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"private equity buys a company and drives it to shit." Allow me to introduce you to VMware. It was bought out by Broadcom. That sounds like a tech firm buyin

"private equity buys a company and drives it to shit." Allow me to introduce you to VMware. It was bought out by Broadcom. That sounds like a tech firm buying a tech firm. It isn't really. Broadcom is (not really) run by Robert Redford from the film "Pretty Woman", except this asset stripping exercise is rather more unpleasant than even his efforts. VMware used to have a flourishing eco system. It managed to largely throw off plagiarism threats from when it was ESX vs ESXi. It was basically Linux (Redhat) with knobs on and fuck you freetards but here's a freebie version that we have cobbled together. Anyway. I was a VMware fanboi for roughly 25 years and now I am not. I was also a Windows (MS) fanboi too for some decades. Can't be arsed these days but I will. Dealing with Windows and VMware is really unpleasant these days.

supportengineer 1y ago
Meanwhile, Linux just keeps getting better.
- gerdesj 1y ago
  I have been developing a Linux desktop using "off the shelf" (Kubuntu) for "enterprise" use, for some years now. By the word enterprise I actually mean "I've called your bluff"! In the "enterprise" world you need to do Secure Boot, AV, and encrypted at rest. Debian and Ubuntu int al can do SB. The tricky one for Linux is AV. I deploy ESET, which only supports Debian/Mint/Ubuntu. AD (LDAP n Kerberos) for auth via Winbind or SSSD etc is an easy given but the equivalent of drive mapping is a bit harder. Especially when VPNs are in use. Windows will keep on trying but the Unix/Linux mounting thing isn't quite so ... forgiving. Neither are perfect but I have no idea on how to even start on a discussion about something that might be called ephemeral mounts.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
    > Windows will keep on trying but the Unix/Linux mounting thing isn't quite so ... forgiving. Neither are perfect but I have no idea on how to even start on a discussion about something that might be called ephemeral mounts. Can you make it systemd's problem by making a mount unit that explicitly depends on the VPN service? Or maybe you want something like autofs?
relwin 1y ago
Richard Gere was the lead in "Pretty Woman", not Robert Redford.
nunez 1y ago
From the inside, VMW had a lot of trouble finding the next big market and Broadcom offered impossibly good money for it.

supportengineer 1y ago

Meanwhile, Linux just keeps getting better.

gerdesj 1y ago
I have been developing a Linux desktop using "off the shelf" (Kubuntu) for "enterprise" use, for some years now. By the word enterprise I actually mean "I've called your bluff"! In the "enterprise" world you need to do Secure Boot, AV, and encrypted at rest. Debian and Ubuntu int al can do SB. The tricky one for Linux is AV. I deploy ESET, which only supports Debian/Mint/Ubuntu. AD (LDAP n Kerberos) for auth via Winbind or SSSD etc is an easy given but the equivalent of drive mapping is a bit harder. Especially when VPNs are in use. Windows will keep on trying but the Unix/Linux mounting thing isn't quite so ... forgiving. Neither are perfect but I have no idea on how to even start on a discussion about something that might be called ephemeral mounts.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
  > Windows will keep on trying but the Unix/Linux mounting thing isn't quite so ... forgiving. Neither are perfect but I have no idea on how to even start on a discussion about something that might be called ephemeral mounts. Can you make it systemd's problem by making a mount unit that explicitly depends on the VPN service? Or maybe you want something like autofs?

relwin 1y ago

Richard Gere was the lead in "Pretty Woman", not Robert Redford.

nunez 1y ago

From the inside, VMW had a lot of trouble finding the next big market and Broadcom offered impossibly good money for it.