[damien c]

Originally Posted by Jaymoss

You think the costs I refer to is software? implementation of the software is another matter . Organisation administration back handers back scratching the whole thing will cost EU governments millions if not more because once anything happens in government or any government run bureaucracy costs are inflated to a massive degree

Oh that side will cost money, but when they are not paying the cost's of Operating Systems, Office, Dedicated Support teams etc etc it will save them millions overall.

I know many won't have paid for Windows 11, but if you paid for say Windows XP back in the day, then Windows ME if you got it, then the £200 Windows Vista Ultimate (I am a fool yes), then the I think it was £120 Windows 7 and so on, even the average user will save money in the long run switching to Linux.

I am in Skegness at the moment and using my laptop and this just over 1 week I have been here, has shown me that I will when I get back home, be able to wipe both pc's that I use and put Linux on both, because the video editing can be done on my Laptop to make use of the Sony Vegas I recently purchased, I can play games on it that cannot be played on Linux and as much as it will be annoying at first, I am looking forward to switching away from this bloated (even when de-bloated) OS.

So whilst they won't feel it, I will be another person not buying future Windows versions, and again whilst they won't feel just me stopping, if millions of us stop buying and switch from Windows to Linux, from Office to Open Office or Libre Office, from One Drive to Nextcloud or alternative, they will start to feel it.