I work at a startup, and simply started using Linux once I became valuable. Nobody could really say much
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The company I work at has ~100 employees at our location (there are other locations too, but they each work rather independently).
We primarily use Windows throughout the company, but anyone who wants can run Linux. So we have ~20 people or so running Linux.
It's primarily people in Software Engineering that use Linux, and here mostly devs and devops. In these areas there is more than enough software for Linux, so that's not an issue. We sadly use Microsoft's office stuff a lot, so we have Teams, Exchange and their cloud stuff. So on Linux we use teams-on-linux and Prospect Mail (third-party wrapper apps for Microsoft's cloud stuff), and they work about as well as you'd expect third-party wrappers for Microsoft's cloud stuff. Screen sharing apparently still doesn't work on Wayland, so X11 it is.
A big hurdle is the DPI (=>deep packet inspection) solution that is used in the office, since it doesn't play nice with Linux for some reason. That took a while to get to work correctly.
DPI? There are at least 4 expansions for that.
Sorry, DPI = Deep packet inspection, not Dots per inch. Just when reading your comment I noticed the possible confusion.
Working at a small software company for the summer, the dev team I'm on all uses Linux - there isn't even a setup for windows. Don't know how that decision was made though, it was way before my time. But it was very nice to come in and see a thinkpad with kubuntu on it.
Other teams use windows though, QA and some non-technical roles like sales.
There's a lot of Microsoft stuff used (office, teams) but the web apps work fine, and we do most stuff in slack anyway.
I'm interested in this as well. Also is anyone using libre accounting or crm software? Gnucash seems legit, I've never used the foss crm stuff but it also seems good from the outside
We've been using a customized ERPNext for about 7 years though. But it's just a web-based application, so any client's fine.
Dolibarr is Well Known in Europe, also Odoo, but they are near ERP than accounting.
Mostly accounting software nowadays are lean towards akunting based on Laravel stuff..
I imagine that Canonical is using it. In reality, i am just commenting here as i am also interested!
Work in Education and Software Industries.
I did manage fleet of Ubuntu and RHEL/Fedora instance. Mostly in education is research based services on top of container, either docker swarm or openshift. Most tech stack is PHP, Python for ML, and NodeJS
In software industries, I use kubernetes, and tech stack Nodejs, c#/net core, php, Java, python, golang, and some other popular language. Mostly using microservices arch, with DDD-MVC approach.
In education we have 10-20 Ubuntu/RHEL/Fedora for production, in Uni Labs, we have fleet (more than 20) of Gnome desktop with RHEL, supported by Red Hat Academy APAC. We do dual boot with windows because some WPF/.NET Desktop development lecture still held, but with Avalonia and React Native, seems it will change near future.
In software industries, mostly developer use windows, but they do debug on WSL2. Only small percentage using Linux desktop. Some are using mac, but it's under 3 people, negligible. Well...
For Education, it need about 7 years to fully moved from Windows server 2012, using Full Linux. In past some lab do have MacOS server, but I never encounter or support them so.. I can't speak much.
But in software industries, from start, we have Linux box, and grow over time. We only have special windows server for SQL server that need reporting server ability, mostly tied to SAP/ERP project, the rest are in Linux Box. Mostly we use red hat ansible to make standard deployment. We do have cloud init, but only for first deployment, then ansible.
Thanks for this. Guess things will remain a bit of a mishmash even if there is a transition.
A place I used to work at, Sol1, supported Linux on the desktop for small businesses in Sydney, Australia. They're a ~10 person company and are really casual, so they'd probably be happy to answer any questions.