Most of us still have to work on Windows in business environment. This is not going to change, even if I’d like it to. Troubleshooting M$ products is probably at least 30% of my job at this point…
Microsoft costs big money in the enterprise space.
I know of at least a few businesses looking into Linux to cut costs. They already have most of their devs on Linux and have been for years slowly showing it can work to the business.
My company doesn’t even let the Linux software devs use Linux workstations because they don’t integrate well with Windows AD/DC. I live in a relatively small city where everyone still depends on Windows and all the other big player companies (like vmware). My company has recently started pushing the few open source solutions that we do have out and replacing them with Microsoft garbage, even though it raises costs, gives us in the IT more headache and is ultimately more hostile to privacy. I’m deeply disappointed, especially because I’ve been trying to push for solutions that aren’t MS trash. However, I have no power, so I have to do as I’m told.
You’re literally one of the people working a job that heavily involves Windows, how do you pretend you’re not one of the people that decides whether this changes? The cult of denialism is mind boggling. If you don’t want to change the fact that you work at a Windows-supporting job, that sounds like why you are at a Windows-supporting job, not that it’s impossible to change
Are you seriously suggesting people should stay at employers who force them to share their paycheck with Bill Gates to be inundated with malware instead of switching to Linux?
And are you seriously implying that applies even for a person who is spending 30% of their work time dealing with the malware specifically?
Basically, yeah. I don’t think I can go anywhere that doesn’t use Windows.
I use Siemens NX, and they stopped supporting Linux after NX 12 back in 2018. There’s no substitution for that. So, I’d need to have a VM, not Wine. Which would just be Windows with extra steps.
Most of us still have to work on Windows in business environment. This is not going to change, even if I’d like it to. Troubleshooting M$ products is probably at least 30% of my job at this point…
I think it can change faster than you think.
Microsoft costs big money in the enterprise space.
I know of at least a few businesses looking into Linux to cut costs. They already have most of their devs on Linux and have been for years slowly showing it can work to the business.
My company doesn’t even let the Linux software devs use Linux workstations because they don’t integrate well with Windows AD/DC. I live in a relatively small city where everyone still depends on Windows and all the other big player companies (like vmware). My company has recently started pushing the few open source solutions that we do have out and replacing them with Microsoft garbage, even though it raises costs, gives us in the IT more headache and is ultimately more hostile to privacy. I’m deeply disappointed, especially because I’ve been trying to push for solutions that aren’t MS trash. However, I have no power, so I have to do as I’m told.
You’re literally one of the people working a job that heavily involves Windows, how do you pretend you’re not one of the people that decides whether this changes? The cult of denialism is mind boggling. If you don’t want to change the fact that you work at a Windows-supporting job, that sounds like why you are at a Windows-supporting job, not that it’s impossible to change
Are you seriously suggesting they change their job because of the os in their work computer?
God damn…
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Are you seriously suggesting people should stay at employers who force them to share their paycheck with Bill Gates to be inundated with malware instead of switching to Linux?
And are you seriously implying that applies even for a person who is spending 30% of their work time dealing with the malware specifically?
Basically, yeah. I don’t think I can go anywhere that doesn’t use Windows.
I use Siemens NX, and they stopped supporting Linux after NX 12 back in 2018. There’s no substitution for that. So, I’d need to have a VM, not Wine. Which would just be Windows with extra steps.
Because we’re not the decision makers…? What? Are you for real?