I work in a corporation with an IT-department that is all in on whatever Microsoft is offering. My team has for some time gotten more and more autonomy in tooling as IT is overloaded and forced to relinquish some control, but we still rely on them for supplying compliant machines that have access to our resources.
I requested a Linux machine just over 5 months ago, and I finally got it this week. It is running Ubuntu with GNOME, not my first choice, but the only thing that is Microsoft Intune compliant as far as I know.
So far it is such a relief. A better specced machine with less bloat running on it. It should be far between any OOM-issue I get now… Slightly annoying having to use Edge for any service requiring corporate SSO, but I’ll swallow that pill…
Ubuntu, GNOME, Edge… I mean, it’s technically an upgrade. Just a disappointing one.
Someone has obviously not been forced to work with Windows 11? :p
It’s a massive upgrade and miles better than what I came from, and while not ideal, I’m certainly not letting perfect be the enemy of the good here. Edge is just for those MS365 apps I need to work with once in a while (and a couple of other services that rely on SSO, most annoyingly GitHub). I’ll live
Also, I’m a KDE person, but so far I don’t hate GNOME.
I’ve been using KDE for 6 years now and Gnome is not my vibe but I still consider it a massive upgrade that’s not disappointing.