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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Linux in the corporate space (self.linux)

submitted 5 months ago by Tekkip20 to c/[email protected]

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I made this post because I am really curious if Linux is used in offices and educational centres like schools.

While we all know Windows is the mac-daddy in the business space, are there any businesses you know or workplaces that actually Linux as a business replacement for Windows?

I.e. Mint or Ubuntu, I am not strictly talking about the server side of things.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Myself and several of !y coworkers use Linux at work bit, to be fair, it is a tech job.

[–] Caboose12000 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

what kinds of tech jobs allow workers to choose what OS they use? where I live it seems most tech jobs won't even let you install you your own software preferences unless its on their approved list, let alone install your own OS. they're too worried about company security and IT's ability to manage the hardware

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Dev jobs and data scientists often get a lot of leeway.

Very big tech companies tend to be more open to it. When I was at AWS their threat model was basically to treat every end user device as untrusted, which then meant that they didn't rely on keeping laptops locked down for security.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I work in threat detection research, and since most of what I'm looking at is people trying to get frisky with a Linux server my job is fine with using Linux for our work computers