Started my first job, it’s a helpdesk. It looks that I get tickets and try to help people on the other side, have build some PCs and am at first week.

But after ~3 years of using almost exclusive FOSS, I found out corporate software (especially Windows!) to be so absolutely unbearable.

Having Windows as example, on the surface it is bearable, but as I need to do more advanced stuff, oh GOD!
I needed iperf3 to test LAN speed, traceroute to test why some device is not responding, rsync to copy files… But none of it is installed and installing every single program is super annoying and troublesome. After that I get countless update popups from all sides, ugh.

  • ericjmorey@programming.dev
    6·
    6 months ago

    Every job has parts that you don’t like. You need to learn the skills that you get paid to use or find someone to pay you for the skills you have.

    Linux is as frustrating to someone that has built up a skill set with Windows centric knowledge base.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      as frustrating

      I do not know Windows administration at all. So half of my frustration is definetly by the lack of knowledge.

      But I also am scratching my head about so many things that are not clear.\

      1. Let’s say you need to manage ~10 workstations with dozens of programs and tools installed and keep them up-to-date, what tools Windows have build in for that?\
      2. An update broke. On Linux there are wikis explaining exactly what command like “dnf update” do, what files are replaced and I can check logs. On Windows all I know is that update go to some % and rollback, how can I know more?