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[–] 26 points 9 months ago (14 children)

All together now: "YOU SHOULD TRY LINUX!"

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  • [–] 40 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    ‘Work laptop’. Unless you’re self employed or work with a very generous IT manager, you get what you’re given.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    You can always make your case. IT doesn't want an additional headache of dealing with another infrastructure, but a lot of the time they will be OK if you will convince them that you will deal with your weird shit on your own.
    Sure, quite often there are weird security problems, sure, sometimes there is no way to use necessary software on Linux, but just as often there isn't, and you just need to convince them that you know what you're doing.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Folks choose to forgo support to use Linux where I work.

    I don't know how many of them are actually competent to support themselves. I only hear from the ones who are both incompetent and also manage to find out that I am (was?) a Linux admin.

    Years ago my boss told me a researcher was using Linux and had a couple questions for me. That email thread could have been edited and turned into a Linux Administration for Dummies book. It was months and months. Every answered question led to three or four more questions.

    That boss retired, and the new boss is a 100% Microsoft guy, so at least I won't have to support clueless Linux users anymore.

    From time to time I hear about someone getting a Linux server set up. When I ask, they say the vendor is managing updates on the server. When I check I find that the server hasn't had any updates or reboots since it was installed.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Nice.

    At my place, most problems happened with Windows. Although those systems were air-gapped, problems occurred with the local-network updates setup by the IT team.

    Most Linux systems were either used only for internet or treated as "devices", so minimal complaints there.

    The software developers' Linux systems were expected to be handled by themselves, so any IT support would just be a favour.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    If enough people at a job complain about Windows, they’ll deploy Linux. Or at least Mac. IT people for Linux can usually manage several times the machines IT people for Windows can.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    No, they won't. Maybe in small shops with only people who are advanced users and don't need/develop software for Windows. The rest is fantasy. 

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Hell the US military is using Ubuntu desktop, you can request it over windows, windows is the default though. Imagine the savings in electricity and licensing when getting rid or reducing windows usage.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    You don’t think anyone would deploy Linux if 100% of employees wanted it over Windows? It only took about 10% (based on how many people I saw using it) at LinkedIn before they started offering it. Admittedly, that’s a tech company, but it’s also owned by Microsoft, and they still let us use Linux. And that was in ~2018, when Windows wasn’t that bad.

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  • I know from experience. Moving to Mac is more likely, but that comes with higher costs. And most non-tech people are deep in the M$ Office/365 and even Windows tends to be too complicated for them. Many of them can't even follow two picture instructions, let alone move to another OS.

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