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I don't understand how businesses that use windows for employee laptops are not throwing a fucking tantrum. I would be.
Ours is. Last I heard, our Client Management team is already looking for different ways to disable it and make triple sure it stays off.
(inb4 "Switch to Linux": several thousand users, specialised software and a technologically conservative company would already make that a non-starter)
I don't disagree that it would be tough, but they had to start from nothing when choosing Windows originally. It all had to be learned and built up at some point. It can again, and hopefully on an open platform that won't fuck them over in the future. (I know, there's no chance, but there should be.)
Everyone always complains that whatever they want isn't on Linux. Well, it wasn't on Windows at some point either. Make a user-base for it on Linux or make it yourself. Someone did it in the past. It can be done again.
Inertia is a hell of a thing to try and overcome. It's a big deal for most companies to change out an important piece of software, let alone an entire OS and everything that comes with it. It could happen one day, I just don't expect to see it.