A few weeks ago,
dot.kde.org featured a great why-should-this-be-amazing story about Linux being used as the
day-to-day desktop operating system for city employees in Largo, Florida. Roblimo got a chance to see
the system in action to find out how ordinary office workers are proving that the old "Linux is tough to use" shibboleth is nothing but FUD, and how a medium-sized city is saving buckets of money by minimizing the tax dollars spent on licenses and hardware. Oh, and they've also pre-empted the kind of costs (in
hassle and
money) that can face any organization that
Microsoft suspects may have some licenses out of order. This is the kind of thing every elected official should have politely waved in his or her face by concerned taxpayers. The Largo system uses KDE on Red Hat, but since both KDE and Gnome are paying much
attention to user interface, similar systems could easily be running on various combinations of hardware / distribution / desktop system.