• @Zeth0s@lemmy.world
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    121 year ago

    I am familiar with all 3. Power user some would say. But I must use unix. I do ML/AI, corporations pay money for the ML/AI guys and give them windows. Like partecipating to an f1 race with a Fiat panda…

    For my work windows is simply painfully useless

    • @Llewellyn@lemmy.ml
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      31 year ago

      It’s just windows being almost default OEM OS. Why should they bother to install Linux over it for you while they don’t know particular flavour of Linux you like?

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        1 year ago

        Because they need to maintain multiple huge servers and virtual machines with my favorite flavor of Linux, to make us doing the job very ineffectively. Because Linux does the job they need, it is needed, no escape, while windows is just for outlook and for creating issues.

        I am paid enough that I really should not complain if companies waste money on the wrong tools for the job. Most of my salary pays to find solutions to problems that exist only because of windows. They have to waste a lot of money because the former accenture guy they hired as head of IT support (or whoever decides for the laptops) told them that windows is the only possible solution for big corporations. Good for them.

        As said I am seriously thinking about starting my own start up, because my experience with corporate IT has been so miserable in all places I worked (outside academia, that has many defects, but at least they can manage a decent IT).

        • @Linssiili@sopuli.xyz
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          11 year ago

          Is it forbidden to install a different OS? I’m propably ignorant as in all my dev jobs so far (N=1), I have been permitted (and encouraged) to install OS of my choice.

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            Nope unfortunately. Having worked in finance and pharma I have access to systems with sensitive data (and build them). IT is responsible for everything. When we set up a cluster, for instance, we say what to do, at the level of the single command line, but the work is physically done by an engineer from IT.