Does anyone actually use Linux as a desktop OS in the professional world?
>>53793880
At least my current employer, my last employer and most of their clients did.
A professor of mine who works at LHC uses gnu/linux, and according to him the team he's in uses gnu/linux for running their data analysis framework (root, it was originally made especially for the LHC experiment)
>>53793880
Pretty much yes.
>>53793880
I work for a contractor that does IT for the DoD. We use RHEL here.
Some Google employees use a customized Ubuntu.
Me.
Two devops guys use Ubuntu primarily at my office
>>53793880
Lots of Google fags use Ubuntu
I'm going to university to study CS in September, should I install Linux and can someone give me a link to a guide on how to?
>>53793880
My company uses OSX because it's Unix-based. There is the option to bring your own linux laptop, but Windows is out of the question
>>53794412
>should I install Linux
You should get a list of required software and get whatever they recommend
I work as backend dev for a mobile game company. I use i3wm running on ubuntu daily.
My previous job was as a backend dev for a hosting company, i used the same setup.
>>53794412
try if you like it in a vm, try xubuntu since xfce is worth getting accostumed to
>>53793880
No.
I work in a bank and we use linux in all machines
>>53793880
>>53794412
>>53794490
>>53794835
You mean GNU/Linux?
>>53794029
I believe CERN uses Scientific Linux.
I'm enrolled in a top university and we all use Linux here. Not exclusively though.
>>53794947
no.
>>53793880
Developers, security experts and sysadmins mostly use Linux.
>>53793880
fedora at the office, arch at home
sometimes arch gets little 2bleedingedge4office, and spend half to an hour fixing when you should be working isn't that cool as it sounds, is not really often but Murphy is a bitch
>>53793880
-My professor runs Debian
-Sysadmins run Linux
-Most of worlds defence forces run Linux (not sure about burgerland, who spies on themselves anyway? I heard reptiles are using their version of RHEL)
-Linux is used in Engineering environments (NASA, CERN, Fermilab Toyota etc)
-Also used where heavy video rendering is required (Pixar)
-NYSC cucks
-Amazon uses linux
Filling up excel sheets is not the only job out there, wage cuck
>>53793880
IBM switched most of it's workstations to Linux. They have an internal brew based on RedHAt. They, of course couldn't switch most of the mentally retarded managers over who know nothing about computers. Management had to stick to Windows. Which should tell you everything you need to know about today's IBM.
>>53793880
Desktop? yes. Workstation? YES.
>>53794947
>implying I haven't built my own set of tools over the Linux kernel
Work for a big SaaS company, you can choose Windows, Mac, or Ubuntu. Ubuntu is only available for desktops so most of us have a MacBook Pro, or a MacBook Air with Ubuntu desktop.
>>53795666
Renderman is Windows.
>>53793880
plenty of my professors use Linux as their desktop OS, as do other people I know doing IT/sysadmin/etc.
Also I was at Denny's last night/this morning and when they restarted the monitors in the store I saw them booting up fedora
>>53797110
rollin'
>>53793880
>Does anyone actually use Linux as a desktop OS in the professional world?
Rather most of scientific researchers, R&D labs, delopment engineers use linux. In fact top IT and engineering companies's real engineers are mostly on linux.
But yeah, ppl tweeting shit on twitter and Facebook as a job and calling it social engineering or whatever will never need to use it.
>>53797062
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFZazwvYc5o
>>53797151
dammit
>>53797062
>>53797161
All the devs at my work use a fedora VM.
The host OS is windows purely due to company policy.
>>53795184
AFAIK CERN and the KDE people work closely
>http://cukic.co/2016/03/15/bugs-in-the-fabric-of-reality/
>http://blogs.churlaud.com/somefoobar/2016/03/17/sprint-at-cern-things-got-done/
>http://www.proli.net/2016/03/19/a-special-sprint-at-cern/
>http://notmart.org/blog/2016/03/little-plasma-things-at-cern/
>https://dot.kde.org/2016/03/23/plasma-team-gets-physical
>https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/03/wayland-accelerated-at-cern/
>>53796102
No one runs open client unless they need Group 1 access
>>53794471
First, no it's not. Second, that's a dumb reason to use something, do they actually need compatibility with software written for Unix?
>>53793880
I used fedora at yahoo
>>53797110
roll
>>53797313
Damn.... I want to install KDE on my next Ubuntu LTS
>>53797110
roll
>>53797110
roll
>>53797553
>>53797563
Gg guys
>>53797110
quads
>>53797558
What you are looking for is called KDE Neon. Look it up
>>53797110
The only way she'd ever see my dick would result in me going to jail.
