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You underestimate most companies' (with significant internal engineering organizations) commitment to open source. It's been 8 years since I've even had to tou
by busterarm 6y ago
You underestimate most companies' (with significant internal engineering organizations) commitment to open source.
It's been 8 years since I've even had to touch Windows professionally and without any overt effort on my part.
- ianai 6y agoWhere May I work at such places? How do I find them?
- louwrentius 6y agoFor every such workplace there are probably 100 companies that only support a Windows-based computer. I think you overestimate the prevalence of such environments.
- busterarm 6y agoThose companies most often are not hiring thousands of software engineers. That's the context where this matters.
- MivLives 6y agoOr they'll do what they do in the last two places I've worked. "Oh you're a dev? Here's a mac"
- wink 6y agoWell "not touching it at all" would've been great but I've had my main machine on Windows for about 2-3 years out of the last 14, so I don't think that's so rare. Since 2013 I didn't even have a job anyone with a Windows machine /could have done/, because the stuff simply doesn't run or compile. (Yeah, WSL and all, the box was too slow to compile stuff natively already).
- busterarm 6y agoThanks for sharing your story. This is the point I'm making.
- patrec 6y agoThe only reason companies care about open source is because a) it's cheaper b) avoids lock-in and other dependencies I don't see either of these being much of an advantage for linux on the desktop, although they will continue to be on server and embedded.