What do y’all think? Does switching to Linux as an entire corporation mean RedHat? Or could it be done on a distro like Debian?
As if.
Most likely they’ll go for Macs and then pikachu face when Malus does something dumb. Linux needs marketing.
Macs are expensive though. Fine for managers to use for presentations and meetings but no way you could justify that expense for a dev.
Except that every company I’ve ever worked for (6 now) in Silicon Valley DOES provide top tier MacBook pros for devs.
My current laptop is an m3 with 64gb of ram.
That’s not as much of a deciding factor as you might think. Enterprise laptops are stupidly overpriced; I wouldn’t be surprised if buying Macs didn’t actually save the average corporation money.
The real cost is in the support contract, and any CIO or senior manager knows this. The trick is finding a company to provide Mac hardware support at an enterprise level. None of this going into a Genius Bar and standing around for an hour until an employee deigns to notice you; they want a telephone number they can call, get someone 24/7 (or some proximity thereof), and get someone to come over and fix the CEO’s laptop when the battery swells up. Or, more probably, when they run a diagnostic and find out it’s bad memory, or whatever - they want to be able to swap out hardware on a call, and have a rotating upgrade plan, and all that shizzle.
The cost of the laptops is almost incidental.
Why would they?
Nope. They don’t care about privacy, as long as there’s no lawsuit.
Recall ist just on a few expensive laptops and companies generally disable stuff like this. In one company we frequently had to do the registry edit to bypass the Microsoft account. Companies in my experience used Debian or Ubuntu as Linux desktop distributions. Ubuntu because professional support and Debian (custom image) for machines that aren’t updated commonly.
Edit: explanation for this particular user is below.
I’d imagine it’s due to a lot of smaller companies/orgs that can’t afford it and have too few users or machines to justify the costs associated with management infrastructure and costs. I know a lot of companies just buy machines with Pro and have some local IT configure them manually. Pro is marginally better than Home, with regards to management capabilities, but still has some bullshit that is tough to manage consistently.
Why the hell were you doing regedits instead of just imaging with WDS/MDT or similar and joining to AD?
