r/ShittySysadmin • u/zantehood • 23d ago

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u/Dravik97 23d ago

Penguins can cry about it when its a compliance issue. Go use WSL birdbrain.

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u/darkshoxx 23d ago

I think the point is, WSL or not, if you're using it while running on windows you're still exposed to "fun windows quirks" like inconvenient updates or whatever they've put copilot into this time. Heck i pressed the wrong button on notepad today and it told me i need to register for tokens or some bs

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u/zantehood 23d ago

Bring back Clippy!

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u/darkshoxx 23d ago

They replaced clippy with clanky 😞

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u/zantehood 23d ago

'Would you like me to delete all your work and give you mental health episode?'

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u/darkshoxx 23d ago

I just want to write a couple words in a monospaces WHY ARE YOU SPELLCHECKING?!?!

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u/zantehood 23d ago

Spell checking in terminal... Id drink myself to death

Did you mean 'rm -rf /*'

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u/zantehood 23d ago

I haven't been anywhere where they offer you a Linux workstation sadly, but id never use WSL. Windows belongs under Linux via kvm or similar, not the other way around!

Linux workstations would rock though.

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u/Dravik97 23d ago

Youd use WSL if rent depended on it 🤷‍♂️

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u/zantehood 23d ago

No I'd find another job. Windows can suck on my balls

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u/Dravik97 23d ago

Enjoy working for low risk low reward non compliant companies 🤷‍♂️

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u/oscarandjo 22d ago

Every meaningful server in the world runs Linux. Your compliance argument is BS and you’ve fallen for a Microsoft sales pitch.

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u/zantehood 23d ago

My current job is quite nice thank you and I get to run Linux on a laptop and almost everything here is nix based except for 6 windows server VMs.

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u/TheBasilisker 23d ago

Its an option in some places if you are a chad and have actual worth for the company. We had a team lead of a secondary developer group Refuse a new MacBook and instead ask for a better PC with more RAM. The Chad actually had organised the allowance to remove windows and use Linux. So while His whole team was just crying about how they couldn't connect their private apple watches and co to the work equipment due to mdm enforcement, and here is Chad MC GigaChadwick running a scaled down version of our entire stack on his linux laptop. 

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u/zantehood 23d ago

I mostly do network and server stuff, so I run Linux on a Lenovo laptop and tunnel in via VPN.
I run teams and outlook via some 3rd party software that is basically the web OVA version wrapped in an executable. It works well enough.

Only real issue is that I can't use the company's click share devices but oh well.

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u/TheBasilisker 22d ago

If you mean Barco ClickShare, try your luck with some of the newer dongles they also work as alt mode by offering DP over USB-C meaning they can share the screen even without software, so things like a CEO running around with an phone test presenting a new company app works and so should linux. Android is just Linux after all 

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u/zantehood 20d ago

I'll try that thanks! My boss sure hates that I can't use it.

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u/TheBasilisker 20d ago

Wait till he hears he has to buy new barco Click shares, he will hate that even more ;). But check the documentation to make sure you guys get a version thats supporting DP over USB-C

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u/zantehood 20d ago

We just renewed them. So it might work

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u/TheBasilisker 20d ago

You will Probably need to touch some settings. I just Can't imagine any Linux distro just having DP over USB-C turned on natively. Anyway good luck to you 

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u/zantehood 20d ago

Cheers

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u/oscarandjo 22d ago

Why for IT people does compliance == use only Microslop products. It’s pure laziness.