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I use the operating system my employer chooses. I have exactly zero influence over that. Believe me, I've tried.

• SECProto 8y ago
  > I use the operating system my employer chooses. I have exactly zero influence over that. Believe me, I've tried. You've missed a key line of what GP said: > A lot of people will argue that it's not practical, too much effort, too costly. That's fine, but don't expect anything to change. It's not practical, and it's a lot of effort, and it's too costly, but you could use a different operating system. Find an employer who doesn't use that operating system. The "cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face" option.
  • bairrd 8y ago
    "Find an employer who doesn't use that operating system" might be a viable option if we lived in a world where healthcare wasn't tied to employment, teleportation made geographic realities feasible, and no borders existed. Free market solutions aren't feasible the vast majority of the time.
    • e12e 8y ago
      > if we lived in a world where healthcare wasn't tied to employment Lived in part of the world where healthcare wasn't tied to employment
      • jenscow 8y ago
        Exactly. I'd try to fix that before worrying about my OS.
    • komali2 8y ago
      Well, that's why I yell about all those things too. You don't have to become a mountainman. You can't solve children starving in Africa at the same time as you solve racial inequality in the American justice system. It's fine to just pick a couple issues and do what you can. If your contribution to open source is pestering your boss about it regularly, well, there you go. Yell about it on Twitter a bit as well, maybe write your congressperson. There's options.
• purerandomness 8y ago
  You have influence over who your employer is.
  • VikingCoder 8y ago
    Sorry, but do you really think there are competitive employers lined up who use DIFFERENT OSes and Browsers?