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      *at first

      Its only cheap because its normalized in that domain. As more work is done to iron out bugs and get people in the office space the feature they need on Linux the more experience IT folks will get support.

      Its an investment as always. There is no such thing as a free lunch

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        Society favours the short term and it will be a long time before Linux sys admins are cheaper than Windows sys admins

        Or even asking random kid out of high school how to do x

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          You have too look at it at scale too, and most places should either be adopting some platform that already does or be planning on scaling some special service they do.

          Every Podunk municple probally should have to have a AD expert, a security expert, a hardware/software lifecycle management person, etc etc

          That’s how o365 can be cheaper total cost of ownership then an army of siloed sys admins, even if the software is at no cost to them.

          Its an investment in total operations of the organizations of the state, from the current state of 1990s tech most operate off of to a modern IT infrastructure.