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Why aren't you discussing this with your leadership?
If you're doing Linux dev work, there must be a reason your team is using Windows, and they have process around dev tasks. And your team must have process/tools for what your role does.
This seems very much like an internal discussion around what your team does.
+1 for bringing it up as serious discussion.
The last time I had to ask permission for something like this, the issue turned out to be simply that the IT staff wasn't trained in Linux and therefore couldn't support it. I was more than capable of administering my own Linux box and ensuring that it wouldn't become a risk to our company network, so we agreed that I would do that.
It was a win-win result: I had the tool I needed to be most productive, and IT had fewer machines to support.
Sounds more like a win-lin result to me.
I see, I gotta talk about it with the leadership. For context, my work is just a small university lab (5~20 people), so I expect it to be less organized.
Actually, it's pretty surprising to me that a small university lab is forcing a specific version of a specific OS on you.
It is not forcing per se, it's just that the computer comes with Windows pre-installed, and I am worried that changing it will cause more issues than it's worth.
What are you doing? Why do you need Linux at all?
I seem to have irrational hatred on Windows.
Besides, there is programming work which is conducted entirely on linux server.
I tried at my job. Basically the IT guys are too incompetent and don't know how to manage Linux computers.
But the company had to be able to have control over what users install, they must also have a VPN and proxy set up in a way that they can monitor what employees do or what they browse. They currently use Zscaler.
Yeah that's a good point.
The thing with our organization is they selected technologies that are simply not compatible with Linux. Even using WSL is complicated.
It's dumb because the vast majority of the tasks I do and the technologies I work with is almost exclusively made to work on Linux or requires a Linux VM to work.