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jolmg on April 4, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and Libre...

> No one in the past 20 years should be walking to every desk in 1,000 desk building installing software.

Maybe even 50 years, if one considers that they could've automated the installations through telnet.

schmichael on April 4, 2024 [–]

I remember walking to every computer in primary schools to do operations in the 90s, so I figured might as well play it safe with “20 years.” :)

There’s definitely been solutions to this problem since the dawn of computing, albeit with uneven availability.

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