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Red Hat employees traditionally use Macs and Windows PCs.
by techntoke 8y ago
Red Hat employees traditionally use Macs and Windows PCs.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoIs this really the case? I had always heard that part of the reason ThinkPads have such good Linux support is their use internally at Red Hat (who pushed the relevant code upstream).
- techntoke 8y agoYes it really is. There are some people internally that use Fedora, but even they are becoming more rare. Canonical on the otherhand requires their employees use their distro. I personally run Arch and haven't had issues on any hardware that I've tested, and it has the benefit of staying current with the latest stable kernel and software, so it doesn't have to backport fixes and features.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoMy understanding (via the Ubuntu podcast) is that Canonical allows people (outside of core desktop team) to use at least non-Ubuntu distros.
- techntoke 8y agoThis could be a more recent change, but while I was working there in 2015 it was part of the hiring process to use your own laptop with Ubuntu, and that is how they would test compatibility with multiple devices. Heck, if I could run Arch Linux, I'd consider going back.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoThis is all third hand information on my part, but I would guess that Canonical's shift towards server and away from desktop could be related.