I would tend to disagree here.  As a business owner for a few years and a full-time linux user for 10+ years, I've really not had any reason still to go back.  I do my own accounting and time management with Freshbooks/Xero, payroll with Gusto, LibreOffice for all docs, master pdf editor for editing pdf's (go figure), Gimp for images, Dialpad for voice/acd/ivr, UberConference for audio conferencing/collaboration, and gapps for most everything else.

The only things I do in windoze is customers that insist on using crappy conferencing like webex/gotomeeting, visio for network/application design documents, and that's it.  I call it my visio hypervisor as I usually just run vbox windoze in seamless, just pretending windoze isn't there.

Linux is fairly viable for enterprise use imho too, probably more so than the idiots that would be forced to use them.  I had a short stint returning to an old employer here, where like most, run windoze for everything desktop-y, and I ran linux on my laptop there mostly OK.  Worst issues for me were generally using pam-mount for automounting windoze dfs shares (homedirs, doc dirs, etc), wired/wireless network transition with said mounting (kernel freaking out when cifs would disconnect shares), and the fact companies still insist on using crappy products like office365 that don't work for anything but windoze.  I actually began organizing internally other stealth linux users (tampering with the os there was a fireable offense, f-em) and documenting howto's in conflucence to function in the wild.

Macs in the enterprise were worse.  There I had been in charge of wireless for a bit, so I had to test macs and was given one to use as all the new management cronies flooding in insisted on them.  Nothing "just worked", especially when you start talking AD integration, certs, wireless, etc, and macs quickly became the bain of my existence there to support on the network.  Apple was useless to support any real enterprise integration as well.  I unaffectionately referred to them as shiny speak-n-spells jammed into the enterprise world.

Aside from that, Outlook/Lync products were garbage for mac, which M$ execs themselves told us it would never not suck, as it might create competition, otherwise I just used Libre to replace crappy word/excel.  Every application I needed to function cost something, and usually absurdly priced.  I am not used to having to pay for anything having used linux for so long, and just nauseated me with a constant up sell.  Top off that their hardware is usually older/slower anyways, I really didn't see why people like them.  It genuinely frustrated me to use that it just sat in my desk.

So yeah, I call bullocks on the mac for anything other than a status symbol, but whatever floats your boat.

-mb


On 08/24/2016 05:24 PM, James Dugger wrote: