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1. Benoit (benoit@toots.benpro.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2022 08:27:24 UTC Benoit

   The slowness of Homebrew compared to any Linux distribution package manager is crazy. How people can deal with it.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2022 08:27:21 UTC Bernie

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     @benoit My company also doesn't allow Linux laptops because of some VPN bullshit 😠

     I hate using Windows, but at least alt/super and ctrl/fn aren't swapped on the keyboard, and VSCode with the SSH remote extension works great.

   • Benoit (benoit@toots.benpro.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2022 08:27:22 UTC Benoit

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     I hate so much Mac. Since my company MacBook lease will expire I wonder if I should renew with a Windows laptop instead... WSL and a Hyper-V Linux VM should be OK maybe...

     Company still does not want/allow Linux laptops.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2022 08:29:28 UTC Bernie

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     @benoit But what hardware are you gonna get if you pick Windows? We use HP laptops, and they totally suck.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2022 16:58:15 UTC Bernie

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     @benoit All big companies end up having paranoid IT departments that install tons of spyware, firewalls and malware detectors which don't ever detect real attacks, but cause more damage to productivity than doing nothing.

   • Benoit (benoit@toots.benpro.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2022 16:58:16 UTC Benoit

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     • Bernie

     @codewiz Here it is supposedly because company can't remote wipe a Linux device compared to Windows, Mac, Android and iOS.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2022 23:24:31 UTC Bernie

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     • Christian Horn

     @benoit @globalc Wouldn't disk encryption suffice? Why do we need secureboot too?

     (if you recover a laptop that was physically stolen by an attacker, you should probably consider it compromised either way)

   • Benoit (benoit@toots.benpro.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2022 23:24:34 UTC Benoit

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     • Bernie
     • Christian Horn

     @globalc @codewiz How can you remote wipe without any third app (if it exists)?

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2022 23:24:36 UTC Christian Horn

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     • Bernie

     @codewiz @benoit
     The first company I experienced was so big that I could 'fly under the radar' at that time and run Linux, $workplace[now] allows it directly.
     For Rakuten I can to some degree imagine they could have certain requirements from dealing with financial stuff directly. But running Linux with secureboot and having there userland which can remove all data once started is possible as it is on wintendo and mac.