• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
        3·
        vor 5 Monaten

        All of our laptops are either Mac or Linux. Eight or ten years ago it was all Mac but now it’s mostly Linux. Ultimately, clients that have closed Windows ecosystems always provide us with laptops or a jump station to connect to. So if they are going to do that anyway, there was no need for us to Windows internally.

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          4·
          vor 5 Monaten

          I bet that saves you a boatload in senseless licensing costs and lost time dealing with Microsoft’s shenanigans!

          • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
            4·
            vor 5 Monaten

            Absolutely. Enterprise license and MSDN was expensive and a pain in the ass. Once we dropped support for Microsoft as a whole and transitioned to Google Apps (early adopters) everything became easy. OSX never broke, although the hardware could be problematic at times. The main reason most of us started transitioning to Linux from Mac was Apple’s hardware choices. That said, I have a MBP M3 Max for music and graphics and that Apple silicone is absolutely beastly.

            • Valmond@lemmy.world
              1·
              vor 5 Monaten

              Maybe hardware requirements have been met nowadays with even basic hardware (gaming excepted), I have a quad core linux and my SO has an old quad core mac, no real need to upgrade those. My brand new thinkpad for work is running windows, well not actually running, merely walking IMO, everything has to be scanned and uploaded, there are moments the whole PC freezes up for 30-40 seconds to check if you should be able to launch that same app again …

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          vor 5 Monaten

          That sounds like a dream. I use an MBP for work because the alternative is Windows. It really just ends up being a glorified ssh terminal to get to my Linux VM. I felt bad enough at one point that I switched to kitty to make better use of the M2 capabilities.

        • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          vor 5 Monaten

          Creats worm that installs Linux on every workstation. It somehow leaves the network and is running rampant in the wild.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    vor 5 Monaten

    Just… don’t install the update?

    …oh right, you don’t actually own your computer under Windows.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    vor 5 Monaten

    We joke / complain about this all the time at work. Boss puts in some drop-everything emergency ticket.

    Windows Update: Imma let you finish, but first I gotta do some work 'round here.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      vor 5 Monaten

      You could just set up a scheduled maintenance period. Group policy plus other tools can do it for you.

  • pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world
    7·
    vor 5 Monaten

    First of I run linux on my personal machine.
    Second, I shut down my work machine at the end of the day and if there is an update - let it update. The result? Not a single problem with windows updates in years! Strange, I know.

    Sidenote: I always thought people were partially making fun of windows updates because you have to reboot all the time. I have to log out to switch from integrated to dedicated graphics in Linux and pretty much 90% of all updates require a reboot. And to conserve battery I have to shut down the laptop anyway, since hibernation is but a dream. But whatever, it’s not a competition.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      3·
      vor 5 Monaten

      When you have a nice setup in programming (compiler, database, diverse docs, shells etc), you don’t want to shut all that down. If you can, good for you!

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        vor 5 Monaten

        My dev VM is almost entirely disposable. Could be up and running again, fresh in 30-60min, not counting time to pull the repo. Why use a local db server? Seems weird to me but, I came to development through SysAdmin and support stuff, so, was used to not owning the machine that I was on. That probably has heavily influenced my workflow.

        Out of curiosity, would you mind sharing a bit any the languages/frameworks and workflows that you are using? I’m mainly using Go, C++, Python, and a few others and just having trouble figuring out how I’d arrive at a situation like that. No CI/CD and test systems?

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      1·
      vor 5 Monaten

      Windows Update is just dogslow and forces a reboot. For me even a significant distro update takes much less time and it doesn’t force you to reboot (nor to update for that matter).

      I don’t have to reboot after an update very often, almost never really. It’s kernel updates where I have to reboot, other stuff I can restart and avoid it that way if I still want to keep the pc on.

      I know on some systems hibernation (suspend-to-disk) can be fiddly. For me it worked out of the box which was nice.

    • archchan@lemmy.ml
      3·
      vor 5 Monaten

      Who said anything about asking? The updates continue until the profits improve.

    • Undaunted@lemmynsfw.com
      1·
      vor 5 Monaten

      I had Windows force a reboot and I could not do anything about it. And in multiple cases it did not let me to shut down my laptop without installing updates. It’s really fun when you’re in a rush and have to leave and take your laptop with you, but Microshit does not let you shutdown your fucking PC without doing updates for the next 15-20 minutes :)

  • Sorgan71@lemmy.world
    4·
    vor 5 Monaten

    I feel like now both linux users and vegans fill the same social niche of being the most defensive and annoying person in the room.