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Why are right wingers still on windows?
Because they hate migration.
Badum tss…
They hate GNOME DE, because your whole environment can be Dark More with one click
I’ve had homelab migrations bigger than this. Sorry, but moving 5 workstations to Linux is hardly newsworthy.
As much as you’re right, this is at least something, don’t dismiss it so lightly.
It’s good, it helps others realize Linux can be a viable alternative. Many people don’t realize alternate OSs are even a thing.
Others that are casually browsing “itsfoss”? I think it’s a case of preaching to the choir…
No I mean he’s now going to tell people a guy added a new system and I stopped paying for Microsoft licenses, and adoption grows as people learn from word of mouth. I get it is slow, but its positive still
Most TMS systems are under $100/month for 5 trucks. While I appreciate them going full F(l)OSS, this was likely because the company owner isn’t very good at computers and was trying to run his business on WhatsApp instead of one of the hundreds of professional options.
Although from a purely software perspective this might be a good thing, from a logistics perspective would this scale to temp control, shock detection, cross-border usage, is it secure, is it prone to fraud, is it safe to use while driving, does it scale to 10, 100, 1000 trucks…?
It might be a business owner that doesn’t want to scale. I know every MBA type wants to view things from growth, scalability, regional expansion etc, but sometimes you have an owner that found a good gig and wants to keep it simple.
Most of the T&L market is spot freight though. A carrier with 5 trucks isn’t going to win much contracted and so he’s essentially running 5 freelancers on day-to-day loads, the only way to keep that profitable is to minimize deadhead miles which you need a TMS for.
I’m not saying he needs to scale to infinity but it sounds like the issue is that he’s spending hours or even days of his time to save 100 bucks.
Again I think you are looking at it from a corporate lens. I see tons of people who spend time to save a buck, because they see every dollar as a dollar they didnt have. And they make a living at small business and don’t want the headache of growing to medium sized.
This is not isolated, but as an example our cans and bottles have a recycle refund. I have seen a woman in a Lexus pull up to my driveway and search through my recycling and grab the bottles and cans I didn’t have time to return. Her back seat was full of bags of stuff she’ll bring to the depot and get cash. Minus gas and time, it doesn’t seem worth it to me, especially if you can afford Lexus full size sedans, but for her its going to be ~$40 she didn’t have yesterday.
I’ve done an audit at a medium sized factory and the owner keeps it very old school, and under 50 employees (to avoid additional regulations that go with that in his province). He is aware that he could invest in technology and expand, become more efficient, and be a big competitor for contracts, but they have made a name and deliver a good product and so work smaller value but steady. They are in the same market as similar places that do 4x the volume/$ales
Considering OSS is Open Source by nature, all of those questions could conceivably be answerable and problems mitigated.
I googled it. Fleetbase is open source and costs $29/month and is $5/month per truck and driver. So this would’ve cost the guy in the OP $89/month - roughly what I said in my original comment
