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Most employers would give you some choice over your work machine don't they?
by smackeyacky 5y ago
Most employers would give you some choice over your work machine don't they?
- happymellon 5y agoNo. Most employers I've encountered pick one for you. The best I've had is the choice of Windows or Mac. They have never let me pick Linux. [Edit] Actually, one did. That was also the first place that I used Linux containers, long before Docker Desktop was a thing, and before the hype train really got rolling. Back when Docker really made sense for process isolation, rather than using it as a lazy Linux VM for building on your laptop.
- smackeyacky 5y agoSo, at the moment, if you are expected to do docker builds targetting linux servers, the clear logical choice is windows and wsl2 if you can't have a linux desktop, right?
- happymellon 5y agoCurrent work location gives developers Mac's. Something about the data scientists preferring Python which works significantly better on Mac's than Windows. I would disagree that WSL2 is a clear choice. That would mean using Windows, which is a trainwreck of a UI, and gets less consistent with each release. Has Windows 11 fixed multi-desktops yet? I personally find using Linux, with Gnome, so much more pleasant than either Windows or Mac. Much more consistent and without the arbitrary restrictions.