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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 16 hours 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] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Those things happen on windows as well

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

I moved to macOS full time now. Things work much better now.

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

Less bloaty? How much?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Corporate support for Macs is usually worth than on Windows.

It is a very risky move.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Nice, why risky?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Yep, many people complain about Wayland and just graphic things in general. On Windows on the other hand sometimes I cannot click buttons. Example: unmute myself in Teams. Why? Because the docking station after some time cannot figure out where is the focus and also Electron sucks. And many other thing like weird behaviour with moving apps' windows from one screen to another.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would argue that they happen way more on Windows. I've never had any of that happen to me on Linux (mostly a Fedora user) but plenty of times on Windows from 7 to 11.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The worst part is it is not Windows fault. The pure kernel and the system without any bloat works great. I tried AtlasOS once and I felt bad for Microsoft engineers that their work is being spoiled with greed, bloat, enshititifaction. Everything was going smoothly and flawlessly.

But so many components are just... Hacky... Unnecessary... Just weird that it barely works especially so many companies don't know what they are doing. Then the dependency hell happens of this software.

Linux on the other hand is so much transparent.