about enterprise or public sector
Checks out.

>redhat
>support
Kek, I see you've never dealt with them.

legal responsibility and paid reliable support for when things go wrong

What is cis? Computer information systems?

Yeah i was surprised to see that last time they caught me.

30 year old goverment boomers cant use loonix

Loonix itself is a 30 year old boomer.

cis means "comfortable in self". AKA "doesn't want to chop dick off" or more concisely "sane"

Has science finally gone too far?

Yeah but a hippy boomer

>what is Google.com
>what is a brain

yea tell that to a business you jobless wonder

RHEL
SLES
Ubuntu paid support contracts
Hell even fucking Oracle Linux

There's quite a few to choose from, and probably some stuff I missed.

Government computers don't "come" with anything like the mess that is the consumer market. Governments buy 1500 machines at a time that are specifically assembled for them. Governments don't have to deal with "disk cleaner defragmenter we're totally selling your data 2018 edition"

I may be a worthless unemployed NEET, but I could at least run circles around what would likely be some incompetent nepotism hire needing to call support.

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Dont they have access to the windows source?

No, it's because the mayor they elected is a paid microshit shill.

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fpbp

> take forever to find support number
> on hold for an hour
> pajeet tells you to reboot the second time today
> problem is back the next day
> "customer service"

> implying managers are ever touching anything that low level when they can pay people to do it

And any government department where security is remotely a concern uses Linux and open source because auditing code is a big deal. NSA didn't write selinux to use proprietary crap.

>backwards compatibility
HAHAHAHA

>windows can't execute
>wine executes everything

because suit cases full of money op
see munich, where do you think MS' cash comes from? from OUR fuckin taxes that's where, as every single (non-africa tier) gov PAYS for a windows LOICENSE
AND now MS has ALL of our REAL private DATA, EVERYTHING your gov has on you they have, all of your legal shit, it should be a LAW for gov plebs to use gnu/free os
rbt.asia/g/thread/65127306

I can see EUnix becoming a thing.

Extremely aggressive lobbying by Microsoft is the main reason

Consumer and business support are different. But thanks for revealing your lack of employment.

it's not a waste, you dumb nigger, the ones who choose microsoft shit obviously get bribed and pocket a lot of that "wasted" money.

because government departments actually need to do work with their computers instead of customizing their desktop and roleplaying a hackerman

Government computers are imaged just like any other organization which is by using task-sequences through MDT or SCCM.

A more modern way (cloud crap) is by preparing a image that contains essentials (branding + settings + huge programs) and having dell/HP/Lenovo/whoever install that image onto every computer then having the cloud management solutions (intune, airwatch etc) do the rest when the computer has been delivered to the end-user.

That being said, most big businesses are hesitant to move to the cloud since (honestly) it isn't ready for businesses like banks and etc. Government institutions are way more willing to move to modern management solutions than big corporations, so at the time it is usually small/medium sized businesses and government-branches that use cloud-only solutions.

Business support is usually local IT contacting the company who created the application/software, then dealing with pajeet for 2-3 emails before being put in direct touch with the creators.

As a single-user, you'll never get anywhere deep enough in the "customer service". Most likely you'll be stuck with tier 1 or 2 helpdesk.

Business customers with problems will usually get as deep as the developers of the software.

Because service trumps both of those things.
When something fucks up, who do you call for support on Linux and BSD?
>just google it
And then you have a hackjob of systems with a slew of different fixes you need to keep track of an maintain through other updates.
Linux is a shitty desktop solution aside from a couple of companies that sell support services. That's why no one uses it.

>switch to linux to save on fees
>spend as much on support fees anyway

>easy, breezy replaceable software
Now it isn't replaceable if they pay gorillions for windows xp support just to run that software is it?

>or stuff that scales to government levels.
That's just retarded, the big internet companies need much more scale and it works more reliable than government services.

Cause they need their pc to reliably do stuff other than "neofetch".

Trannies stole "trans" and "cis" from chemistry class, cis doesn't mean "comfortable in self".

delet

>Trannies stole "trans" and "cis" from chemistry class
"trans" and "cis" are Latin prefixes, they aren't exclusive to chemistry. They're used in geography too (cisalpine = on this side of the alps, Transylvania = place beyond the forests).

>I have no idea why they'd ever need to do this.
Why do you think for years windows had an actual shut off screen? Computers used to fuck up badly when you just turned them off while they were doing anything. Partition table corruption, driver problems, other general windows problems, losing data. All kinds of shit that could happen.

you're just ignorant.
>There's quite a few to choose from
No.. that doesn't work like that, if you had to pay for support for a "free system" then you'd just stick with the paid option and not have problems to begin with.

This
Still no thumbnails in file pickers. systemd/linux is a buggy mess.

>brain
>in an office
ITs are a bunch of retarded that support a bunch of retarded and you want working brains

Government loves inefficiency and tax dollars grows on the trees anyway.
>>get power cut
Opinion discarded.

i have fucked over both my laptop and my desktop when it comes to power numerous times.
nothing happened.

Newfag leave

when?

Try doing that while running a bunch of webservices and virtual machines that are actually doing something, writing to disk, displaying webpages and running databases

>why
Guaranteed support.
>cheaper
They have blank checks on this.
>more secure
They are given the source code to the OS.

it's not a question of money. RHEL support isn't much cheaper than Windows licences. public sector rats often use shitty proprietary software that has no viable open source (Linux) alternative. it's a walled garden.

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because autists get angry when people try to use linux and spam stallmans agenda-filled copypasta because "herpderp I think you are using linux wrong"

Because support, because it's always been done this way, and because normies don't know how to GNU/Linux.

having said that, plenty of companies now offer Web apps, but then again, the rats are skeptical about it because Web apps run over the internet, which means you always need a connection and you can't carry on using the software if they decide to discontinue its support. plus, your data is in someone else's hands now.

perhaps the best solution i can think of is a Web app deployed locally on the LAN. it's OS independent, doesn't rely on a third-party server, and you get to keep control of your data.