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The whole juggernaut that is now Linux on Dell started as the brainchild of two core individuals, Barton George (Senior Principal Engineer) and Jared Dominguez (OS Architect and Linux Engineer).
It was their vision that began it all back in 2012. It was long hours, uncertain futures and sheer belief that people really did want Linux laptops that sustained them. Here is the untold story of how Dell gained the top spot in preinstalled Linux on laptops.
[...] This first attempt at Linux on laptops failed mainly because most non-technical users were blinded by the cheap price and didn't understand what they were actually buying.
[...] This time the duo had the right initial market. It was big, commercial web-scale operators and their developers who were crying out for a fully supported Linux laptop.
People who do technical work, like Linux. People who don't, don't.
(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Friday November 17 2017, @06:48PM (6 children)
I hope they know enough to remind the IT department who they work for.
Most of those guys are Microsoft zombies all the way down. If they are getting nervous its just a sign of how shallow their skillset is.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @07:23PM (5 children)
All depends on the company.
Some companies (names excluded to protect the guilty) of which I am personally aware are pushing hard to drop Windows in favour of OSX and/or Linux. Not because they like Apple particularly, but because the Windows 10 model is just not good news.
Pay Microsoft $Money on the regular just to keep a thing running, accept whatever updates Microsoft decides are a good idea on any given Tuesday, and hope that your machine will be available for use as opposed to spending ages in update hell when you need to do a presentation?
Yeah, no. All the nope. You only have to watch one poor sap sweating bullets while trying to run his salespitch off an iPad because his laptop is talking to its electronic gods, to realise what a stupid plan this is.
Now, I know, some Microsoft apologist is going to explain how if you're in solid with the Powers that Be, and you're a huge corporation with all sorts of techies, you can take control of that (except when you can't), and that's great if your market cap is a few billion. I'm talking about SMEs. The ones who want to get bigger.
You know, Microsoft's future big revenue stream. Or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @01:01AM (2 children)
That right there. You can change it till you cant. After the hell I've seen with my customers Windows 10 rollouts and update when they want to ignoring all of the gpos, Microsoft can go to hell. I'm actually back in school right now buffing up Linux skills cause I'm hoping to move out of the Windows world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @01:22AM (1 child)
School isn't bad.
But I can save you a lot of time, and get you off the ground faster.
First, get a copy of the UNIX System Administration Handbook. It's good stuff. Whichever edition gives you wood, I don't care.
Next, get a copy of the O'Reilly book on SED and AWK. Sounds stupid? Isn't stupid. Similarly, get one on BASH.
If you have SED, AWK, BASH, and you're not intimidated by the fact that UNIX uses a command line, you're on the way to being a rock star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @03:06AM
Good advice. School is free though though so I might as well use it.
I will look into those books. I've already started dabbling. Typing this from Opensuse right now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @09:22AM (1 child)
I wish you'd name names..
some of us are about to have Win10 imposed on us, despite our warnings, as the PHB has been told by $expensive_external_consultant 'Industry is standardising on it'
(What fscking 'Industry'? and 'where'? are the first two questions we then asked....as you can guess, we're still waiting for a response..)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @03:50PM
Yes, but I still want to have a job tomorrow.
Sucks, dunnit?