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Companies that use desktop Linux (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically title. Do you know of any companies that use desktop Linux?

I can think of two in my area in Brisbane - Adfinis and Red Hat. Both have a pretty small presence here from what I last heard (several employees each).

My employer allows the Linux team to use Linux but it's discouraged and our lives are made somewhat difficult.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My 4 last employers have used desktop Linux to some extent:

Ericsson (Swedish telecoms), default was to have a Windows laptop with X server (Citrix?) but a few of us were lucky enough to get a Linux laptop.
Vector (German automotive), Linux dev. environment in a VM on Windows laptops.
Opera Software (Norwegian web browser), first day I was given a stack of components and told to assemble my PC and then install my Linux distribution of choice.
And a smaller company, which shall remain unnamed, also used Windows laptops with Linux dev. env. in VM.

Sure most of it was on top of Windows, but if you fullscreen it you can barely tell the difference :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Opera Software (Norwegian web browser), first day I was given a stack of components and told to assemble my PC and then install my Linux distribution of choice.

Not Swedish?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nope, Norwegian company until they were bought by Chinese investors a few years ago. They did have a lot of developers in Sweden and Poland though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Failed attempt at an IKEA joke, considering the was given a stack of components and told to assemble my PC part. 😥

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ahh, now I get it :P