... can you stretch that?
Obviously, we all see the possibilities in a small set up. We keep hardware longer or play the better games.
Now consider this:
You are running a company with 20 computer desks. That's 20 employees with each a desk and a computer. You have them connected using WiFi or old school with Ethernet cables.
Every few years MS Windows gets slow and you buy new hardware for about each desk. To be really honest, is that as important to the company culture as the Bonus Mile Chat in a night out, but for all others it is a cost factor that gets even worse if you have to render marketing videos or got into large spreadsheet operations.
And here we go.
If this company dares to switch fully to Linux with no dual boot computers, which means finding exchange software for all applications used they enter a new space. The trouble is that it is not plug and pray anymore, which means if you can't do it by drop down menues, with the exception of Visual Basic in MS Excel, it is not gonna happen no matter how hard you pray on bleeding knees, but we tweak it in just a matter of time in a forgetting time space-continuum.
This is Linux and Open Source Software, which is not free. That means, if you miserable fucks would donate me a million I next moment hit the Donate button for Linux Mint, Ollama (if there is one) and mpich (if there is one) to share substantial amounts of that pile. Sharing is caring after all.
So, we have installed several Linux versions all based on Ubuntu over all 20 computers. They all come with standard Office packages. There is no change in all Cloud Services except we switch to Firefox having to get used to a different browser.
Every time one user triggers a heavy CPU resources intensive operation like Blender rendering or Spreadsheet Pivot Table analysis that computer distributes resources to other computers without slowing them down. It uses available resources. The worst that can happen is that you find yourself on a Saturday evening sprinting from desk to desk to turn on Computers without even logging in.
The next steps are parallel to the Beowulf Cluster, because you just understood distributed work sharing.
You will find yourself looking for a Python guy that using DeepSeeks and his coding skills helps you to connect the Spreadsheet Open Office applications on each Computer exchanging spreadsheet content on demand.
How many spreadsheets do you have in your 20 computers that need data from other computer's spreadsheets? So, do you usb that or email...
Well, beside pushing text files over the LAN by the infamous M drive, on which some idiot will have saved or back uped also porn at some point, the Open Office spreadsheets can be just like MS Excel connected using code and trigger data exchange by a mouse click.
For all companies that are willing to sacrifice the easy, the Linux world has great features that can compete with what international mega corporations do spend millions on having no solutions for the SME.
That one MS computer or Apple around won't feel lonesome. Computers have no feelings.
I have.
From there you might consider creating a RAID over the network. RAID means that several physical hard discs are per software turned into one and that can happen over a network. Using passwords for folders, you still have data security based on company title and position.
As a matter of fact you can be so freaky to use SD drives, USB harddrives and even a NAS creating a huge hard drive instead of knowing that your front-desk lady PA has 95% free space and you just cracked 1T with no Amazon Prime account on again a Saturday.
Ask your best buddy large AI:
How
can I create a RAID over several computer's drives in a LAN, please?
Give me instructions on each possible RAID. They are a Beowulf Cluster
and all running at the same time.
If you doubt me.
From here your document management starts becoming itchy, promised. Every meeting creates meeting minutes and those are emailed or placed at the infamous M: drive with no password to eventually have the Hacker chat about your meetings with the hot girl in the coffee break.
Your email chains are saved as .doc or .pdf with some .txt files sprinkled inbetween on your computer and at some point you find an email that the very wrong .doc found itself on the M: drive, which is from where the .txt files are.
You can hire MS Sharepoint Consultants that will joke into your face that they work based on the 5-3-2 system or do it yourself. 5 days pay, 3 days there, two days work, and you have to suck it up or I did it and need a shower to finally sleep again.
Instead of taking big grinnings, you actually start creating a clear order and structure in your network drives especially if your created individual RAIDS or a network wide major one.
And there is more.
You can install a VNC client on each computer and share your desktop with even remote working computers from here.
You can set up an IRC server on one computer and IRC clients on each. That means Internet Relay Chat and is as old as the internet which is older then the World Wide Web. It is chat software that can have bots added.
So, your front-desk lady opens the private chat room with you and enters who asks for you having asked your bot about your calendar. The message pops up in your menue bar as scrolling text or if you fancy in the exact Star Wars font over the entire screen. I am serious.
It also means that teams spreading out over several rooms can discuss matters without a meeting room being more productive by having their full computer set up at their hands with screens and external mouse.
You CEO and CFO could have a coffee in the meeting room watching all screens and the chat, actually.
You'll be different than the Microsoft - Dell guys. You know that one..:
She sais:
That car there is nicer than yours.
He sais:
He also has a hotter girl.
Vs
She sais:
That car there is nicer than yours.
He sais:
But his girl ain that hot.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Still, and you can't have it all, ever, after all.
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