pauses massive bong rip
Wait what this doesn’t sound like reality
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Hmmm
I use a Linux desktop for work. My employer is constantly threatening to replace it with a mac “so they can control it”. Their main control point is microsoft defender. I would rather have defender on my work machine than be forced to use a mac.
People will scoff at this but speaking from experience Defender is a very good AV if you are using MS Windows. MS has a vested interest in keeping their flagship OS safe.
Putting it on Linux though? No . Fucking. Way .
It’s one of the few things they ever got right.
E: I should also say that the release of Defender was devastating to my “house doctor” PC services side-hustle. E2 XP SP1 out also rocked my profits - that RPC vuln was a gold mine
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I was going to say something but clammed up
I wonder if there will be a libre version of this. Somehow use just the database with an open source version with no telemetry
EEE
clamav works fine on my mums laptop.
They can now ditch the dumpster fire of an OS that is Windows and lobby for the adoption of a corporate choke-point on Linux while continuing to bludgeon the remaining bits of your dignity and soverignity. At least this could be so for enterprise Linux.
And it’ll probably feel 150% faster compared to Windows. Just like Edge. lol
Mildly related: I might try to convince my job to let me use Linux come device refresh time. But we use all Microsoft stuff. Is support for Teams, OneDrive, etc reliable on Linux? I have, of course, avoided it like the plague for personal use so I don’t know. Is anyone else in a similar situation?
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I’ve used Teams on Linux and it worked fine. Granted it was basically just a wrapper for the web version, similarly with Outlook for Linux. I’ve not used One Drive on Linux, but that is what I’d be more concerned about.
I’ve used the web version of teams. Is the wrapper any different?
It’s basically chromium running the web version, but it appears as though it’s a stand alone app. At least that’s how it worked for the couple of Teams for Linux and Outlook for Linux apps I tried. I used this as part of a contract gig for about 2 years on Ubuntu machine.
Can you send files through the chat? It’s not an option in the web version.
I feel like I had posted screen shots through it a couple times. This was about 2-3 years ago and I may be misremembering. If you can’t do that via web, then I’d not expect it to work unless I was using a Teams for Linux that wasn’t a web wrapper, but I thought they all were web wrappers on Linux.
Not really imo
There’s an unofficial Teams flatpak or just use web. I use Thundebird for Outlook. For some reason Outlook refuses to work on my Firefox, so I use Vivaldi for that too. OneDrive is fucked, but there is an Rclone integration if you can convince your workplace to give you the correct API permissions. I have unfortunately not.
Maybe they’re already capitulating, accepting they couldn’t write a proper os even if their damned lives depended on it and the next windows release will be a bastardised Linux distro with wine/proton built in so the compatibility would be transparent to the user. But idk, these are only hopes, I doubt that the people at Microsoft are that self aware and, even if they are, they’ll find a thousand ways to fuck it up.
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ah the tech onion
It’ll most likely be used immutables more than anything. Which is shit for me because I fucking love Ubuntu.
See I am the key to bad things happening!!!
I switch to Ubuntu because windows slows down my ram speed and then windows goes and adds its security into it and makes it so that they’re part of the OS no matter what.
well that’s a big F you for people enjoying freedom at work by using linux instead of windows and avoiding corpo bs
