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Unprecedented Linux Growth in Europe Amid Windows 10 End-of-Life (blazetrends.com)
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[โ€“] infyrian@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Obligatory mention of the Windows 10 Enterprise Edition that goes through 2032 of support.

[โ€“] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Eh, no. LTSC has an extra 13 months and you can get extended support for W10 enterprise, but MS made the pricing very unattractive (support cost basically doubles each year).

But W10 enterprise is going eol for mainstream support in October just like the home, pro and education editions.

I've been preparing our migration to W11 for 18 months now (we combined that with some other changes, otherwise a simple feature update would have sufficed). And no, linux is not an option.

[โ€“] darko@feddit.org 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Would you mind sharing why Linux is not an option? I'm planning to switch a fintech team of 20 to Ubuntu and wondering if I missed anything when doing the PoC

[โ€“] jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Is there lightroom on Linux? That's basically how I earn my bread

[โ€“] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

I think you should be good. If I only had some office people, it would make it a lot easier. But we have a lot of engineers who require specific CAD products (Catia, autoCAD) which would make it difficult, as well as we are completely locked into the Microsoft eco system (M365, MSSQL, Azure). Not even saying it wouldn't be possible for most users, but it would be a massive undertaking (we have around 2000 users in 20 different locations) and I just don't see us getting any type of support for this kind of project. Not in the least because we only jist migrated from on-prem to M365 cloud which was a multi-year project.

We are starting to use Linux more in the server space (Ubuntu and for some applications like Abaqus we will use RHEL) and I'm drafting a proposal to start switching certain databases to Postgresql to save on license costs, but that's about it.