Honestly, I agree with @StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net
Ok fair enough, but I wouldn’t have installed Linux if I had not seen it recommended.
I’m not a computer toucher, but I can follow written advice.
These sorts of posts always scold anyone giving out actual solutions just so being miserable can continue. This cultural thing almost has an end of history type vibe to it. It’s also pretty hostile to divergent and often solution focused neurotypes.
Linux evangelism kinda makes sense, no one is spending billions on marketing and ads for it. I think Linux evangelists should ask about use cases first, instead of just posting a generic “use Linux”.
I wonder how many just commented without even reading.
Asking for Linux at work can succeed too.
All my coworkers are either my age or older; If I asked for Linux and they installed it, my coworkers would beat me to death with their now entirely alien computers
Did they say the comic countered every single example? There were many that the comic is applicable to. And to be honest, even in many work contexts, there’s room to “push” for Linux as a solution.
No, but if you have to use Windows for work, you should be able to complain about it.
Use Linux
I can’t, that’s the point.
There’s always a solution
I wonder if you commented that without reading
It’s not fair to change the OP
I didn’t get this far as a poster by playing fair
Bug your IT dept to let you remote into your Wondows box from your Linux machine?
I did that, they wanted me to get a writeup for them since they couldn’t figure out how to get strongswan configured and a decent RDP connection established on Linux.
freerdp and some nmcli bash scripts saved me lol. Now I run one command to connect to a work PC with all my monitors then kill the connection to jump back into Linux. Even got drive bindings with USB and printer passthrough working
The comic did not say people shouldn’t be allowed to complain about stuff. In fact, I’ve seen nobody here say that.
Yeah but like what. What OS level stuff do you futz around with on a work computer unless you’re in some sort of rinkydink-operation where everybody has full admin rights.
Don’t mind me RDPing into my work machine to… open Outlook
how is this a windows fault. you could RDP into your work machine to open Thunderbird and that’d still suck?
Or use Outlook 365 or whatever the web version is called. So the bottleneck is really “will the IT dept allow it?”
What the fuck are you winning with using MS O365 on non-windows here. Like the web version especially is mostly OS-agnostic and if youre entire job is that I come back to my original question: What OS-Level bullshit is plaguing you
I don’t see it as “winning” or “losing”. Use what you want.
I think a ton of the friction behind switching is just fear of change. If your job is emails and Teams calls that can be handled on whatever Linux distribution you prefer. So it’s a question of training and support.
Large companies should be leaving Microsoft for most non-server & non-dev roles just to save money, but people have to be ok touching a computer that isn’t blessed with Microsoft or Apple OSs
Again I ask if your entire job exists in e-mail and teams what even is the OS part you interface with and as such would require training
☝️ this right here. There’s a reason Linux nerds always tell you to try Linux.