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I’ve been using Linux (Debian) on my work laptops for over a decade now but corporate IT is finally forcing me to switch to Mac for bullshit policy reasons. It

• petepete 6y ago
  The last time I worked for a company with a draconian corporate IT policy the entire technical team in our division had a Windows laptop for email/intranet and a machine of their choosing for actual work. Windows isn't _that_ bad but having to raise a ticket for someone to allow you to install software or read from a USB thumb drive was infuriating.
• jonathanoliver 6y ago
  For work I've got an Arch-based desktop and a MacBook Pro 15". I'm almost exclusively on my desktop (lots of CPU horsepower and tons of RAM) and I use Zoom about 5-6 hours per day. I used the Zoom 4.x binary as well as now the 5.x binary versions that they offer. The experience has been solid for calls, sharing my desktop, etc. I'm curious what kind of issue you experienced. I also agree about not going back to Windows. If anything, I'm really close to dumping my MBP and getting an XPS 13" 9300 and going full Linux.
  • gbuk2013 6y ago
    Zoom works fine except the 2 times I tried to give a presentation to our extended team of ~40 engineers at which point it locked up my session and left a zombie connection behind so I couldn’t rejoin. Having that happen twice when some important people were on the call naturally led to “Zoom works for everyone else except you, and you are using Linux so ...”. They also broke SSO on Linux for several weeks recently which was annoying, but at least they fixed it in the end.