"Ubuntu 0n the Business Desktop" - an impressive story!

[doitashimashite]

For those who didn't read it yet:

http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&opt=printable&id=5557

[wylfing]

Yeah, I read this before. I actually found it a frustrating read, because the author always acts as if the problems he's facing are shortcomings in Ubuntu. He's trying to shove a Linux box into the middle of a Microsoft-only IT environment, and since it is MSFT's practice to make things as non-interoperable as possible it isn't surprising that he'd run into problems along the way. (Note: Installing a new Windows box into an all-MSFT environment often has problems too. MS protocols are nuts.)

As a thought exercise, swap the places of Ubuntu and Windows and make-believe that everyone uses Linux and Windows is kind of an unknown quantity. So the new-user's experience would go like this:

Can't mount any of the NFS shares.
Can't see or utilize any of the CUPS printers
No useful software preinstalled.
The web browser is confusingly named "The Internet".
Need to run everything as Administrator -- you must be joking!
Rebooting required for even trivial system changes.


And so we logically conclude that you should be very cautious about rolling out Windows in an enterprise environment. There's so much it can't do, and it has horrible, glaring security problems that should make any IT manager think twice. Maybe in a few years, Windows will be ready for corporate deployment, but not yet.