Not just clickbait, the title is maliciously wrong.
The article is about Apple holding developers conferences with cops with the purpose of developing apps tailored to them, there's nothing about users privacy.
A business trying to enter a new market, what a weird concept eh?
I didn't either, not even once in years of playing on Steam.
Many years ago at work, when PCs started to spread, I taught a 60 years old lady how to use one. She never saw a PC before yet she learned pretty well, and I saw much younger people not learning.
Being willing to learn doesn't depend on age, it's a mindset, either you have it or you don't, and if you do have it, it will last your entire life.
OpenSuse is essentially free marketing for SUSE, nobody would know them otherwise
I've been working for big enterprises for many years, SUSE is used in enterprise environment to run SAP systems because it's recommended by SAP, OpenSuse has nothing to do with that.
LMDE (Mint Cinnamon)
True, it's the desktop manager that can make a difference but you can install any DE on any distro.
What are corporate users using?
Windows on PCs, Linux is used mostly only on servers (RedHat/SuSe), hardware brands are usually HP, Dell and Lenovo.
I think that is my standard
Why? Do you expect companies to ask you to use your own PC for work instead of providing the tools you need? Be wary of those who do, using whatever personal PC for company work can lead to data breaches and that's a very serious problem.
World of Warcraft has its own anticheat that works on Linux no problem, if Blizzard can do it why Riot can't? It's not that WoW has more players than LOL so it could be justified, it's actually the opposite.
You can argue that copyright law should be revised.
It already has been, there is a ruling that allows an exemption to copyright law for the specific use of preservation by libraries and museums.
Maybe they could do more about it but what's already there is way way better than nothing.
It's not only the game industry unfortunately, it's every industry everywhere.
It's public trading - and all the financial speculations around it - that ruins companies, forcing them to earn more and spend less year after year, and when they have nothing else left to cut, they start cutting the workforce, with all the bad repercussions Swen described, like loss of institutional knowledge for example.
It's a financial model that's totally unsustainable, noone can grow indefinitely, they should change the way companies are valued, not looking at quarterly profits but a number of other parameters like respect for the environment for example, security, financial stability, things like that.
It won't happen tho so the only option today to be a good company is avoiding public trading, not many entrepreneurs are smart enough, or unselfish enough, to do it.
she didn’t really want to switch to Win 11
On which computer? Her own?
Does not the company provide a PC with the tools needed? If yes, she has no right to decide what goes on it, the company does and she should respect that, doing what you want on a company PC can get you in serious trouble, way more serious than finding out you're using a pirated version of Office.
If the company expects her to use her own PC, they should at least provide the needed software licenses, Office365 can be used on the web, no need to install anything and it can be used on Linux no problem.
BUT the serious problem remains of having company data on her own PC, the best thing to do in such a case would be creating a VM, encrypting the file system and keeping all company data contained inside the VM.
Tho in such a case I would change company, no serious company today would expect employees to keep company data freely on whatever personal PC, that could lead to data breaches, I would never want to be involved in case like that, tho I live in EU, we have very strict laws about data integrity and privacy, dunno about other countries.
If they ever made such a law they should go after Star Citizen first, they sell ingame ships for thousands of dollars ... and yes, people buy them ...
No wonder they buy a 90$ mount ...