At least I feel I see a lot more Linux now, not just in the company I work for but also elsewhere.
The speed advantage over Windows is so huge that it is painful to go back once you've seen it.
MS Office isn't seen as a requirement anymore, nobody think it is funny if you use GSuite and besides, last time I used an office file for work is months ago: everything exist inæ Slack, Teams, Confluence or Jira and these are about equally bad on all platforms.
The same is true (except the awful part) for C# development: it is probably even better on Linux.
People could switch to Mac and I guess many will. For others, like me Mac just doesn't work and for us Linux is an almost obvious choice.
At the company I work for (400 people in Norway, offices in Sweden, Denmark and Romania as well) I don't know anyone who has a MS Office license.
There is a procedure to get one, but so far I don't know anyone who used it. Quite on the contrary I know one of our sales guys used to install and run Linux on his laptop.
Yes, I work and an above average technical company but we do have HR, sales etc and they aren't engineers (at least not most of them).
> At least I feel I see a lot more Linux now, not just in the company I work for but also elsewhere.
I see it far more now than I did ~5-10 years ago when it was my daily driver. I'm just not sure if it's gotten a baseline support and flatlined or if it's growing consistently now.
Fully agree with almost all of your points, and if MacOS did go off the deep end in terms of functionality, I'd be back on Linux. It's why I'm a big fan of what Marcan is doing and follow it closely.
If Linux support was as good now as it was when I switched, I'd likely have never switched to the Mac.
At least I feel I see a lot more Linux now, not just in the company I work for but also elsewhere.
The speed advantage over Windows is so huge that it is painful to go back once you've seen it.
MS Office isn't seen as a requirement anymore, nobody think it is funny if you use GSuite and besides, last time I used an office file for work is months ago: everything exist inæ Slack, Teams, Confluence or Jira and these are about equally bad on all platforms.
The same is true (except the awful part) for C# development: it is probably even better on Linux.
People could switch to Mac and I guess many will. For others, like me Mac just doesn't work and for us Linux is an almost obvious choice.