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No, you have one Linux user who is now scrambling to get it to work or is using a device that will make it work. Your example sort of under cuts your argument,
by burnished 5y ago
No, you have one Linux user who is now scrambling to get it to work or is using a device that will make it work. Your example sort of under cuts your argument, just imagine sending that email "I will not be attending our remote meetings due to what some may call a philosophical argument with Zoom, rest assured, I am in the right, and as soon as they see the light and correct their ways, I will start attending meetings again".
Instead, in frustration, they will reach for another device. They will use an old laptop, or a smartphone, something.
- AshamedCaptain 5y agoOr they will switch to Windows. I used to be in a company that was developing _desktop software exclusively for Linux_ (not multiplatform at all -- Gtk+ based!), and they all (even the developers) used Windows workstations. They would use Windows conferencing software, Windows PIM, Windows mail clients, Windows WWW browsers, Windows IDEs. But all of them would religiously VNC into a Linux server somewhere just to test the tool they were writing. Which they would screencast to fellow developers using Windows software. Nowadays, they likely use Teams (still for Windows). No one developer found this bizarre. They all claimed it was the same in competitors or previous jobs. When I asked IT "can I get a laptop with Linux, not Windows?" the response was "but how will you run Outlook?".