Also my captcha says "Johnson Exit", rather topical.
>>53793880
Yes. At my workplace, almost everybody uses either Linux or (a small amount) OS X.
>all the linux users itt
oh i guess that's why we call today a april fools day
>>53797110
Roll
>>53797597
Neat.
I'd rather wait for the LTS though... since I like comfy long term support
I work at google and everyone here uses either mac os or windows. In fact, you're not permitted to connect a linux/bsd device that isn't chrome/ium based to the internal network due to security issues. I used to work at nasa and the situation was the same there.
>>53797597
I'm trying it though on a VM... here goes nothing
>>53793880
Yes my company specifically use it.
>>53797813
This is the first thing that came up when I searched "what os does google use".
Google's desktop operating system of choice is Ubuntu Linux. San Diego, CA: Most Linux people know that Google uses Linux on its desktops as well as its servers. Some know that Ubuntu Linux is Google's desktop of choice and that it's called Goobuntu
Pretty much all modern machines in Industry use Ubuntu now, just because its cheaper than Windows.
>>53793880
Airports, banks and other business. Yeah, why wouldn't they? Unix and Unix-link operating systems have excellent security.
First off not every os that isn't windows or os x is linux. Most big companies that are big in tech probably use their own os, not linux.
>>53797996
>how to spot a retard
>>53797909
Well, as a google employee I can tell you that it's false. The site where you read that is obviously not a reliable source of information.
>>53797110
rolling
>>53797909
This is pretty much bullshit, most Google employees use Macs.
>>53798088
I assume that Google uses a plethora of different OS's? I mean it's a pretty big company.
>>53797110
rollg
My lab's bioinformatics work is done through GNU/Linux systems.
>>53798088
>>53797813
this sounds exactly like how 15 year old me would type when bullshitting on the internet
>>53797110
0 usually leggo
>>53797515
holy shit ur dumb
>>53798088
google literally said they use goobuntu
u are an underage
>>53797110
le el la grange
>>53798088
>>53798155
Google primarily uses their own filesystem (GFS) and thus primarily uses Linux.
>>53797829
Stable is not out yet, anon
Aerospace engineer here using Redhat 5 at work
> still on kernel 2.6.18
>>53797110
lollersk8n' bruh
>>53793880
me at work
ubuntu 14.04
Used to work in a research lab which was financed by HP. We all used linux there. Only the web designer didn't, he used osx.
>>53794308
>Some
>>53798744
You're working pretty late, anon.
>>53797829
report findings, plz! :D:
>>53794412
>should I install Linux
absolutely
you'll learn how an OS actually runs under the hood
and how cli is simple but powerful
I recommend doing shit in cli that you would normally use gui for
>>53798888
congrats on the quads!!!!
>>53797110
Roll
Debian user here. I would use Fedora to stay upstream and informed of CentOS future versions, but you have to update way too often.
At JPL we use Red Hat. Intern computers are set up with Fedora.
Yes
However, if you are a /g/tard and have a retarded definition of "desktop" along the lines of
>has new AAA games, photoshop, microsoft office
>usable by grandma
>supports MY brand new gayman graphics card
Then no, they don't, and nobody in the professional world has a 100% desktop anyways.
>>53798888
No, you won't. The way a modern linux runs under the hood can not be understood just by learning the retardation of POSIX sh and its accompanying software tools (aka "CLI"). Fuck, you won't even learn how BSD operates by learning sh. Fuck, init scripts don't even have to be in sh! People have written them in perl and python, and C is a technical possibility! Not that learning sh would teach you how sysv-style init or upstart actually worked in the first place! And how many linux users even know exactly what dbus and udev do? Apparently not many, because the anti-systemd crowd still uses the fuck out of them (udev especially) without complaining about the "UNIX way" or "bloat". They even unironically use vim when it's really just all the code bloat of emacs compiled into a smaller binary with the magic of ifdef hell.
>>53800743
>They even unironically use vim when it's really just all the code bloat of emacs compiled into a smaller binary with the magic of ifdef hell.
Care to detail on that one?
>>53800770
Download vim's source and take a peek around. It's hardly the epitome of the UNIX way or clean, maintainable code. Also take a look at its fairly long list of fairly dumb CVEs, mostly parsing errors in its motherfucking embedded scripting language (vi never had that).
Ask a neovim maintainer about how much unused legacy code they ripped out, ifdefs and all. I believe the source can fit on a floppy again.
The thinkpads on the ISS are running Debian stable.
