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Well, or you can use the tools they give you to do your job :) I agree the focus isn't there. I was managing everything "not Windows" as an endpoint architect
by _abox 5y ago
Well, or you can use the tools they give you to do your job :)
I agree the focus isn't there. I was managing everything "not Windows" as an endpoint architect and it was very difficult to get other teams to consider them. Makes sense because "not Windows" was less than 1% of our userbase. So I had to really push for them to select tools like VPN and antivirus that support Linux and Mac.
However we did manage. What I did see a lot was that R&D users didn't want to use the standard supported distro (which by the way I picked with their input). They complained about all the mandatory antivirus software (which was not my choice, but the security team's mandate). But really there was a very high amount of "I just want to manage everything myself" going on too. You can't have it both ways though. Either you get a managed endpoint and you have to roll with some of the decisions or you do it all yourself (and in some cases are locked out of some critical environments due to security policy)
This is fine (well fine by me, but not by our security team!) but then don't complain about how hard it is to get it set up.
I can see how WSL fits well into this for companies, though I prefer real Linux myself too. A lot of R&D users would be on Mac as it's a "Linuxy enough" OS with much less hurdles in a corporate environment (native MS Office available etc).