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

We use libre office

That's what shadow IT is for.

You try through the normal channels, explaining why, and if it's not enough, you find a way to still be productive DESPITE the rules of the place. Then eventually you move on to a saner place.

Current workplace: Windows computers with all development being done in Linux VMs. Management and a few younger devs are pushing for WSL, while several older devs are demanding Linux-only laptops.

Previous workplaces: One more with Windows + Linux VMs. One with Windows + X remote desktop to development servers. One with Linux PCs.

I have been exclusively applying for jobs that promised Linux development though.

I actually get forced to use a Chromebook at my current job but it doesn't really change anything since all our software is "in the cloud" accessed through Chrome.

I work at a Linux-dominant shop. Macs are somewhat common. People with Windows are kind of seen as weirdos.

We don't use office packages all that much either; more geared towards markdown and git and programming languages. The office package I use the most is Google's.

I haven't had a machine with windows on it since Windows ME. I do have some training in windows server from over a decade ago (nearing two maybe?), but I've never used the knowledge.

My computer at work runs windows. But I bought a cheap KVM switch and use my Linux laptop for all my personal web browsing and slacking off.

Luckily not. I work in the infrastructure team at a small company, everything we do is managed using Ansible (even Windows), so developing on Linux is a much nicer experience.

For communication we use Mattermost and Jitsu plus many other open source tools and services.

I'm not forced to, but occasionally my job kinda requires it so I dualboot (most of my coworkers who are on linux run a windows virtual machine when they need it).

But my previous job required windows due to all the industry specific software only working on windows. No chance of getting that to work on linux sadly. Then I just used windows at work. It's always my employer's hardware anyway and I like to keep work and free-time separate so it was ok.

We had a mix of Windows and Mac here when I joined, with development being Visual Studio-centered so Windows is what I got. I use MSYS and WSL a lot.

Now the company is moving to Mac-only, so at least I'll have a proper Unix.

I just needed a tablet for work so I got a Pixel Tab and put GrapheneOS on it. I installed the app (assuming that's what normal people/workers do) and then they told me they use the web interface as it works better.

Most workplaces have switched to the cloud model. Google workspace, MS Teams (or w/e they call their work ecosystem?), Salesforce, etc. Pretty much everything these days runs in the browser. And fortunately almost all browsers run on Linux.

That being said, yes, they may provide hardware, and expect you to use it, and they probably wouldn't allow for you to modify it.

aren't y'all forced to use Windows at work?

No.

I just don't work.

(said in jest, but more truth to that than none)

I got permission from HR and the CTO to install GNU+Linux on the work desktop.

Yep. I work for a big corporation. It's a very Windows centric shop. I think it's mostly organizational inertia at this point, although our numbers people swear by Excel, they refuse to move off of it. They've done some very elaborate work in Excel.

In the past I used CAD 95% of the time in the form of Solidworks, so I had to use windows. The other 5% of the time I used excel, so i probably could have dual booted, but I never bothered. Fortunately (kinda) my current job uses it a lot less, so I main Linux and for small prototypes I use FreeCAD on Linux and dual boot windows for the bigger projects that demand the speed in Solidworks

I use Linux on my own machine and my self host d stuff, but my wife has a Windows laptop and at work I am the windows admin. So I use all the windows there.

I've been out on medical disability since '21.

I dread this possibility when I try going back to work soon.

I knew as soon as I heard about Win10 having candy crush on the start menu that it would be the last Windows I ever installed. I had been meaning to switch for years before that (actually dabbled with a dual boot of Ubuntu back on whatever version number "Edgy Eft" was-- 5? 6?). I stayed mainly on Windows because I don't really think Wine or Proton was around yet (who knows maybe I just hadn't heard of it yet), but I did really like how non-Windows it was.

It was always in the back of my head and I knew my time was coming. Just had to get my system cleaned up (file wise) and ready to move over.

Then I ended up making a new build first so instead of moving I just never put Windows on this machine at all.

