Yep, IT worker here and all of our client machines run Windows 11 with all the usual Office 365 stuff. Most of our servers run Windows too. A small amount of servers are Linux-based, usually VMware hosts and some virtual appliances. Broadcom is fucking us over a barrel on VMware licensing/support but the inertia is so strong that the powers that be won't even entertain migrating to something like Proxmox. Something something Gartner top quadrant...

Work provides us relatively decent Dell Latitude hardware but we are stuck using the corporate Windows 11 image.

If they'd let us bring our own tech I'd be on a Thinkpad running Fedora and just use remote desktop to access all of the Microsoft shit.

My biggest issue with Windows is the lack of control I have of the actual hardware I own. I don't own my work computer to begin with nor am I entitled to have full control over it so it doesn't matter.

I do use WSL, but mainly because I'm more familiar with Bash than Powershell and don't have to constantly figure out how Powershell does things I already know how to do.

It's the same reason I have no problem using my company's OneDrive for work files when I go out of my way to avoid putting any of my personal data on the cloud. It's their data and they don't care so I don't care either.

It's also nice because I can set up a Linux-only file server at home with things like SSHFS and the Windows computer can't even see it since it has no SSH access doesn't even support the network share protocol. If I had an SMB share it would show up on my work computer because it autodetects it.

I'll be the black sheep and say I actually quite like using windows at work. Not really enjoyment per say, but the software suites and accessibility is different in the business world, which is primarily built around Microsoft. Not that you can't do most of it with Linux and that Linux would do some things better, but I don't really have an issue with most of it.

Would I choose it for my home use? Definitely not. But I'd think that fitting a Linux cog in a Microsoft machine would create more negatives than positives. This is all subjective of course, and depending on you job, company, industry this could wildly not apply.

Don't get me wrong, I hate Microsoft. But their ecosystem isn't all bad.

The last two corporate jobs I had I was able to use Linux. I did have to dual boot but that's easy. Currently I run my own company and I have one machine that runs windows for people that remote in and need to use my PC for terminal access etc. that machine basically just sits there and doesn't get used for anything except for that stuff. All my other computers I run at home are all Linux based.

I was managing with virtual box on the work machine. But following win 11 the performance under hyper v is so appalling that I gave up.
In the end my solution is a 2nd hand ThinkPad off FB marketplace that I use for work.
Browser apps cover all the word/excel/outlook/teams requirements.
Winboat is covering the very limited set of other apps.
Everything else I do works better in Linux, or at least better on a device I have admin for.
Yes I am out of pocket but not significantly, and not having to deal with windows has been completely worth it for me.

I count myself as one of the lucky ones that isn't forced to use Windows by the company I work for. We even have our internal (ubuntu-based) distro, and despite being passable proficient with Linux, I can count on having support if I ever need it.

That’s all fine and dandy but at work I am forced to use Windows, Office, Teams, and all that.

Yeah, me too. But all of those (except Windows of course) can be used on the browser

At my work they use Mac OS. However before I started the job I said, that it's a requirement for me to work with Linux. So I'm the only one with a proper OS in the company now 🥴

But jokes aside, it's not that bad to work on different OSes. Nowadays everything runs in a Docker container. Ok, it's a bit slow for the Apple users, but that's not my problem 🤷‍♂️

Yes, but it's okay. I have low expectations.

I'm lucky that I work from home (have done since before the pandemic) and pretty much all my work is done in a browser, and my bosses don't care what I use as long as the work gets done. So I just work on Fedora on my regular desktop.

Yeah. After a period of unemployment and having used windows 10 at my previous job I came home after using 11 and told my wife "damn bitch you live like this?" about it

I believe to be the only one running linux on the work laptop at the company. I told them I'd like to use linux when I applied and they told me "fine, but you will have to install and maintain it on your own, we have no support personal for this".

I installed arch linux and have been happy for years. MS Teams runs in my browser.

I'm a teacher and I make Linux work for me. Open doc formats get converted to pdf for the shitty windows 7 running the printer in the printing room, and the Android/Windows only app for communications I just run on my phone. PPTs run fine. When there was a problem with the projector, 'IT guy' went to my laptop, got confused (it's Gnome), I told him not to interfere with it because it's Linux. He proceeded to say 'Ah, not working because it's not windows.' Later that day he actually came to fix the cable to the projector.

Full Linux shop here. Love it...

Desktops, laptops, servers.

For those rare customer teams meets, we just do it in the browser.

my employer using windows on their machine is their problem. i could be faster via bash in several instances, wouldn't have to wait ours for updates to be done ... but i get to drink tea and listen to complaints about outlook from my co-workers.

it's okay. i get paid.

Nope, software dev here.... work gave me a budget, told me to pick a computer and I put Linux on it. My Boss (the VP of Engineering) also runs Linux. We're a small company and some people do run Windows but we have google workspace so there hasn't been anything I've needed windows for.

I am an electrical engineer, so even beyond Teams and MS Office, several of the engineering and CAD programs we use are not supported or only partially supported on Linux (i.e. hardcoded to only work on a specific version of Ubuntu, lol).

I have spoken to our IT guy, and he would be completely on board with using Linux, but even he acknowledges that there is no reasonable path to us doing so, so I just sort of accept it.

