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Linux is awesome at home, but aren't y'all forced to use Windows at work? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I'm liking the recent posts about switching to Linux. Some of my home machines run Linux, and I ran it on my main laptop for years (currently on Win10, preparing to return to Linux again).

That's all fine and dandy but at work I am forced to use Windows, Office, Teams, and all that. Not just because of corpo policies but also because of the apps we need to use.

Even if it weren't for those applications, or those policies, or if Wine was a serious option, I would still need to work with hundreds of other people in a Windows world, live-sharing Excel and so on.

I'm guessing that most people here just accept it. We use what we want at home, and use what the bossman wants at work. Or we're lucky to work in a shop that allows Linux. Right?

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[-] socsa@piefed.social 34 points 1 day ago

No. We are a proper engineering company.

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 7 points 18 hours ago

Lol what kind of engineering? Because it probably isn't mechanical, electronics, or civil because most of those programs don't work in Linux 😂

I have dreams of KiCAD and FreeCAD becoming good enough to be used a lot in industry and kiCAD is nearly there, but missing tons of productivity and collaboration features, but altium is still pretty ubiquitous, spaghetti code garbage that it can be.

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 6 points 18 hours ago

So not an industrial automation engineer. Nothing but windows software.

Ignition for scada works on Linux, but nothing else does.

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