Microsoft hate is justified.
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Gumus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I know there’s a lot of hate for Microsoft on Lemmy, but WSL is one of the best parts of Windows. It’s really powerful and well integrated to Windows. Since I still can’t leave for pure Linux install, I’m glad for WSL.
Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee 1 day ago
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
WSL made windows tolerable in the time I had to use a windows machine for work.
macOS is still the better choice for corp approved work, integrates decently with IT systems and is a “real” unix system underneath.
Linux on a corporate desktop is mostly about how well you know the IT guys and do they trust you. And of course the software stack.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
IT just said no for WSL “ask your manager”
My manager barely knows how to read his email and doesn’t understand why I want 3rd screeneleitl@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Just buy a single 45" curved one then.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
He doesn’t like that my cubicle computer would not be all the others
cmhe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Linux on a corporate desktop is mostly about how well you know the IT guys and do they trust you. And of course the software stack.
I would say it depends more on the commitment of the IT admins to support and manage a fleet of Linux workstations. There are Linux “Active Directory” servers, configuration provisioning tools, ways to centrally and automatically rollout updates, etc. It really depends on if the IT guys invest the same amount of effort to support them or not.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
2000 people, 3k+ devices and one dude wants a Linux laptop.
Not happening 😀
But it did work in a smaller company of around 30 people, mostly because the IT guy was a Linux user too
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
Easy fix, install proxmox and run corpo-os in that as well as a proper desktop os. Just need to max out the ram on the shitbox thet give you and now you can switch almost seemlessly
cmhe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well I worked for a while at a large international corporation that maintained (and AFAIK is still continuing) a managed Linux system, which worked well enough. And there where a lot more people, especially the people that were the most productive, interested in it.
Sure that might have just been a nice island inside the larger company, but the people there were the internal consultants, which often had to pull other projects out of the gutter.
If you over your specialists ways to use the tools they need, you will improve the whole company.
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
WSL is EEE
i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 1 day ago
The only Windows PC I use is my work computer.
GPO blocked WSL.
I can’t even escape to a command line with the right flavour of slashes between directories. For eight hours a day, all hope is lost.
ADTJ@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Only solution is to write your own
Perish@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Funny that the Linux is best part of Windows lmao
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Doubly ironic since Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux.