I remember back in 2017, I didn't really need any big desktop apps anymore. All I used was Salesforce, Netsuite, O365, Postman... I asked my company to just give me a Chromebook. Now I hate Chromebooks and I could very much do my job on a Linux distro mainly using web apps if needed.
My IT dept would never allow it because they can't install security software on it. Obviously I'd be pretty safe from malware, but they'd have to trust that I set up firewalls and password protection because they couldn't enforce a group policy, and their data loss prevention tools wouldn't work.
Not as "safe" as you think in that regard (I use arch btw), the reason they don't want it is because you lose control as the administrator. Once everyone is running some flavour of Linux and people report problems, guess who's gotta look at it? The IT department. It's a management nightmare compared to windows.
As arch users, we would never need the help of some low-level IT person though. That would be ridiculous.
Risk compliance forces the IT department to do certain things. Don't hate on the chill guys
Good point. The company would not only save money by not buying windows, but by not even having an IT department
Ooh can you recommend me a new distro?
Zorin Grid looks promising...whenever that will make it to market
I solved that by social engineering our IT to join my "Windows" computer into the domain, which was actually just a Windows VM. They didn't notice, and I'm free to Linux away.
I remember back in 2017, I didn't really need any big desktop apps anymore. All I used was Salesforce, Netsuite, O365, Postman... I asked my company to just give me a Chromebook. Now I hate Chromebooks and I could very much do my job on a Linux distro mainly using web apps if needed.
My IT dept would never allow it because they can't install security software on it. Obviously I'd be pretty safe from malware, but they'd have to trust that I set up firewalls and password protection because they couldn't enforce a group policy, and their data loss prevention tools wouldn't work.
Not as "safe" as you think in that regard (I use arch btw), the reason they don't want it is because you lose control as the administrator. Once everyone is running some flavour of Linux and people report problems, guess who's gotta look at it? The IT department. It's a management nightmare compared to windows.
As arch users, we would never need the help of some low-level IT person though. That would be ridiculous.
Risk compliance forces the IT department to do certain things. Don't hate on the chill guys
Good point. The company would not only save money by not buying windows, but by not even having an IT department
Ooh can you recommend me a new distro?
Zorin Grid looks promising...whenever that will make it to market
I solved that by social engineering our IT to join my "Windows" computer into the domain, which was actually just a Windows VM. They didn't notice, and I'm free to Linux away.