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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

At work, we have been using windows since I started. Last year, because of the cloud strike issues, our systems ALL went down at the same time. Even our backups did.

But our experimental Linux systems did not. And for a little while they were the only thing that worked.

Since then windows 11 has rubbed management the wrong way with the latest shutdown bug crippling a couple of servers...again.

So we got the ok to start using Linux for all new products. And management is starting to warm up to using laptops/desktops that are not windows. They are looking into Macs or Linux devices for the first time ever. So it makes sense if other entities are thinking the same thing.

Plus most programs are just web apps nowadays, at least where I work at.

Thank god. Their drivers are great for “media acceleration” but holy shit can they suck for gaming or anything intensive.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

I'm not disagreeing that their integrated GPUs aren't competitive with discrete GPUs for gaming, but I do want to point out that there is a very real market for users that basically don't play 3D games. I would bet that most business laptops never run a 3D game. They're just doing 2D compositing, scaling video, and other really lightweight stuff.

I think that the most intensive 3D thing I've ever run on the laptop I'm typing this on is maybe Google Earth.

this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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