On 10/05/17 03:33 PM, Dianne Skoll wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have to say, I do not understand the rationale behind asking
> Linux developers to use Windows workstations. Just my 2 cents.
Agree (so now we are up in 4c)
>
> Yes, I know the usual answer... that they also need access to
> Windows-only tools like Outlook, etc. I suspect you'll find that
> discourages some of the best Linux developers from considering the
> position. Alternatively, you may find that many of them ignore the
> Windows boxes and bring in their own laptops to do the work.
In my work (which is 100% linux related) we have the "you must use
IE/sharepoint/onedrive/..." issue and they way we solved that is by
running a vm. Personally I'm running linux (fedora) on my laptop and
have a windoze vm under virtualbox, some other has the reverse, the only
one who doesn't was the contractors, they had all windoze (I guess that
was because they where paid by the hour and didn't care that it was slow).
Doing linux development on windoze platform, guess that's as easy as
develop windoze applications on a linux platform ("wine can do it") or
go to India to learn spanish ("it's cheaper there").
/ps