Linux

Local here. We all use Linux desktop. Libre office. Gimp. Krita. Inkscape. Vscodium. Thunderbird. Sublime. Etc etc. We have a programmer who favoured Windows. We finally converted him. Now we only have the mac laptop to deal with having to do osx builds.

We have both Linux and Windows machines in my team. We do all the work in Linux, and register hours in Windows. We also all have iPhones that we only use for 2FA.

Where I work,~2,000 employees and contractors, I'm almost certain I'm the one person using Linux (Fedora) and refusing to use Windows (so they deployed a cloud Windows 365 instance for me to have access to the in-house platform).

I'm blessed to hold a position for which the company would have a really hard time replacing me, I think that's why they haven't booted me (chances are they will at some point, but I don't care anymore).

It still blows my mind how the IT team tries to justify being locked into Microsoft, and then telling me I could potentially become a point of vulnerability, when my system is easily the most secure in the whole company and my habits make for little to no possibility of ever exposing anything outside of the company.

Hostpoint, one of the largest hosting companies of Switzerland uses Linux Desktop Clients.

In 3 of my last 4 jobs as developer I could use Linux as desktop. The 1 exception did not have the admins that could think ahead of what Amazon or Microsoft has told them. They where also struggling with other 'modern' ideas.

Maybe a German thing, but Linux for a dev is quite common here.

In my team we use both Linux and Mac (I don’t want to disclose my company, but it’s in Sweden). IT isn’t entirely happy about some of us using Linux because it’s more difficult for them to administer the computers (i.e. install spyware), but so far they’ve been unsuccessful in making us switch.

In my experience, the larger the company, the more likely they are to force you to use Windows. The smaller companies will be more relaxed about the whole thing.

The largest company I've worked for that allows Linux had a staff count of hundreds of engineers and hundreds more non-nerds. In their case though, the laptops were crippled with Crowdstrike and Kollide and while the tech team was working hard to support us, we were always aware that we made up around 1% of the machines they manage and represented a big chunk of their headaches.

The response to this you usually hear (from me even) is that "I don't need support, I know what I'm doing". Which is probably true, but the vast majority of problems is in dealing with access to proprietary systems, failures from Crowdstrike or complaints about kernel versions etc.

TL;DR: work at a small company (<100 staff) and they'll probably leave you alone. Go bigger and you'll be stuck fighting IT in one way or another.

Yes. At one employer, we had an entire domain in our AD forest that was Red Hat / CentOS / Ubuntu workstations for the developers.

we can decide ourselfs if we want mac, windows or ubuntu (no other distro allowed). Our code runs in docker containers and except for the IDE our tools are web-based for the most part anyway, so it doesn't really matter which OS you use. though I heard there were quite a few issues with docker and Mac when the first M-chip Macs were used. it's a software company in Germany with ~150 people.

I work for a major network infrastructure company. We can choose from Windows, macOS, or Ubuntu for work laptops. I chose macOS, but I'm probably going to switch to Ubuntu with my next laptop refresh since a lot of our internal tooling works better on Linux.

When I was working for Averitt Express, a trucking company out of Cookeville, Tn, our yard trucks had computers in them (for yard and dock management) that ran Ubuntu. This was 10ish years ago.

I Sysadmin in education here in Brisbane. Half our server stack is Linux on a Nutanix hypervisor. I do all my work from Linux, my junior admin recently moved his workstation to Fedora KDE, I use Kinoite.

The student and staff devices are 95% Windows, manager doesn't care what we use to administer. Officially we're a "Microsoft School"

I work for a web host (UK based). We're entirely WFH so as long as you can support it yourself you can use it. They don't care what Distro we use.

google and nvidia both do.

i don't know if it's still true; but they gave their employees 2 computers where their workstations were usually linux and their laptops were either linux or mac if they were engineers. it was their choice to decide what to get; but they usually went along with whatever their peers where using; except for non-engineers who always wanted macs no matter what, even if their windows machines were newer and better by miles.

My work use it in a limited capacity.

We primarily use Windows but some also use MacOS and some use our internal Linux spin off Ubuntu. With some internal tools and all that.

The Linux users are primarily developers and a few Linux admins and I'm pretty sure the Linux platform is maintained by a developer.

Can't say what company, but a large company that provides education tools has been looking into ways to be less dependent on Microsoft. They have some of their employees currently using Linux computers right now. Some employees in the IT department still need a second Windows computer.

The vast majority of devs at my company uses desktop Linux (Ubuntu LTS). Though admittedly our IT department would prefer if we all used Windows.

I used Linux for work. It was fine until we migrated to O365 from workspace. I've found enough workarounds that no one complains.

Lots of arcade games and other amusement machines made in the last twenty years run on desktop Linux.

Incredible Technologies games, Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix Big Buck Hunter Pro, Arachnid dartboards, and TouchTunes jukeboxes off the top of my head.

Every company I've ever worked for

Lowe’s uses a customized Linux distro for their department terminal computers. Most of what you do is in browser or terminal applications, if genesis is still in use.

Is there a law that prevents employers from docking someone's salary by the expensive proprietary software you opt-in for, instead of using a free option?

My last 3 employers have let me use Linux on my work laptop, I've gone with Ubuntu each time, it has worked really well for me. I'm lucky that I get to use Linux since I work as a web dev, it often matches production more easily that way.

Many such companies

Current company's full windows, I use both as does the software I maintain. Retail/POS software.

Previous company used linux for trading. Fintech.

Previous previous used linux solely (well, my team did): Ubuntu for devs, product ran on modified Slackware. Large scale retail/POS.

Opengear in Brisbane; development teams often use Linux.

Some public places like libraries here in Denmark use Linux on their computers, but I don't know to what extent.

I'm a contractor and I use linux if that counts :D

I've noticed that some "mobility" startups are using Linux. E.g. companies working on electric or automated vehicles.

I think they are a bit harder to manage

My company uses Ubuntu on a few products they sell to customers, but it's only a relative few devs that use desktop Linux as a daily driver.

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