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This is hilarious. The idea that the typical IT admin wishes that Linda in Marketing would use Linux is so divorced from reality. IT just wants a fleet of syst

by dangus 3y ago

This is hilarious. The idea that the typical IT admin wishes that Linda in Marketing would use Linux is so divorced from reality. IT just wants a fleet of systems that are easy to automatically deploy, patch, and restrict dangerous actions on. The easier they are for the lowest common denominator employee to use, the fewer tickets get opened. The idea that your IT team will ever waste their time crawling through your local system logs is unrealistic. I’m not saying the log shouldn’t be there or shouldn’t function properly, I just think that macOS being commercial and popular makes it very easy to administer compared to a Linux desktop. You just buy off the shelf products like Jamf and click a few buttons and that’s about it, voila, you have a managed fleet. The architectural elegance of the system is secondary to the amount of labor cost it saves. You can even order a computer directly from Apple shipped to your employee’s house and have it zero touch provisioned. I’d love to see a Linux laptop with that capability (really, I would love to see it).

mberning 3y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted, because this is spot on. You can tell many people on HN nave never worked in an enterprise environment. As a developer I would love to have a Linux laptop, but a Mac is as close as I can get. Companies do not have the resources or wherewithal to manage and secure 3 or more disparate desktop platforms.
pknomad 3y ago
I worked as a CPE before moving onto SRE and this is spot on. Jamf and others like Kandji are excellent tools for deploying, configuring, and erasing the device at scale and same thing for InTune for windows. There’s no equivalent for Linuxes other than agent based CMs like Puppet or Chef and those tools don’t deliver the same features as the tools that are offered for windows and macOS.
WesolyKubeczek 3y ago
> The idea that the typical IT admin wishes that Linda in Marketing would use Linux is so divorced from reality. Truth nowadays is, as long as Chrome can be launched, Linda won’t be able to care less.
- nullindividual 3y ago
  You’d find out real quick that Chome isn’t the only app she needs. That “truth” is also divorced from reality.

by dangus 3y ago

mberning 3y ago

Not sure why you are downvoted, because this is spot on. You can tell many people on HN nave never worked in an enterprise environment. As a developer I would love to have a Linux laptop, but a Mac is as close as I can get. Companies do not have the resources or wherewithal to manage and secure 3 or more disparate desktop platforms.

pknomad 3y ago

I worked as a CPE before moving onto SRE and this is spot on. Jamf and others like Kandji are excellent tools for deploying, configuring, and erasing the device at scale and same thing for InTune for windows. There’s no equivalent for Linuxes other than agent based CMs like Puppet or Chef and those tools don’t deliver the same features as the tools that are offered for windows and macOS.

WesolyKubeczek 3y ago

> The idea that the typical IT admin wishes that Linda in Marketing would use Linux is so divorced from reality. Truth nowadays is, as long as Chrome can be launched, Linda won’t be able to care less.

nullindividual 3y ago
You’d find out real quick that Chome isn’t the only app she needs. That “truth” is also divorced from reality.