I worked for a small third party AT&T chop shop once. I pulled all sorts of crap there. I remember they gave me a Dell that annoyed me in just the right way that I nuked it and installed Linux.
Others saw and word spread and they fucking hated windows 11 too. Nothing happened right away, it’s was kind of like a freak show thing. “The nonconformist found an out”. Then the network engineer said “fuck this. What distro are the kids into these days?” and nuked his dell and now we only had one person running bare metal windows left in IT. And he was annoyed he had problems when we didn’t.
So he issued a new decree that we had to use the same software our customers were using. We have to “dogfood our own solutions.” We wiped and moved back, begrudgingly.
He wasn’t wrong but that Dell ran like shit with windows. We had a BYOD policy at work that nobody actually did anything with but was technically there though.
So I bought a surface pro X second hand off eBay and brought it in.
As bad a machine as that was, it was bad in predictable and therefor manageable ways. And boss looked over, sighed, and just let me have the win.
Until big boss saw I had something shinier than he did. And they were NOT going to give him something like that as they did NOT want to provide support for it. So the X was banned from the office.
I worked for a small third party AT&T chop shop once. I pulled all sorts of crap there. I remember they gave me a Dell that annoyed me in just the right way that I nuked it and installed Linux.
Others saw and word spread and they fucking hated windows 11 too. Nothing happened right away, it’s was kind of like a freak show thing. “The nonconformist found an out”. Then the network engineer said “fuck this. What distro are the kids into these days?” and nuked his dell and now we only had one person running bare metal windows left in IT. And he was annoyed he had problems when we didn’t.
So he issued a new decree that we had to use the same software our customers were using. We have to “dogfood our own solutions.” We wiped and moved back, begrudgingly.
He wasn’t wrong but that Dell ran like shit with windows. We had a BYOD policy at work that nobody actually did anything with but was technically there though.
So I bought a surface pro X second hand off eBay and brought it in.
As bad a machine as that was, it was bad in predictable and therefor manageable ways. And boss looked over, sighed, and just let me have the win.
Until big boss saw I had something shinier than he did. And they were NOT going to give him something like that as they did NOT want to provide support for it. So the X was banned from the office.