Linux

Linux or Mac shop in the past 3 places.

Nope.

My university forces us to use Microsoft products and I hate it.

The only good thing is that most MS products are available through web browser nowadays, but they have random quirks that make me bash my head against the desk.

Yes, but maybe it's not so bad. It creates a clear separation between work and play. Windows is for boring work and office stuff. Linux is the happy place at home.

I'm a Linux sysadmin. I was issued a Windows laptop. But I have been allowed to add a second NVME drive to it that has Debian 12 installed. So Debian 12 has been my main working environment.

I also have a desktop in my cube running Windows.

I rarely boot my laptop to windows. But if I need to do something with modifying Windows smb shares or active directory I just remote into my Windows Desktop. I'm also running a ssh server on my windows desktop so about half of my windows active directory work is done via powershell over ssh.

Software engineer. Last company that made me use Windows was one I left 3 years ago I think. Since then it's been MacOS or LInux, and I love both. I actually prefer Linux at home and MacOS for work. Just add brew (obviously) and a tiling window manager and I'm done. With Linux at home I tinker more, I actually used to use Gentoo for gaming...

We're using exclusively MacOS at work, with the exception of one windows device which is pretty quarantined from the rest. I would not accept a job offer from a windows-only company. My mental health is more important to me

Windows Sysadmin. My job is to enjoy the eternal arms race against Cortana every update via GPO and registry hacks. We are running on malware, it's a joke.

And before you ask, I am a peon and "Have we considered Linux?" was an office meme years before I arrived.

We in engineering are allowed to use whatever the heck we want so long as IT agrees that it is useful and safe and costs less than other options.

So we run a bunch of open source stuff. But the biggest one is Python. We connect arduinos and rpies to run complex machines. Meanwhile CAD runs on windows unfortunately along with all the bullshit spreadsheet, word and PowerPoint.

Linux is awesome and I see Windows day's numbered. So long piece of shit obsolescence software! One day you will be no more.

Nope: My lathe runs Linux.

Yes -- And it sucks balls.

Some people in a different department of the company do work with Linux. And some get Macs.

sure am and it fucking sucks

just today I ran into a new issue - when you try to close an Excel document without saving, it asks if you want to merge your changes with the server.

I do not, I want to close without saving, so I choose no.

then it asks if I want to save the document.

I do not, I want to close without saving, so I choose don't save

The document finally closes. I reopen the document, and guess what's there? my unsaved changes. if I try to close the document, the cycle repeats.

Microsoft fucking removed the ability to close a document without saving

I tried this on Windows 10 on one computer and Windows 11 on another computer with the exact same behavior

We are an MSP for small business. We have been a strict linux server environment for 10+ years.

On the desktop side, we have a few clients running Linux mint desktops and laptops now. Mostly for 2nd line personel, or roles where only browsers are required. We run microsoft Edge Browser on those devices for Office 365 usage and because firefox based browsers are so hit and miss with business web apps these days. We have our RMM tool to manage configurations and run our own Rustdesk instance for remote support.

The main impediment for larger adoption we see is still 3rd party app support. Desktop Excel being the primary one. Online Excel and LibreOffice is still not quite there in terms of some features for intermediate users. Whatsapp desktop app for voice calls with clients are also a major one in our country. Its a windows store app, which I have not been able to find a way to get connected to wine.

What we need is a proton like project for business applications. Proton has likely already done half the work. Once Office and windows store apps installs work as smoothly as games under steam, adoption can start at a larger scale.

The question is which company is going to make that investment. Canonical is too close to Microsoft and wont want to upset that relationship. And Red Hat always seems to be stuck in their own world. Other teams with the insight to tackle such a project, are probably too small, or do not have the financial backing or incentive for it.

My job involves maintaining Linux servers so there are no problems with Linux as my desktop.

Currently Arch Linux as the desktop OS.

If I was forced to use windows at any job I would find another job.

Yes. Its their network and their systems and they pay me to use their tools. Thats the only reason i touch windows.

My last job was with a startup and they let me pick my rig. I went native linux and they all thought i was looney. 3 months later i had converted 2 coworkers to use ubuntu.

Yep, and I fucking hate every minute of it...

Mac at work. Yabai+sketchybar is no i3wm replacement, but it works ok.

