I work in a corporation with an IT-department that is all in on whatever Microsoft is offering. My team has for some time gotten more and more autonomy in tooling as IT is overloaded and forced to relinquish some control, but we still rely on them for supplying compliant machines that have access to our resources.

I requested a Linux machine just over 5 months ago, and I finally got it this week. It is running Ubuntu with GNOME, not my first choice, but the only thing that is Microsoft Intune compliant as far as I know.

So far it is such a relief. A better specced machine with less bloat running on it. It should be far between any OOM-issue I get now… Slightly annoying having to use Edge for any service requiring corporate SSO, but I’ll swallow that pill…

  • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Ubuntu, GNOME, Edge… I mean, it’s technically an upgrade. Just a disappointing one.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      14 days ago

      Someone has obviously not been forced to work with Windows 11? :p

      It’s a massive upgrade and miles better than what I came from, and while not ideal, I’m certainly not letting perfect be the enemy of the good here. Edge is just for those MS365 apps I need to work with once in a while (and a couple of other services that rely on SSO, most annoyingly GitHub). I’ll live

      Also, I’m a KDE person, but so far I don’t hate GNOME.

    • Caveman@lemmy.world
      2·
      14 days ago

      I’ve been using KDE for 6 years now and Gnome is not my vibe but I still consider it a massive upgrade that’s not disappointing.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    14 days ago

    I am terribly jealous. Congratulations on finding a company with a (somewhat) sensible IT policy.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      14 days ago

      Yeah, but it has also required many hard fought battles internally, and I can be happy with my coworkers and team lead for taking the charge in several of those. It helps having had multiple examples of their policies getting in the way of getting stuff done, and that we are able to accomplish our jobs when we get our way.

      Worst part is that we’re not a terribly big company - but the IT department can still make it feel like I work in a multinational megacorp some times. I can only imagine what it is to actually work in one of those…

  • yaroto98@lemmy.world
    5·
    14 days ago

    I’m in a similar boat, except I had to white-knuckle the install myself. White-knuckle, because I had to set up unique to my laptop certs beforehand to get on the corporate VPN. And if it disn’t work, I’d be off the VPN unable to connect (I work remote). Got it working, but, fun fact, my ubuntu laptop is running Microsoft Defender! (per requirements) I feel super protected.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlOP
      6·
      14 days ago

      Yes. Using it through Edge with no issues so far.

      Internal team communication goes outside of Teams though (we self-host Mattermost).

      ETA: No more issues than the native app under Win11, I meant to say.

      • kaiserZak@lemmy.world
        21·
        14 days ago

        I use flatpak version of teams-for-linux which is propably just electron app, but it works surprisingly well, no issues and almost always up to date :)

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
    2·
    14 days ago

    Sadly my current work is 100% windows only. My previous job was all linux, which I really, really miss.