I keep seeing people say this and it's like have you actually ever used Linux in a production environment?

Linux is great on single computers systems and of course on servers but trying to manage hundreds of desktops, laptops, iPhones, iPads, random Androids you have to support because C suit, and PoS till systems that run on modified Windows XP and you realise you can't just switch everything over to Linux.

Because Linux doesn't have a clue how to support any of that. As much as Windows is trash and I hate it, there is no replacement for Active Directory or SCCM, even Apple don't have such a robust support system.

Oh that's alright, everyone in my office just sticks everything in SharePoint. It's got up to 13 terabytes now and they're already whining that that's not enough. I think they're hosting 4K blu-ray rips in there.

We allow people to have Linux devices or Macs if they want them but they are not our responsibility to fix if they break. If your laptop won't connect to the shared drive because it doesn't support FAT32 or something, that's your problem to fix.

In the past it would have at least been best endeavours to try and get everything up and running again but the company's grown too much and the IT department hasn't so I haven't got time to do anything that isn't strictly speaking my job.

People are always complaining about the IT department but generally the issue is that the IT department is under funded and understaffed.

I think there's an entire department within Microsoft dedicated to just making teams as bad as possible. Is lacks features that other chat apps have had for over a decade that teams doesn't support.

Nah, it's probably a <1mb spreadsheet that's updated daily by multiple people that has never had version control settings enabled and it's taking up taking up 10tb.

SharePoint: this is the way.

Oooh very accurate. There is some "mandatory" signing sheet for reading the monthly safety info but anyone can edit it and most people are incompetent with computers. Took only 2 months for my name to get deleted by somebody and I just...never signed it again. Nobody noticed.

Heck, I'd love it if they added a toggle to not hard-pan all audio to the left channel and drop all input from my microphone until I restart Teams and log in again despite having logged in ten minutes ago.

I have no idea how IT is taught in schools these days, but there should be a lesson somewhere entitled Excel is not a database, don't use it as a database.

I'm still bitter about Mail & Calendar. It worked wonderfully, but of course they decided to discontinue it.

Yeah if you think the guest support for the fs on the physical drive is relevant for a network share you wouldn't be really useful.

Half of the stuff you mentioned already doesn't use Windows.

I've seen places able to include Linux dev machine in their fleet. Not doing it is either laziness, incompetence, or understaffing.

Fucking autocorrect keeps turning itself back on after I disable it in my settings. It fucks up more than it helps and I can type fine, including correcting typos and if I miss one the I miss one.

No it's not it's pragmatism. Is it worth putting in all the effort to support Linux in a corporate environment that mostly runs on office suite applications?

If it was a 30 minute drop in solution then yeah by all means we can experiment with it and we can move over gradually but if it's going to require an extensive project it's not worth it. People complaining about this stuff don't work in the corporate IT world, they live in idealised fantasy land.

If Linux was a sensible solution it would have been adopted years ago. No more licence fees, that gets the stuffed shirts happy.

Jesus. Funny reading this today when my old Outlook has been a complete shit show since last week, with freezing, minute-long loading times and generally being absolutely unusable for no apparent reason.
I'm really loving Outlook right now...

Uhh I think they strap an iPad to a kids head and say worship lord zucc and musky? Seems that way.

I dont think kids learn real computer skills anymore. Pull one 14 year old out of school and have them partition a hard drive. Guarantee they can't.

Very true

Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series

Not true, with my 15th generation Intel processor and Samsung Pro SSD it only take six seconds to open /S

Seriously though, we need ever increasing software requirements so we can keep forcing people to buy new hardware. If that means we just stop optimizing completely and vibe code our way to the 16th generation, so be it.

It is all about support honestly. That is where Linux truly suffers.

On the plus side, the Outlook team's Agile burndown charts for the last 8 sprints look perfect!

Developers, developers, developers!

the fun part with (imo) most autocorrects is that when they correct a word, it's so far removed from the original word that it basically becomes gibberish in context, whereas a word with one or two typos is still parseable by a human

MS: "why aren't people using our product?"

People: