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For tech and art, yes, that's been a solid Apple domain for decades. But your average paper pusher bureaucrat? They get a crap 500$ Dell/HP that constantly has
by mschuster91 3y ago
For tech and art, yes, that's been a solid Apple domain for decades. But your average paper pusher bureaucrat? They get a crap 500$ Dell/HP that constantly has issues because there's no budget for better stuff and 90% of the non-Web/SaaS software in that area is solid Windows-only.
- rbanffy 3y agoFrom my past couple years, I only saw Windows laptops in accounting and HR. You could get a Windows loaner when you needed to check something a customer was experiencing you couldn’t reproduce on the Mac. Linux has been rare mostly for compliance and regulatory issues - corporate IT thinks it’s too easy for a determined Linux geek to take over the machine and bypass all safeguards.
- mschuster91 3y ago> Linux has been rare mostly for compliance and regulatory issues - corporate IT thinks it’s too easy for a determined Linux geek to take over the machine and bypass all safeguards. And that's because it is... when Grub boots, press e, add init=/bin/sh (or rdinit), and boom you have a root shell. In case the admins did think far enough to deal with implementing Grub password protection or secure boot of some kind, wait a couple months, and there will be some sort of local privilege escalation exploits (there's about one a year). In addition to that, Linux doesn't exactly play nice with corporate snake-oil solutions - these are more hassle than they're worth it as they constantly break.
- yywwbbn 3y ago> 500$ Dell/HP that constantly has issues because there's no budget So they wouldn’t buy any macOS licenses unless they are <$50 either? Which makes it totally not worth it and would result in a significant decline in revenue for Apple