My .zshrc is basically the same as I use on my personal computers, and aside from a few coreutils differences it...kinda just works. I have apt aliased to brew so I can feel more at home.

Stock terminal works fine---I use xterm on Linux, so I'm used to relying on tmux for nice features anyway.

Basically, I miss the window manager, but practically speaking that's a about it. (I obviously have xscreensaver installed!)

Yup. Use Windows at work mostly and Linux at home. My job isn't my life.

I use Mac at work :). Most of my group uses Mac with a few using windows. There have been some people who have tried using fedora but the support for some enterprise apps is just not there. But I do get to manage around 100 RHEL systems. So I still get plenty of linux time at work.

I'm the IT admin, so I can run whatever I want. As long as the work gets done, I could even run TempleOS on my machine. 😀

IT intern, yeah I am kinda forced to use Windows. I am also in charge of reformatting computers and installing OSs, so technically I could just sneak a little ventoy drive in and dual boot if I was a little sneaky about it, but I'm specifically grinding work contacts and don't wanna jeopardize that for any reason right now.

Just mac. That used to be a flex.

Yeah, I only use that hot mess of an OS when I get paid to use it lmao

Full Linux shop here. Love it...

Desktops, laptops, servers.

For those rare customer teams meets, we just do it in the browser.

my employer using windows on their machine is their problem. i could be faster via bash in several instances, wouldn't have to wait ours for updates to be done ... but i get to drink tea and listen to complaints about outlook from my co-workers.

it's okay. i get paid.

I believe to be the only one running linux on the work laptop at the company. I told them I'd like to use linux when I applied and they told me "fine, but you will have to install and maintain it on your own, we have no support personal for this".

I installed arch linux and have been happy for years. MS Teams runs in my browser.

No. We are a proper engineering company.

Office 365 and teams work fine on Linux in Chrome or Firefox, including voice calls, video calls and screen sharing, and notifications with pop-ups and sounds.

Excel, in particular, is 100% inside Office365 in the browser when I have to interact with it. In the past, I have created Excel files in LibreOfffice and uploaded them to Office365 to convert. Though I haven't been tempted to do so in a few years.

Most of my coworkers are not aware that I run Linux at work. My boss knows and doesn't care. My peers are just surprised when I mention it, because I use the same tools without issue.

Zoom works great on Linux, as well, both in bowers and as the native app. Many corporate VPNs are compiant with open standards, and so don't even require any additional install. Cisco's isn't made right, but they provide a Linux client that works fine.

Slack works fine in browser, including full first class notifications. I haven't sought out a dedicated client app, but I recall having some options.

DropBox and Google have particularly decent Linux client applications, and of course, fully functional web tools.

There's also some excellent ways to run Android apps nearly seemlessly inside an Android emulator of Linux. In theory, I could resort to those, but I haven't because everything I need works in a web browser now.

I've heard that the two glaring exceptions are AutoCad and Adobe Creative Suite. I understand that neither works on Linux or in a browser (per other threads on Lemmy).

Oh yeah, and Linux has more and better ways to produce nice PDFs than Windows does, and of course reads them without issue

Oh, and yes, mandatory compliance stuff like antivirus tools and CrowdStrike also have compliant options for Linux. Some of the really shitty spyware level invasive stuff probably hasn't been ported to Linux, but the "keep me virus free" stuff seems pretty available - because they want to sell copies for Linux servers.

Edit: If this seems needlessly thorough, it is because I worked to independently verify all of these details before my upgrade. I figure my notes might help someone making the case to switch, or just researching whether they need to not switch.

I'm a teacher and I make Linux work for me. Open doc formats get converted to pdf for the shitty windows 7 running the printer in the printing room, and the Android/Windows only app for communications I just run on my phone. PPTs run fine. When there was a problem with the projector, 'IT guy' went to my laptop, got confused (it's Gnome), I told him not to interfere with it because it's Linux. He proceeded to say 'Ah, not working because it's not windows.' Later that day he actually came to fix the cable to the projector.

Company went "here's your budget for ordering a laptop. Put on it whatever you want", and so there's NixOS running on it :)

(To be fair though: small-ish, tech focused company)

Debian at home. Red Hat at work. I have tried to talk them into better OS choices, but really I'm just glad to not be on Windows.