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?

  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    15 hours ago

    Mac at work. Yabai+sketchybar is no i3wm replacement, but it works ok.

    My .zshrc is basically the same as I use on my personal computers, and aside from a few coreutils differences it…kinda just works. I have apt aliased to brew so I can feel more at home.

    Stock terminal works fine—I use xterm on Linux, so I’m used to relying on tmux for nice features anyway.

    Basically, I miss the window manager, but practically speaking that’s a about it. (I obviously have xscreensaver installed!)