The Tweakers Pricewatch Is a wonderful tool in Dutch of the local market. It makes it easy to evaluate the Dutch market for almost any kind of electronic device, like the WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD.
Clicking on the first product link on that page lists all the Dutch shops selling the SSD with prices, including shipping. Scroll down, and at the bottom of the list of all the shops is a stock market style historical graph of both the lowest and the average price of the part, in euros .
Bingo. The true impediment is psychological factors.
I've been thru the cycle several times. You show client the alternative. They say they could NEVER use it. The big red button isn't there. They use visual memory to do things, without understanding anything. Enter data in field x, find the big red button, press it. Job well done. Even software updates, where they change the colour of the button, or move it from the right to the middle, or change the text from "ok" to "update" will confuse most
After you train them on the new software, they LOVE it. Then a few years later some update comes in, the colour scheme is tweaked, the buttons and text change a little bit and they go ballistic! OMG I can't do my job, the big red button has moved (2 cm to the left). Any change to the software triggers massive FEAR and causes Joe to suddenly look and feel incompetent. Que another training session. After learning that, now they LOVE the software again. If you stick around long enough, some new system comes along to replace the system they originally HATED, then LOVED once they knew how to use it, and you show that to them and the cycle starts again: I could NEVER use that.
True. So true! Oh how much I hate that damn ribbon! Thank goodness I have other options.
Okay, take a windows computer loaded with sensitive information that must be retained, and install Linux on it without losing anything. Takes some time and effort for one, and they'll have thousands. It's doable, but it won't be cheap or fast.
Isn't everything managed on servers for a long time already, even with 'personal folders', and ACL's are a thing too. Again, in 2026, any motivated organization should be able to overcome whatever obstacles that might lay in their path, even given their previous investments in microsoft.
France says it plans to move some government computers from Windows to Linux as part of a broader push for digital sovereignty and reduced dependence on U.S. technology. TechCrunch reports:
In a statement, French minister David Amiel said (translated) that the effort was to "regain control of our digital destiny"
He forgot the word "partial"
If they want that control they need to at least divest from ALL use of Microsoft "solutions" and possibly also build their own Linux distribution.
In 2026, given the current state of Linux software and distributions, I don't see what is so hard about switching the vast majority of common office computers.
What exactly does Littlesnitch accomplish that pihole or piVPN does not accomplish? The latter are free, open-source code.
Isn't this what Wireshark is for? Or at least one of its many purposes?
Or a hostlist. Where's that hostlist person on the slashdots when you need them?
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