Not to repeat myself from when I saw this posted last, but:
Seeing thinkpads running Windows feels just wrong.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2024
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They do tend to start out that way, until they come off-lease and have Arch installed on them by a Blåhaj-clutching, thigh-high-wearing FOSS enjoyer
With a tiling WM? 🥹
You use a graphical environment? Sissy.
Hey, there's something in between. I just got myself a T490 and am dual-booting Mint and Windows.
Like 90% of professional laptops in America are this exact set up? I have one sitting on my table right now. You Linux people seem to think there are a lot more of you than there are.
Like 90% of professional laptops in America are this exact set up
It's true. There's a lot of wickedness in this world.
Were aware we're the minority. But still to see it confirmed in real life 😅
I love my ThinkPad, but that's mostly because of the TrackPoint
Good thing they all use the same laptop! I sense a high level of truth here /s
Are you suggesting that this person may not actually be admitting to several crimes openly on twitter
I have my doubts
They obviously all work at the same company, or even department, you conspiranoic!
By her own math, this would be slightly more than one week’s worth of stolen laptops. So…
As if finance guys would have ThinkPads and not macs
Work in finance, have a thinkpad
IT doesn't count.
Why would they have macs? Everyone I know in finance has a windows desktop and or laptop.
Everyone I know in literally every company has a Windows PC. I've had people tell me that everyone at their office uses a Mac or Linux and I'm just bamboozled. I guess I do work for a large law firm and most law firms, financial companies and most software companies that we work with are windows shops.
I know a few in software that are Mac and that makes sense in that either will do and one is generally more sought after. Generally I expect Mac in creative spaces not administrative.
I have never seen linux outside of IT departments and personal machines.
FWIW, academia is utterly dominated by Macs. In the last 10 years I have known exactly one colleague to choose to use a PC, and her open reason for doing that is that she thinks it’s fun to be contrarian. A lot of (psychology) labs will have one dusty PC stashed away in a corner somewhere running that one weird piece of Windows-only proprietary software for the eye-tracker or a super niche stats program or something, but then you make IT come in to keep it alive because the idea of having to put any effort into using it or replacing it is horrible.
I was a little curious whether losing the ability to BootCamp (the new M chips can’t, and I personally used dual booting all the time for video games) would change anything, but my university’s response was to start paying for Parallels for anyone who wants it.
I really didn’t understand why people still acted like anybody at all uses Windows until my husband moved from academia to industry a few years ago and we were totally floored by the PC-culture (heh) he found himself in (though he’s personally pretty anti-Mac and not complaining). Now the only Mac he sees is mine and the only PC I see is his. It’s wild.
Yea I could see that. I was challenged in a few other places on Lemmy because my company didn't use Linux and supposedly it was more common than Windows which blew my mind. Outside of school though I don't see professionals using Macs unless maybe it's a personal device or some software devs/designers. I go to my fair share of conferences and events which are almost always Dell, Lenovo or HP machines running Windows.
Everywhere I've worked used windows too, but I've never worked in tech which may be the reason.
My current spot uses win10 machines literally just for shipstation and zebra label printers, we could switch if the printers work on linux and if shitstation doesn't "need" edge. And we should, because windows has been giving us problems.
My last job I was delivering pizza, left during the pandemic, the one working POS (dual meaning) computer still ran XP lmao.
It depends on the company.
And their rank in the company.
Macs are useless for Finance
In my past 20 years in investment banks, i saw only one a guy with a Mac. He was in communication. Everybody got a Thinkpad X, T or X1 Carbon for the execs.
The only person I know working in finance couldn't even afford their own ThinkPad. In fact, they are a bit malnourished as they can't even afford food some of the time. But they do live in this big, mostly empty house, which I could never afford in my entire lifetime, and towards mortgage for which most of their money goes. Something-something appreciating assets yada-yada
I wonder what kind of shenanigans you could get up to with a rack of 30+ thinkpads linked as a cluster computer...
"...It runs Doom!!"
I have some SFF computers I plan on doing this to when the weather turns to crap.
Excel stops crashing
That's one hell of a felony
One fell of a helony
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“My company got a load of laptops in, wonder kind of cool sm post I can make with ‘em before I deploy ‘em…
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I got it!”
So, are thinkpads actually good laptops, or are they just cheap and companies buy them in bulk?