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Office workers - Has anyone here convinced their boss to let them install a Linux distro on their work desktop? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by ohshit604@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Going from Windows to Linux then back to windows sucks.

Edit; Going through the comments it seems it doesn’t matter so long as IT supports the operating system, which is fair, in my scenario I’m not involved with our systems-management/IT/developers unless it’s an update to the software we use.

My desktop at work is still Windows 10 and while it works, kinda, my keyboard shortcuts are almost entirely different, I’ve encountered numerous moments where switching tab either by alt-tabbing or by the taskbar not working at all forcing me to minimize everything till I find that tab, couple times it wouldn’t even boot.

I started unplugging the Ethernet cable when I leave for work so IT can’t do any behind the scenes when I’m away.

I dredd the day they force a win 11 desktop on me.

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[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't convince anyone, I just did it.

As soon as microsoft announced the recall feature I was like nope this I aint consenting to that even at work. I put Nixos/Gnome on my work laptop and haven't looked back. Everytime I help someone on their windows 11 laptop it feels like a snails pace.

I wish I could convince our workplace to switch to linux. I feel like Nixos would be PERFECT for the workplace, you could just deploy like a standard config and add more apps if needed.

It would make all the software requests super easy. (given they were FOSS ofc. Even most windows apps work using Wine or Proton tbh.) I don't use any closed source apps on my laptop, but others could.

[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Where this doesn't work is the entire Finance department.

They need proper Excel, full of all the proper Excel shenanigans. Some of them will also have VBA macros and random plugins too that they rely on

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's definitely doable. There's plenty of companies and governments in Europe that have made the switch to open source away from Microsoft.

[–] linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago

This is true, here is a brief list: https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/who-uses-libreoffice/

But I'm sure it is a massive project you would need to have sufficient motivation at all levels. Not at all a trivial project.

I am curious how these changes feel on-the-ground to the affected workers who had no personal interest in linux or free software.