I switched to Linux 15 years ago and I work in the legal industry as a computer guy, so I’ve been trying. The main obstacle in my experience has been liability insurance; if an entity like a small law firm uses Linux instead of Windows, their liability insurance rates increase; with Linux and other FOSS software, there is no deep-pocketed corporation to sue if a technical failure costs you money. Recent changes to Swiss law might help convince insurance companies that Linux is genuinely better enough that this will change, but insurance companies are the heart of all that is corporate and conservative, and famously hard to sway without mountains of evidence gathered on their terms by their people. Microsoft products are defective by design because institutions that only care about the bottom line do not want their users empowered.
I switched to Linux 15 years ago and I work in the legal industry as a computer guy, so I’ve been trying. The main obstacle in my experience has been liability insurance; if an entity like a small law firm uses Linux instead of Windows, their liability insurance rates increase; with Linux and other FOSS software, there is no deep-pocketed corporation to sue if a technical failure costs you money. Recent changes to Swiss law might help convince insurance companies that Linux is genuinely better enough that this will change, but insurance companies are the heart of all that is corporate and conservative, and famously hard to sway without mountains of evidence gathered on their terms by their people. Microsoft products are defective by design because institutions that only care about the bottom line do not want their users empowered.