I’m liking the recent posts about switching to Linux. Some of my home machines run Linux, and I ran it on my main laptop for years (currently on Win10, preparing to return to Linux again).
That’s all fine and dandy but at work I am forced to use Windows, Office, Teams, and all that. Not just because of corpo policies but also because of the apps we need to use.
Even if it weren’t for those applications, or those policies, or if Wine was a serious option, I would still need to work with hundreds of other people in a Windows world, live-sharing Excel and so on.
I’m guessing that most people here just accept it. We use what we want at home, and use what the bossman wants at work. Or we’re lucky to work in a shop that allows Linux. Right?
I’m a Linux sysadmin. I was issued a Windows laptop. But I have been allowed to add a second NVME drive to it that has Debian 12 installed. So Debian 12 has been my main working environment.
I also have a desktop in my cube running Windows.
I rarely boot my laptop to windows. But if I need to do something with modifying Windows smb shares or active directory I just remote into my Windows Desktop. I’m also running a ssh server on my windows desktop so about half of my windows active directory work is done via powershell over ssh.
Yes – And it sucks balls.
Some people in a different department of the company do work with Linux. And some get Macs.
IT intern, yeah I am kinda forced to use Windows. I am also in charge of reformatting computers and installing OSs, so technically I could just sneak a little ventoy drive in and dual boot if I was a little sneaky about it, but I’m specifically grinding work contacts and don’t wanna jeopardize that for any reason right now.
Software engineer. Last company that made me use Windows was one I left 3 years ago I think. Since then it’s been MacOS or LInux, and I love both. I actually prefer Linux at home and MacOS for work. Just add brew (obviously) and a tiling window manager and I’m done. With Linux at home I tinker more, I actually used to use Gentoo for gaming…
Yes. Its their network and their systems and they pay me to use their tools. Thats the only reason i touch windows.
My last job was with a startup and they let me pick my rig. I went native linux and they all thought i was looney. 3 months later i had converted 2 coworkers to use ubuntu.
Just mac. That used to be a flex.
sure am and it fucking sucks
just today I ran into a new issue - when you try to close an Excel document without saving, it asks if you want to merge your changes with the server.
I do not, I want to close without saving, so I choose no.
then it asks if I want to save the document.
I do not, I want to close without saving, so I choose don’t save
The document finally closes. I reopen the document, and guess what’s there? my unsaved changes. if I try to close the document, the cycle repeats.
Microsoft fucking removed the ability to close a document without saving
I tried this on Windows 10 on one computer and Windows 11 on another computer with the exact same behavior
Yeah, I only use that hot mess of an OS when I get paid to use it lmao
Yep, and I fucking hate every minute of it…
Yes, but maybe it’s not so bad. It creates a clear separation between work and play. Windows is for boring work and office stuff. Linux is the happy place at home.
My job involves maintaining Linux servers so there are no problems with Linux as my desktop.
Currently Arch Linux as the desktop OS.
Nope: My lathe runs Linux.
Mac at work. Yabai+sketchybar is no i3wm replacement, but it works ok.
My
.zshrcis basically the same as I use on my personal computers, and aside from a few coreutils differences it…kinda just works. I haveaptaliased tobrewso I can feel more at home.Stock terminal works fine—I use
xtermon Linux, so I’m used to relying ontmuxfor nice features anyway.Basically, I miss the window manager, but practically speaking that’s a about it. (I obviously have
xscreensaverinstalled!)I pretty much have to use Linux at work. I’m only still on windows for gaming but that will probably change soon.
If you have an AMD GPU and don’t care about playing games that require kernel-level access for anticheat (ew), then Linux might just work better for you than Windows, for most games.
Like, getting Minecraft installed and working with mods in CachyOS just required installing Prism Launcher from the CachyOS repos (1 easy step) then launching it. I didn’t even need to open a web browser to download an installer.
Heroic Launcher is amaze balls, too. It pulls all the free games I get on GOG, Epic, and Amazon (iirc?) into one library that looks and works like Steam’s (amazing) library. So slick. (I think it’s preinstalled in CachyOS, too.)
I have an older 1080ti or something like that which is still running just fine. And with the current prices I’m unlikely to change that.
I’ve used Linux Desktop both personal and at work since 2003, I guess I got lucky with where I worked, they always allowed it as long as I could do everything that needed to be done.
Then again, I was either the owner or CTO level for the last decade or so, and just made those decisions myself.
Now I’m trying to push my current company to switch completely to Linux, and it ain’t easy. Not because of Linux, that part is fine and whatever easy, but because Microsoft worked hard to ensure you can’t escape their fucking clutches.
Moving away from teams, for example, will be a tough one, because most of our customers and government have complety relented to Microsoft, and you MUST use teams to talk to them.
So then what? Use different messengers internally and externally? I’m still not sure how to get rid of that part, but for the rest, we are going off the microshit soon
You can use Teams on Linux through the web browser.
This is true, but it’s one of the ways MS weasels it’s way in. If you’re using teams with clients, then they likely have Outlook as their scheduling app, so you have to use it too, since it only works with itself. It’s a backdoor to get you into their trap and get more and more of your data tied up and expensive to migrate.
Huh, I’ve never encountered this obstacle. On the rare occasion I’ve had to use Outlook, I’ve just used OWA.
I’m sorry for the challenges you’re facing.