Anyway the last time I worked I still use Windows at home. So other than attempting to set up a printer on my sister's computer one time (which didn't work out because I was only there for about 20 minutes total and it had some wireless pairing to do but just wouldn't find whatever it was trying to find), I've never even touched 11. But the tiny bit I did see have me the same ick that moving from Win7 to 10 gave me. Things like how they fucked with the control panel and made a new, half-redundant settings app, had built-in cortana in the task bar, etc all bothered me.

But given that the awfulness that was 10 is longed for now, I really hope whatever job I get doesn't have to use Win11.

Yes. There's no way my work would ever change.

They are trying to embrace ai slop, they sure as hell wont go away from win 11, that would take smarts.

Plus, cad, navisworks, revit, wont run on linux.

My company is semi-large. Big enough that their IT dept semi-supports linux. My manager didn't know about it, but after being at the company for a year using windows, I finally found the right desktop team that hooked me up with a massive document on how to install linux following corporate policy. So, now I'm rocking Ubuntu. Not in my top 10 choices, but a far cry better than the Windows 11 rollout the company warned us of.

I was handed a Windows laptop. I used it for a few weeks and then quietly just upgraded to a personal Linux machine. It's been six months and no one cares. Fine with me.

Luckily we have business assigned Windows laptops and most of my work is done through web apps so mainly I have Teams, Outlook and Edge open. That way I get to have minimal Windows annoyances.

Right now I work as an administrator for a few Red Hat servers. Notebooks are still Windows though.

I use Linux at work, but need a VM with Win for Office. And no, LibreOffice is not an option.

As I build my business. All systems will work natively on Linux. So people can use that if they wish.

If there is something that specific to windows, then I do not use it.

I’ve never had to use windows at work except for some extremely rare moments, such as debugging a customer issue.

Always had a choice between Linux and macOS, and even if it was a requirement, I’d just become the change I wanted to see, show them all the money they could be saving and improve security demonstrably.

We are, and in a way it's hilarious. I get to experience both worlds.

Yeah we have to use windows at work but we are trying to move software development to support Linux. It's just a bit hard when you have a monster codebase, bigger than the Linux kernel or Firefox, built using all Microsoft products. That being said, dotnet now supporting Linux is a huge positive

I ran Linux at work up until recently where I found out that they are in the process of changing the network setup, so only systems with a valid certificate can access the network. And they have no plan to support Linux in that setup. So I was kind of forced to switch back to Windows, because my work requires that I can access the local network.

Other than that, I used Linux in a Microsoft Entra/Intune environment with Edge, Teams and Office 365 for a couple of years.

I run teams and Outlook using versions in electron wrappers. For one drive I have to use the web interface to get to the shared storage because our folks don't know how to set it up and I don't care enough to figure it out for them.

I have one application that I really need to use that I still can't get working in Linux but I'm still trying.

If my company wants to use windows and pay for m$ services and deal with copilot. Who am I to stop them? The guys securing the desktop images need jobs too.

use what the bossman wants at work.

Yeah.
Thank the gods for Modern Windows Terminal, VSCode and PowerShell.
Now if only someone at Microsoft makes the Virtual Desktop Switching not be slow as balls and makes the Tabs in Explorer suck less, it starts to resemble a sane environment.

When in the office, yes. But I use my desktop when working from home. The annoying part I have spent like two minutes trying to solve by installing Vivaldi, is Teams, 'cause now my picture is squashed for some reason on calls, while working perfectly in OBS and elsewhere.

I have the option to use WSL at work, it's not perfect but it's so much better than having to code on a glorified web browser.

Linux is also awesome at work, if your workflow allows for it. Unfortunately, I cannot see the CAD/CAE world switching over (or rather bizarrely, back) to Linux anytime soon.

I've had to kind of strongarm employers a couple times to provide me with a non-Macbook so I could put Linux on it. But usually in my job I can choose what I run.