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This is a terrible way to evaluate companies/people, and it comes off as a “Linux person” who refuses to understand why companies use Windows. The fact is that
by orev 2y ago
This is a terrible way to evaluate companies/people, and it comes off as a “Linux person” who refuses to understand why companies use Windows.
The fact is that Windows has leagues more control features (Group Policy, etc.) than Linux does, and those features are required for any kind of sane management of an IT landscape, and are also required in many industries for compliance reasons. And no, Ansible etc. is not the same thing.
The better way to evaluate is to discuss why they chose that tool for any particular job. Linux is often the right answer for servers, and Windows often the right answer for end user computers. But there may be cases where a specific case is better suited to a different tool.
- neilv 2y ago> and it comes off as a “Linux person” who refuses to understand why companies use Windows. One comment in, and I think the litmus test is already working well.
- axus 2y agoThis seems like a good chance for me to learn. What software do the Linux people planning the budget and schedule for a big project use?
- Kokouane 2y agoIt's high overhead, but having a VM just for Excel isn't that insane. Performance differences these days are negligible, and if you are just using Excel I doubt it's that much of a problem. There is also Google Sheets. For planning, Jira is king and available as a web app.
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoWhy do you need specifically Excel? Why not literally any native sheet application, most of which can save to .xlsx?
- yttribium 2y agoLarge chunks of the world economy run on specifically Excel.
- talldayo 2y agoGoogle Sheets and Airtable, from what I've seen.
- QuadmasterXLII 2y agoI mean the funnies answer would be emacs
- ASalazarMX 2y agoMaybe even a reverse litmus test. You can't go full-Linux and ignore Windows, otherwise you'll become illiterate in the most used consumer desktop OS after a few years when Microsoft messes it up even more :P Becoming a Linux user is great, becoming a Linux/Windows/Mac/TempleOS/etc. zealot is not.
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoYou take that back, TempleOS is obviously the best computer system. No networking is a true blessing, and the 640x480 is undeniably crisp and far more practical than 1920x1080. And do I even need to mention the elephants?
- jojobas 2y ago> You can't go full-Linux and ignore Windows, otherwise you'll become illiterate in the most used consumer desktop OS Yes you can, the Gandhi/Swadeshi way.
- beefnugs 2y agoevery year i think, damn this linux desktop has been great for a while now! oops now i am getting full computer lockups worse than i have ever seen on windows even: i dont know if this is : some recent intel microcode affecting 11gen somehow? wayland gnome? tracker-miner-fs3 3500 sql errors per second... is this the problem or symptom? ubuntu delaying 24.04 updates from 22.04... guess i just wait a month in case that helps, did upgrading my framework bios make it worse or better? it happens to be more common when opening youtube tabs... is this some kind of malicious youtube vs uBlock war bullshit? NO idea how to troubleshoot this kind of low level full lockup that i haven't learned in 20 years of linux experience (not enough desktop experience i guess) On the plus, i did learn about alt+print-screen+ (R E I S U B ) which is a horrifying thing to remember, let alone need to use it
- OJFord 2y agoGP said their engineers; I absolutely sympathise with not wanting to work somewhere with mandatory Windows, I might forget to ask, but I can't/am unwilling to work like that. MacOS I can get by with, but in web software engineering at least I would say Windows is unusual, and being someone who 'refuses to understand why' a company would force its engineers to use Windows is not going to be that restrictive for someone in that industry. It's my primary tool really, and it affects all the others!