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Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm getting sick every day at this Microsoft Windows slowness and bloat. I am trying to use as much Linux VMs as possible. I feel so unproductive on Windows. I also tried installing Linux on the office laptop. The problem is that Windows is officialy supported and the Linux is DYI. Once the IT departament changes it will sync up with Windows but Linux can be broken and you are no longer able to work. Next job I want to have full Linux laptop or at least Mac.

Besides:

Microsoft Office
Active Directory
Some proxy and VPN bullshit

Everything seems manageable and even better on Linux.

What is your experience?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you're on Mint still, that's X11 fucking you over. AFAIK, Mint hasn't moved to Wayland, though you might be able to install an experimental session, but I wouldn't trust it like a distro that's all-in on Wayland.

I used to contend with monitors jumping around like a jack russell terrier with X11, never keeping settings, dropping out due to ACPI. Wayland has fixed pretty much everything I had going wrong with that stuff.

Boot a live USB of some distros that default to Wayland like Fedora, and see how it reacts to screensaving, then make some choices from there.

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

I moved to macOS full time now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do you like it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I like it a lot. The initial move was predicated by working in the entertainment industry and all the shows coming through our theater needed qlab.

But after that I started using it for personal use. I was unable to move my photoshop cs6 license over because I have been unable to get a copy of it in 64bit. But I have since switched to affinity. It has a steep learning curve, but I mostly use it for graphics for my shop so it does what I need it to do.

I have been using libre office since forever, that moved over with me.

Before getting my MacBook Pro I was doing most of my gaming on my ps5, so I am not missing a lot there. But most of the games I do play are available on the Mac (No Man’s Sky, FF14, Palia, mudlet, Apico, Mudborne).

When I connect a monitor it works, when I connect a TV through my 4x4 matrix it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yet Wayland is still working on proper color management… which doesn’t make it fit for professional work