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:
I switched from
Microsoft to Linux on all servers and desktops in my
former business only to switch the desktops to Apple
products from Linux. Linux just doesn't have parody in
new application implementations on the desktop where it
mattered. And I haven't met a business owner yet who was
willing to hang out in Linux until someone got around to
making it work.
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