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I wish to thank the dedicated people who make this happen. I'm forced to use Apple hardware at work, but thankfully can run whatever OS I choose. Here's to the
by rocky1138 10y ago
I wish to thank the dedicated people who make this happen. I'm forced to use Apple hardware at work, but thankfully can run whatever OS I choose. Here's to the crazy ones.
- augustl 10y ago> Here's to the crazy ones. That one hit home.. Based on my lack of options (Windows sucks, macOS is OK but the hardware sucks, Linux lacks a desktop ecosystem) I feel just like a crazy one, a misfit, the ones Apple addressed in that legendary ad.
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- verandaguy 10y ago>Linux lacks a desktop ecosystem Granted, I'm more of a terminal power user, but what's missing (honest question)? GNOME and KDE are both very refined and mature, and there are plenty more stable, if a bit less full-featured DEs. There's the LibreOffice suite, which is stable, well-maintained, and feature-rich. VLC is arguably an extremely stable and full-featured media player with Linux support. Firefox and Chromium are both widely available on Linux. Thunderbird and Slack ship for Linux, too. I can scarcely think of other software you might need to run on Linux.
- augustl 10y agoI was thinking more in terms of an ecosystem for desktop app developers. Let's say you want to make a game for Linux. How do you package it? Do you have to make RPMs, debs and/or something else? Do you rely on dependencies available on the system, or do you build a binary with all dependencies statically linked? Do you care about inclusion in the package managers for the various distros? What do you use for Audio? You might want to use Pulse, but what if the user does not have Pulse installed? What if your game includes a launcher with a login form etc, do you choose QT or GTK? Do you have to test your game on the top 3 popupar distros? Top 5? And so on.
- monochromatic 10y agoWhat kind of office lets you install a new OS on their machines?
- op00to 10y agoI work for a major enterprise software company. We can install whatever we want on our computers as long as we use full disk encryption.
- fulafel 10y agoWhy not?
- monochromatic 10y agoIT burden.
- Spivak 10y agoWeird, I would never imagine locking down development workstations -- how would you ever get anything done? Just one example would be Docker, having access is equivalent to root so why beat around the bush? Our office basically treats development boxes the same as BYOD except the company buys the hardware. IT will do best effort diagnostics and recovery on those machines but otherwise you're on your own.
- monochromatic 10y agoEh I don't even necessarily mean locking stuff down. But having standardized images to roll out makes things simpler, keeping patches up to date, etc.
- wjoe 10y agoSmall companies usually. It helps being somewhere that runs a cross platform stack like Java and/or targets Linux servers anyway. Once I'd been here a few months, they trusted me not to brick the laptop, they're fine with me installing Linux on a Mac if I say it works better for me and I can leave OS X on there as a dual boot. Big companies are usually less willing, either due to some OS specific software or policies that enforce some specific encryption/security/monitoring.
- warmfuzzykitten 10y agoIt actually does sound kinda crazy. If you're forced to use Mac at work, why mess around with some buggy, craptastic Linux-on-the-Mac when you can use use the perfectly good Unix already on the Mac.