Comment by Zetaphor

1 day ago

Are you implying that need for support would go away?

If anything the demand would be artificially high at the start of a mass migration, and then presumably level out to something similar to what we see today with Windows.

This is basically RHEL's entire business model.

Not a thing any longer, for the most part. People know how to open a browser on any operating system these days. Go to the menu, run it. Get bored and click the X on the top bar. Source: nearby kids. A few times I've said... "this is Cinnamon, or KDE, or... Windows."

"Ok, whatever," (old man) is the response I get.

And, you don't have to move 100% of their workflow in a single day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730137