He didn’t. He wanted freax or something dumb. Someone talked him into Linux.

Why did you get kicked out?

Bots in the build up to the election here in the states?

You know what makes my Linux distribution perfect? My windows partition that I can switch to quickly.

This might help:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=263166

MacOS.

It’s the middle ground between windows and Linux imo.

It’s unix-y enough to give you tons of flexibility with the terminal. Homebrew is one of the better package management systems out there. Iterm2 is the best terminal emulator I’ve used.

You get access to most popular software still and the hardware is unmatched.

It’s more expensive and less flexible in terms of OS customization though and you basically can’t game on it. I think there are some good tiling window managers for it though.

And green. All associated with the more popular variants pfsense, opnsense, truenas, and freebsd.

Data truly is beautiful

lmfao got em

That last part isn’t a fact. We don’t have a ruling and we don’t know how they will vote.

(God knows how this court will vote but don’t spread misinformation)

Probably have a porn and PC game filter to thank for my career in IT

Wait so people got butthurt that a company made a deal with nix. That company also does business with ICE. And people are mad at Nix?

What am I missing?

Also companies and open source entities do business with all manner of government(s) all the time.

So is homeless a bad word now or something? Why did we invent a new word this?

I think the part about teams that bothers me the most is the broader o365, windows, onedrive, SharePoint etc “integration”. It’s so fucking bad.

I never know where anything is saving. Locally? On my one drive? In a temp folder that is findable and that file doesn’t even show up as a recent file? Or is it on some weird SharePoint backend that teams is using? Am I having an offline copy or did I just inadvertently save a copy to the shared drive?

It’s all just bad enough that it’s a horrendous overall user experience.

It feels like MS gets in the way more than it let’s me do my job. I didn’t always feel this way.

To top it off, the way people use it causes issues. Everyone does it differently. You could have people that use outlook for sending docs, people that use teams exclusively, people that use both, people that send share links in email, people that just tag you in some buried “team” you didn’t ever want to be a part of.

Then they’re like “did you see the thing I sent you?” …

Like fucking where?!? Where did you send it?! Let me go search for it–oh well search sucks, the activity feed is almost too verbose so meaningful things get buried too fast.

Bleh. The amount of productivity lost to MS software offsets almost any productivity gain we get from it. It’s a “wash” at best these days.

I think what he is saying is that you’d be jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

They probably had an advanced distributed snapshot backup system. Where any and all employees that used the file in the last 10 years had a version of it saved from a point in time–potentially even on their personal machines or as email attachments to their personal emails.

I’m blown away that you’ve managed to be offended by this.

Zero trust has entered the chat

Why not both?

Let’s say MS charges $5M a year.

Their support contract, assuming they get one, for libre office might be $1M.

They could still invest another $1M in OSS and still save $3M

A $1M net gain for OSS and a $3M savings for the govt.

“me watching a senior dev who makes more than me try to brief senior leadership”

We all have our talents. Some stuff is “table stakes” baseline stuff, but with the way MS has bungled their software these days I’ll never judge anyone for not knowing how to do something “simple” because MS has made most tasks infuriatingly difficult.

Ms365, onedrive, and teams integration makes me feel like the PDF saver.

I’m fucking smart and I crush my job, but the way they’ve “integrated” all of their dumb services has me asking my team to “just send me a $&@$ing email with the pdf”.

My job isn’t MS office guru. My job involves using PPTs, docs, XLS, etc to get funding, effect strategy, guide investment, brief senior leadeahip, and all that. But holy shit I feel like I turn into a clown/Luddite with dumb MS office tools.