I work in a corporation with an IT-department that is all in on whatever Microsoft is offering. My team has for some time gotten more and more autonomy in tooling as IT is overloaded and forced to relinquish some control, but we still rely on them for supplying compliant machines that have access to our resources.
I requested a Linux machine just over 5 months ago, and I finally got it this week. It is running Ubuntu with GNOME, not my first choice, but the only thing that is Microsoft Intune compliant as far as I know.
So far it is such a relief. A better specced machine with less bloat running on it. It should be far between any OOM-issue I get now… Slightly annoying having to use Edge for any service requiring corporate SSO, but I’ll swallow that pill…
I am terribly jealous. Congratulations on finding a company with a (somewhat) sensible IT policy.
Yeah, but it has also required many hard fought battles internally, and I can be happy with my coworkers and team lead for taking the charge in several of those. It helps having had multiple examples of their policies getting in the way of getting stuff done, and that we are able to accomplish our jobs when we get our way.
Worst part is that we’re not a terribly big company - but the IT department can still make it feel like I work in a multinational megacorp some times. I can only imagine what it is to actually work in one of those…
… it’s a policy driven hell