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[โ€“] spicytuna62 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I think I'd get fired if I walked into the office with Debian installed on my work laptop.

Tempting...

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When you've REALLY had it, you can walk into work with Kali installed on your work laptop. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] Confused_Emus 2 points 5 months ago

I work from home using a work provided laptop. One day my partner at the time was working on setting up a Kali machine, and every time they connected to the network my work laptop would cease all network communication. Guess whatever security software/settings my work laptop had was made very nervous by a Kali machine on the same network.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

All of our laptops are either Mac or Linux. Eight or ten years ago it was all Mac but now it's mostly Linux. Ultimately, clients that have closed Windows ecosystems always provide us with laptops or a jump station to connect to. So if they are going to do that anyway, there was no need for us to Windows internally.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I bet that saves you a boatload in senseless licensing costs and lost time dealing with Microsoft's shenanigans!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. Enterprise license and MSDN was expensive and a pain in the ass. Once we dropped support for Microsoft as a whole and transitioned to Google Apps (early adopters) everything became easy. OSX never broke, although the hardware could be problematic at times. The main reason most of us started transitioning to Linux from Mac was Apple's hardware choices. That said, I have a MBP M3 Max for music and graphics and that Apple silicone is absolutely beastly.

[โ€“] Valmond 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe hardware requirements have been met nowadays with even basic hardware (gaming excepted), I have a quad core linux and my SO has an old quad core mac, no real need to upgrade those. My brand new thinkpad for work is running windows, well not actually running, merely walking IMO, everything has to be scanned and uploaded, there are moments the whole PC freezes up for 30-40 seconds to check if you should be able to launch that same app again ...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That sounds like a dream. I use an MBP for work because the alternative is Windows. It really just ends up being a glorified ssh terminal to get to my Linux VM. I felt bad enough at one point that I switched to kitty to make better use of the M2 capabilities.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have Arch on my workstation at work, and I love it

(With permission, of course)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Creats worm that installs Linux on every workstation. It somehow leaves the network and is running rampant in the wild.

[โ€“] Diplomjodler3 1 points 6 months ago

The only thing you have to lose is your OneDrive ads.