I don’t know why so many companies decide to use Windows these days when there’s Unix/Linux But it seems like a lot of companies still choose to use Windows over anything else. It runs like crap, and the latest version, Windows 11, is shockingly bad. There are so many frustrating things that come standard with Windows 11 that have no place in a business context. For example, Microsoft shopping. This comes loaded on your Windows 11 browser, edge. I couldn’t find a way to turn it off, so it’s just there. Why in the world would I need that on my work computer? Also, Microsoft start news or MSN is heavily embedded into the edge browser. Lots of trackers and personalization features which again, should not be included in a business computer. It tracks every website I go to, recommends ads and personalizations to me, I can’t download any other browser because this is the standard one that comes on the computer
The operating system itself is also incredibly frustrating. There’s a context menu when you right click things that you cannot get rid of because your company sets policy, and now you have to have a stupid show more options menu every time you click something, so try and imagine a few hundred to a few thousand clicks a day having to navigate with that, very frustrating. Also, Windows start menu search. You can disable it on a personal PC but on a business computer without admin rights, You can’t disable the start menu web search. So it searches the web anytime you type anything in and makes it extremely difficult to find your files… Everything requires a workaround. Turning off copilot, turning off context menu, turning off web search, turning off user account control which is not possible on business PC but on personal PC it is, still really frustrating though. Turning off copilot, turning off Cortana, getting rid of the search box on your taskbar.
Like, I don’t know why any serious company would use Windows with this in mind
Inertia. The same reason companies are still running and maintaining COBOL programs. Not to mention it’s familiar to most of their users. Those of us that use Linux at home are a distinct minority.
Another rather big reason. Is that it’s backed by a company. There’s someone specific to go to if things go south. There are equivalents in the Linux world. Like red hat Enterprise linux. But then you lose a lot of the savings something like Linux offers. Granted you lose a lot of the hassle of anti-futures as well. That might start becoming a motivating issue soon enough.
On the whole people often in charge of Financial and procurement tend not to be very technically oriented. And want to go with the safest of the safest options in their perception whether or not it’s a good option.
And finally, in the business space there hasn’t been many companies selling and pushing systems pre-equipped with Linux for businesses to buy often. It’s getting better now. But it’s something you would only expect to see generally on the server side. Office wise its often just Dell HP or Lenovo business Towers all running Windows. But with companies like system 76, tuxedo, and framework offering for home users. You might start seeing more in business as well.