All organisations with more than 1,000 people should have to split their desktop and server fleet equally between Linux, Windows, any BSD you like, and macOS. This would improve organisational reslience and maintain a need for IT staff.
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Our company of 2300+ is actually 50/50 Mac/PC. We (IT) prefer folks get Macs they last longer and we have less issues both hardware and software wise. Just say’n.
Used to work in a FTSE 100 company. Almost all the execs used them. Those that didn’t used iPads. Neither were remotely suitable for business use but it made them feel important.
I’m not convinced there’s any business need for a Mac, but everywhere I’ve worked has had maybe 5-10% Macs. Mostly Marketing and execs. They take about 25% of the IT support resource.
Mac users, in general, have always been a pain, they don't speak the same language. Mind you, the current 20-somethings are as bad, get confused if you call a folder a directory.
One thing that Linux acolytes often fail to understand is that what works for them as a single, home user doesn't work at enterprise scale. The software being used at a 1000+ employee business is very, very rarely written for anything other than Windows.
Modern software needs a browser. The only applications requiring a windows client are legacy which many companies have shifted into RDS so they can give staff Chromebooks.
We trialled Chromebooks at work a few years back. The absolute number one complaint from the testers was about the lack of a caps lock key. So, so many of them didn't know how to type a capital letter without it. When we showed them the shift key it was like witchcraft to them.
Obviously it depends on the industry, but I work in housing and everyone is still running lots of software on Windows desktops (or via RDS) because that's all the suppliers are offering. There's a move to making it SaaS but it's very slow going, probably another 5-10 years until it's all cloud-y.
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Fucks sake
iPhones are mostly picked by marketing, everyone else chooses the pixel.
My £150 Chromebook can also do that....
Modern software needs a browser. The only applications requiring a windows client are legacy which many companies have shifted into RDS so they can give staff Chromebooks.