Switch to Linux, lol.
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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months agoHahahajahahajha
OK.
Show me tables in any open competitor to excel.
Show me OneNote/Sharepoint
Show me SCOM.
Show me file compatibility that doesn’t wack your files, so you can trust you’re seeing what the author intended.
Show me Publisher, any kind of CAD.
Which shell are you using?
I can go on for days why the “switch to Linux” mantra is simplistic and naive, at best.
Linux has its place, but I’m not dealing with supporting users with it as a desktop OS. I don’t even use it myself (other than to tinker), because I don’t have time to play fuck-fuck with borked files from one system to another. My “get work done” machines run Windows, especially because I work with other people, and I need to ensure any documents I send to them appear as intended.
There’s a reason Windows is the defacto standard, and it’s the standardized UI (and not by accident, if you read the MS research from the 80’s). Add to that support for systems management since the early 90’s, with SMS, Exchange/DC (a directory service) that all works natively with the OS since Win2k.
Linux as the base for a hypervisor? Fantastic. As a host for docker? Great! As a base OS for lightweight, dedicated-purpose devices (RPi, consumer routers, hell, commercial routers! IoT)? Perfect!
Sneptaur@pawb.social 8 months ago
bjorney@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
To be fair, your arguments basically boil down to “show me equivalent Linux support for proprietary Microsoft products”
You could make all the same arguments and conclude Macs are less suitable for doing work than windows, yet there are tons of professionals using MacBooks who get by just fine. If you don’t need to be fully ingrained in the Microsoft ecosystem you don’t NEED to be on windows.