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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 79 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Not to repeat myself from when I saw this posted last, but:

Seeing thinkpads running Windows feels just wrong.

[–] Fox@pawb.social 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They do tend to start out that way, until they come off-lease and have Arch installed on them by a Blåhaj-clutching, thigh-high-wearing FOSS enjoyer

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

You use a graphical environment? Sissy.

[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

Hey, there's something in between. I just got myself a T490 and am dual-booting Mint and Windows.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Like 90% of professional laptops in America are this exact set up? I have one sitting on my table right now. You Linux people seem to think there are a lot more of you than there are.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 12 points 10 months ago

Like 90% of professional laptops in America are this exact set up

It's true. There's a lot of wickedness in this world.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Were aware we're the minority. But still to see it confirmed in real life 😅

[–] bignate31@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I love my ThinkPad, but that's mostly because of the TrackPoint

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Good thing they all use the same laptop! I sense a high level of truth here /s

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting that this person may not actually be admitting to several crimes openly on twitter

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I have my doubts

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

They obviously all work at the same company, or even department, you conspiranoic!

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

By her own math, this would be slightly more than one week’s worth of stolen laptops. So…

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago (5 children)

As if finance guys would have ThinkPads and not macs

[–] lqdrchrd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Work in finance, have a thinkpad

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 10 months ago

IT doesn't count.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why would they have macs? Everyone I know in finance has a windows desktop and or laptop.

[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Everyone I know in literally every company has a Windows PC. I've had people tell me that everyone at their office uses a Mac or Linux and I'm just bamboozled. I guess I do work for a large law firm and most law firms, financial companies and most software companies that we work with are windows shops.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I know a few in software that are Mac and that makes sense in that either will do and one is generally more sought after. Generally I expect Mac in creative spaces not administrative.

I have never seen linux outside of IT departments and personal machines.

[–] twice_twotimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

FWIW, academia is utterly dominated by Macs. In the last 10 years I have known exactly one colleague to choose to use a PC, and her open reason for doing that is that she thinks it’s fun to be contrarian. A lot of (psychology) labs will have one dusty PC stashed away in a corner somewhere running that one weird piece of Windows-only proprietary software for the eye-tracker or a super niche stats program or something, but then you make IT come in to keep it alive because the idea of having to put any effort into using it or replacing it is horrible.

I was a little curious whether losing the ability to BootCamp (the new M chips can’t, and I personally used dual booting all the time for video games) would change anything, but my university’s response was to start paying for Parallels for anyone who wants it.

I really didn’t understand why people still acted like anybody at all uses Windows until my husband moved from academia to industry a few years ago and we were totally floored by the PC-culture (heh) he found himself in (though he’s personally pretty anti-Mac and not complaining). Now the only Mac he sees is mine and the only PC I see is his. It’s wild.

[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Yea I could see that. I was challenged in a few other places on Lemmy because my company didn't use Linux and supposedly it was more common than Windows which blew my mind. Outside of school though I don't see professionals using Macs unless maybe it's a personal device or some software devs/designers. I go to my fair share of conferences and events which are almost always Dell, Lenovo or HP machines running Windows.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Everywhere I've worked used windows too, but I've never worked in tech which may be the reason.

My current spot uses win10 machines literally just for shipstation and zebra label printers, we could switch if the printers work on linux and if shitstation doesn't "need" edge. And we should, because windows has been giving us problems.

My last job I was delivering pizza, left during the pandemic, the one working POS (dual meaning) computer still ran XP lmao.

[–] Xuderis@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It depends on the company.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

And their rank in the company.

[–] Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Macs are useless for Finance

[–] idefix@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

In my past 20 years in investment banks, i saw only one a guy with a Mac. He was in communication. Everybody got a Thinkpad X, T or X1 Carbon for the execs.

[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The only person I know working in finance couldn't even afford their own ThinkPad. In fact, they are a bit malnourished as they can't even afford food some of the time. But they do live in this big, mostly empty house, which I could never afford in my entire lifetime, and towards mortgage for which most of their money goes. Something-something appreciating assets yada-yada

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I wonder what kind of shenanigans you could get up to with a rack of 30+ thinkpads linked as a cluster computer...

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

"...It runs Doom!!"

[–] jodanlime@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

I have some SFF computers I plan on doing this to when the weather turns to crap.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Excel stops crashing

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's one hell of a felony

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

One fell of a helony

[–] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

itsajoke.jpg

[–] don@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

“My company got a load of laptops in, wonder kind of cool sm post I can make with ‘em before I deploy ‘em…

I got it!”