Are you running such a business? I do not care. And I know pretty well how businesses work, whether they are small startups with 5 people and 8 PCs/laptops, or medium scale with 30-50 people, or large scale.

No but I do IT for numerous businesses in this position. I could make the case to switch to linux but if I followed your advice it would just make everything even more complicated, since you suggest to keep running windows but RDP into it.

IT support starts to become complicated when people cannot work on their Windows machines for 5 hours, and companies need to meet their deadlines.

That’s usually due to bad administration. It is very much possible to control when and what updates get installed in a properly configured AD environment. Not to mention these are really non-issues if you have proper snapshotting/backups set up. If a desktop got locked into a five hour update you should be able to easily restore it to it’s previous saved state. Or better yet have run those updates in a test environment first so you know what to expect when you roll them out to the rest of the workstations.

Running windows shit through RDP isn’t migrating to linux, it’s adding linux to a microsoft ecosystem, which just adds another layer of complexity to the system. Small to medium sized businesses have no reason to do this when it will just add more costs to their IT support. Not to mention the people they will need to hire to do this kind of work are going to want a hell of a lot more than they’re willing to pay.

It also becomes complicated when people run into dependency hell, and this or that DLL file is missing or crashes. Windows is hell for most people, they are just using it since childhood and accept it like abusive relationship, and because there exist people that like helping sustain this cultural hell.

I’ve never had any of those issues in a properly maintained environment. I see this happening mostly with end users who install a bunch of crap antivirus that functions more like malware.

Don’t get me wrong, I hate supporting windows environments, but sometimes there’s no better option. You keep saying ‘windows makes it more complicated’ but your suggestion is to make it even more complicated. This does not make sense.

P.S. I forgot to tell I migrated my college from Windows to Linux, probably more than whatever you have done.

Schools/universities are an entirely different story. It is much easier to migrate them to a linux/foss alternative because a lot of their software is written internally. Not to mention education platforms are more open to creating native linux applications as there are much fewer universities in the world than small/medium sized businesses. It’s much easier to teach someone how to use linux when they’re in a place where they are learning new skills, rather than when you’re dealing with people who have been using windows their whole professional lives and are just there for a paycheck. I wholly support the push towards more linux native development for businesses, but when it comes down to it that is just not feasible in most situations (for now). Also schools are more interested in cutting costs and have the resources to do so, which is why linux makes sense for them. Many businesses would rather just pay the money for licensing and support than have to deal with the headache of migrating to a new ecosystem.

Thanks for the downvote, I do not believe in the GrapheneOS/Windows stuff like a worshipper.

dude, what? you are so cringe.