@afewbugs yeah, I like to use Linux. But I am working...

@afewbugs yeah, I like to use Linux. But I am working in an enterprise environment, when my company says all the computers have to have windows installed then "just use Linux" is not gonna magically make it appear on my device.

Like 22 May at 6:53 | Wall-to-wall | Open on dice.camp

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tessarakt

@kyonshi @afewbugs yeah, can be very annoying. I have a developer "client" with my own Linux installation, but they tend to make some things very hard ... Like people using CIFS shares. Even Sharepoint would be easier.

22 May at 7:55 | Open on mastodon.social

IDe

@tessarakt @kyonshi @afewbugs
Isn't CIFS super easy with cifs-utils?

22 May at 11:20 | Open on masto.ai

Thanasis Kinias

@kyonshi
Yeah, my university IT actively makes things difficult for Linux users (beyond ‘we do not support’)—like banning plugging in to Ethernet, blocking printing...
@afewbugs

22 May at 9:10 | Open on historians.social

Thanasis Kinias

@kyonshi
I deal with the frustrations because I have 20+ yr using Linux on the desktop and changing would be very painful now, but there are so many roadblocks in front of any prospective new user...
@afewbugs

22 May at 9:12 | Open on historians.social

Delphi

@tkinias @kyonshi @afewbugs Things have changed so much. At the uni I'm just leaving they stopped everyone installing everything. There's a faffy process of applying for anything that they haven't approved. The IT team only know what they've been told.
They think they're making everything secure then use Google and lots of insecure practices. The knowledge is suprisingly poor. They constantly change everything owing to terrible decisions.

22 May at 9:53 | Open on mastodon.scot

Autoerotic Defenestration

@kyonshi @afewbugs right?! my last company was Windows-based, but us devs could choose, so we had lotsa Macs and 1-2 Linuxes.

But the admins were only responsible for the Windows machines, which means with anything else, you were on your own.

So we were free to choose, but it did come at a price.

22 May at 9:14 | Open on mastodon.cloud

Harald

@danielaKay at a previous job, internal IT rejected my requests for support because I didn't run Windows. When I switched to Windows, they rejected my support requests as too unusual and eventually gave me admin access so I would stop annoying them (which was wholly inappropriate for my issues with their infrastructure but that way it was my fault again) @kyonshi @afewbugs

22 May at 10:32 | Open on hachyderm.io

Threadbane

@kyonshi @afewbugs
Why do corporate environments continue to use Gatesware? The dangers of ransomware and security problems of all kinds are continuous. Biting the bullet and paying the local computer repair shop guy to install Linux on all the machines - or just buy all new hardware with Linux pre-installed seems like an inexpensive way to avoid extremely expensive problems. Running Micro$haft at this point seems penny wise and pound foolish at the corporate level.

22 May at 11:39 | Open on newsie.social