Nah, I'm free to do what I want with my laptop as long as I can do the work. I work in IT and everyone uses windows. But so far so good. Would like to get outlook classic to run on Linux though

I recently got my Linux-laptop in a heavy MS-based company. It is enrolled via Intune and I can access all company resourcws an MS365 apps through Edge.

Apart from having to use Edge for all of that, it is a great experience compared to what I am used to.

But it took a while and a lot of complaining about being allowed to use more appropriate tools for our job. But the bottom line is: ask for it. Tell them why you need it. When they say no, try again later, document why your current setup fails and why getting a Linux-machinee would work. Maybe you will succeed. IT here has gone from "we don't use open source" (actual quote) to giving us Linux-laptops and setting up Linux-servers on OT. They grow from this also.

Office 365 and teams work fine on Linux in Chrome or Firefox, including voice calls, video calls and screen sharing, and notifications with pop-ups and sounds.

Excel, in particular, is 100% inside Office365 in the browser when I have to interact with it. In the past, I have created Excel files in LibreOfffice and uploaded them to Office365 to convert. Though I haven't been tempted to do so in a few years.

Most of my coworkers are not aware that I run Linux at work. My boss knows and doesn't care. My peers are just surprised when I mention it, because I use the same tools without issue.

Zoom works great on Linux, as well, both in bowers and as the native app. Many corporate VPNs are compiant with open standards, and so don't even require any additional install. Cisco's isn't made right, but they provide a Linux client that works fine.

Slack works fine in browser, including full first class notifications. I haven't sought out a dedicated client app, but I recall having some options.

DropBox and Google have particularly decent Linux client applications, and of course, fully functional web tools.

There's also some excellent ways to run Android apps nearly seemlessly inside an Android emulator of Linux. In theory, I could resort to those, but I haven't because everything I need works in a web browser now.

I've heard that the two glaring exceptions are AutoCad and Adobe Creative Suite. I understand that neither works on Linux or in a browser (per other threads on Lemmy).

Oh yeah, and Linux has more and better ways to produce nice PDFs than Windows does, and of course reads them without issue

Oh, and yes, mandatory compliance stuff like antivirus tools and CrowdStrike also have compliant options for Linux. Some of the really shitty spyware level invasive stuff probably hasn't been ported to Linux, but the "keep me virus free" stuff seems pretty available - because they want to sell copies for Linux servers.

Edit: If this seems needlessly thorough, it is because I worked to independently verify all of these details before my upgrade. I figure my notes might help someone making the case to switch, or just researching whether they need to not switch.

Nope. Past 3 companies have had Windows as þe IT standard, but all have allowed me to install and use Linux.

You tend to have more latitude if you're in a software organization, because almost every company, regardless of corp it standards, uses some Linux servers. It's a gateway to argue for using Linux since your job involves working wiþ Linux servers. Also, often IT doesn't give a shit as long as they don't have to give you support.

As someone who works in software, I've been using macs at work for more than a decade. One job had Linux machines. One place had windows for developers and it was a shit show.

Apple isn't amazing but at least the terminal is sensible.

I am very lucky that I never had to use windows at any full time job, nor even in full time education post 18.

Thankfully no microsoft, but I do have to use google workspace.

at least i can sandbox it to a web browser? small wins...

Company went "here's your budget for ordering a laptop. Put on it whatever you want", and so there's NixOS running on it :)

(To be fair though: small-ish, tech focused company)

I have to use Windows at work, but I can use WSL on the developer laptop. Also I develop for/on Linux servers via ssh, so it's good that I know Linux from home.

In the past I mostly got to persuade them to allow me to use Linux. In one, however, they got me a macbook, so I resorted to living in the VM most of the time. I had to use xcode for some of the Mac development, but for the rest, I was masochistic enough to be able to withstand living in a VM. Though that mac was Intel based, now ARM ones would likely not perform as good to justify it. Asahi doesn't work on newer ARM Macs AFAIK.

The last several places I worked gave me a choice between Windows and Mac OS, so I picked Mac OS.

Forced to use Windows 11 at work, my brand new laptop with 32GB or RAM takes 10 to 20 seconds to open the explorer or view an image. It's horrendous. It's absolutely not because of the application I need to use because I literally do EVERYTHING in Google Chrome. This year IT uninstalled Excel and Word from our laptops because we are supposed to do all the work in Google Drive. Updates always need minimum 2 reboots and you need to attend to the computer because rebooting will get stuck on the encryption password. I hate it, but it always been like that so...

I use Linux on my work computer

Im self employed so I can use what I want.

I have a few assisstants who use win 11.

My work computer runs Windows 11, but our IT guys have turned off pretty much all the annoying bits, so it works pretty OK.

I have to use 11 at work. In a way I'm thankful because I've been exposed to how shit it is and it makes me appreciate Linux more. I can't see them changing anytime soon as it seems like we're getting more dependent on their shit.

I used to work as a software dev before mass layoffs got me. Our work was technical enough that most of us used Linux to the point that finding a Windows user to test things was a real problem.

In my previous job and my job at the bike shop, yes. But I don't really care, its issues aren't my problem.