I joined Dell Recently. I have been a long time Mac User. I was given a 16GB Dell Precision 5520. The Dell laptop is of very poor quality and it is very very slow. I can't do anything on this machine. I feel so depressed and unproductive. I tried asking the IT guys and they said there is no other choice inside Dell. Why is this? I am OK with Ubuntu. but I cannot tolerate the shitty machine and OS given to me. Is quitting the job the only option?
In many/most offices you can run whatever you want on your desktop .. most people here run some flavour of Linux. As for the laptop .. ask for an xps 15 ?
Quit
I wish
Ask for a workstation. Laptop for email only
Just wipe out the windows and install Ubuntu. No one stopping you to do that. Then use VPN to get into the Dell network. I don’t understand why you want to quit. If you are not happy with the performance, ask for a dell workstation or XPS 15.
Can the Cisco VPN client be installed on Ubuntu? If yes I'll wipe out the windows Crap within seconds
Yes sir
Yes
If you don’t understand why asking for a Mac isn’t a choice - you shouldn’t have applied at Dell. There are many Dell models you could have ordered.
Just install whatever you want on your laptop, then run the Corp trash in a vm
Some laptops have developer version with Linux system. But yeah...you can't request Mac. That's not an option