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linux as business/ company pc?
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It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. And forgiveness meaning "I didn't realize I couldn't do that"
This is horrific advice in this context.
As much as I would love to turf windows and jump to Linux I know that internal policy is you will be fired because you are breaking company policy and threatening company certifications and compliance.
Thanks for balancing the comment. You're correct. For many, if not most jobs, my comment isn't good advice.
But if you ask, they will say no. If you do it anyway they could appreciate it. At my current and former jobs it ranges anywhere from a slap on the wrist to praise for creative use of resources.
I got caught by IT running Linux on four 15 year old optiplexes I found. They were unhappy, but were floored that they were running so well, and the fact that I was making use of something that was effectively trash. They let me keep them.
I was offering that perspective.
That strongly depends on the job. If the company has to follow regulations to meet some security posture, wiping the OS (and all the security tools and configuration set up by IT) to put your own favored OS without matching the security requirements could wind up with you getting fired.
Oh yea for sure. There is a huge difference between a startup and a defense contractor.