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Being Forced to Say Goodbye (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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My company's buyout has been completed, and their IT team is in the final stages of gutting our old systems and moving us on to all their infra.

Sadly, this means all my Linux and FOSS implementations I've worked on for the last year are getting shut down and ripped out this week. (They're all 100% Microsoft and proprietary junk at the new company)

I know it's dumb to feel sad about computers and software getting shut down, but it feels sucky to see all my hours of hard work getting trashed without a second thought.

That's the nature of a corpo takeover though. Just wanted to let off some steam to some folks here who I know would understand.

FOSS forever! ✊

Edit: Thanks, everybody so much for the kind words and advice!

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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Got everything saved already. They are wiping my Linux laptop Wednesday and putting Windows 11 on it. Looking forward to my sleek and fast Thinkpad to get much slower and clunkier. 😮‍💨

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh buddy they’re wiping your laptop that sucks. Figured you were talking like servers and stuff (which is still bad.) if it’s company issued you don’t have a choice, but do they allow personal hardware to be connected? If so I’d just go buy my own thinkpad.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it really bites. And no, they don't allow anything personal other than phones.

At least I get to use the Thinkpad, even if it is gimped with Windows. They initially weren't even going to allow that, because their company deploys only HP laptops.

But I made a strong and slightly pathetic case to the manager and he relented. Angry that I had to kiss the ring, but right now I need the money, and I really hated their clunky HP laptops.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you run WSL or whatever it’s called? I se to remember some coworkers getting a Linux shell on windows. Of course that still leaves you with the shitty windows UI.

[–] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

My last job was Windows desktop, so I installed vmware and ran Linux in fullscreen mode.