Subj : Re: Community
To   : Tracker1
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Oct 18 2022 13:40:05

 Tr>  > Linux does seem much more prevalent in tech circles.  I work in
 Tr>  > the pharmaceutical business, and everything there is straight
 Tr>  > down the line standard "enterprise" solutions.  Doesn't make for
 Tr>  > a good computing environment.
 Tr> 
 Tr> WSL+Docker does at least make it more tolerable... if less than ideal.
 Tr> -- 

If you have permission to install it.  My workstation is pretty locked, so I can get away with a "portable" install of Emacs, and that is about it.  It was a little better when we had Macs, as I could at least make use of Unix tooling.  But with Windows, it really does feel horribly limited.  Worse is the choice of technologies.  Teams AND OneDrive AND SharePoint AND some other cloud based file storage for files.  Having to open PDF's which are scans of printed pages in order to get information (no real databases), Excel for databases, where there is more focus on formatting it according to our "branding" than making the data accessible.

And this isn't a small company either.

I can understand why people who understand computing would use Linux, but in industries which are populated by people who have little to no interest in IT, things take a very different turn, and the systems are pretty lousy.

Oh, and we're getting an electronic all singing, all dancing, expensive enterprise solution, which I suspect from what I've heard, will just be used like an overpriced SharePoint document management system and JIRA.

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