• Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Idk man I’ve worked with hundreds of companies of all shapes and sizes as a consultant and I’ve never once seen one that used non-windows workstations with the only exception being Macs used in software development. And I’m also fairly certain that the Microsoft server market share would be much, MUCH higher if you didn’t count web servers. Web servers are the only type of server I’ve seen be Linux in the majority. Most web service companies I’ve worked with even had Windows servers working behind their Linux web servers and load balancers. Like a ratio of 10-20:1

    I say this as somebody who hates Microsoft with a passion and would rather work in an all-Linux shop but a non-Microsoft enterprise just sounds like a unicorn.

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      1 year ago

      Then, not counting when I was freelancing, I’ve found three unicorns. There were so few Windows machines around it frequently became a problem where devs or support had to have someone in accounting test something.

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        Yeah I could see it if they were an all-Mac environment in a small office that was tiny enough to not need Active Directory. Even then Mac desktops have like 20% desktop market share so that’d still be impressive that you got a Mac environment 3 times in a row.

        Linux has like 3% of the desktop market, that would be pretty close to unbelievable.