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?

  • Frank Exchange of Views@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Linux admin grey(ish) beard here, work provides a MacBook and I just use it as a web browser and terminal.

    Internal chat, mail, etc are all browser based, Google Docs is the office suite of choice for anyone I have to work with.

    I get a decent terminal (iterm2), together with ZSH, tmux and Python is all I really need. We do have a bunch of GNU core utils installed as well, although coming from a UNIX background, I don’t mind the BSD versions that ship on MacOS either.

    Would I prefer Linux? Yes, I would. But at the same time, the M4 performance is awesome, the touchpad is glorious and I don’t have to foot the bill, so I’m not complaining!

    • titanicx@lemmy.zip
      21·
      19 hours ago

      Didn’t macos go Linux base a few years ago? I thought they moved away from bsd. Admittedly it’s been a good few years since I’ve had to touch a Mac os.

    • Frank Exchange of Views@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      One addition, in the past I’ve been forced to use Windows at previous jobs, but once we got WSL, that wasn’t too much of a pain either.

      And once upon a time I worked at HP and we were allowed to run whatever we wanted on our workstations, but that was before laptops were commonplace for my kind of work.