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Stopped reading when she called herself a journalist for writing an opinion column. Opinion isn’t news. Maybe she should get a job at Fox with that attitude.

British brains, American steel, Soviet blood.

Terminal servers, sccm, SQL, software that’s only available for Windows. Companies and governments don’t consider ideology when they choose a platform. They consider “what do I need to run this product” and “what’s the TCO”. Most larger orgs will have a healthy mix of windows and *nix servers and often a separate team to manage each.

Just about every government and business. I’m guessing you’ve never had a job in IT.

VMs aren’t emulation. Its a full OS running on virtual hardware. Also, yes, azure offers several distros, not just Microsoft’s.

The OS of the bare metal host shouldn’t matter much, if at all, to the guest. If you have a philosophical issue with the hypervisor running under windows I doubt you’d be using azure to begin with.

Its not emulation, it’s a Microsoft distro

Already exists as a VM option on azure

Elitism and gatekeeping.

Its time to retire the metric system in favor of something base 12. Base 10 is for children who need to count on their fingers, base 12 is easier to divide into quarters or thirds. Babylon was right.

it’s my time I’m spending on it.

You are being paid for that time. If you sell something it is no longer yours.

So much horrible advice in this thread.

The machine the company issues you isn’t yours, it’s theirs. Wiping out their image and installing another OS is a fantastic way to get fired. If you handle any PII, HIPAA, or PCI data it’s also a fantastic way to get sued or charged with a crime.

I hear the unemployment line is nice this time of year

I started unplugging the Ethernet cable when I leave for work so IT can’t do any behind the scenes when I’m away.

Speaking as an IT guy, don’t do this. Its not your computer, and it’s our job to manage it. If you don’t like the company’s policies go work somewhere else. This is how you get my boss to call your boss into a meeting.

When they did discover the clitoris, they immediately landed a rover on it

What distro uses /Users instead of /home? Doesn’t that break the standard?

Get something on .com or .net. Vanity tlds will piss off reputation services. And make sure you set up spf/dkim

“I’m stuck in this pit, working for less than slave wages. Working on my day off, the goddamn steel shutters are closed, I deal with every backward ass fuck on the planet. I smell like shoe polish. My ex-girlfriend is catatonic after fucking a dead guy. And my present girlfriend has sucked 36 dicks.”

“37.”

It’s not like they can’t. There are plenty of options available for people to make sites that are easier and much more capable than groceries or angelfire. People don’t use them.