Just had to replace my Linux laptop that my old company (which got acquired). The new one has Windows, and I've seen on Slack our head of security say that Linux is "not supported" and IT's asset management software or whatever won't run on Linux. I know a couple of colleagues just wiped windows and put Linux on theirs but I feel uneasy flaunting the rules and I'm kind of sick of feeling like a pariah for my choice of OS. We're a web dev company, and our servers are Linux. Is it typical for a company like this to be inflexible? How common are Linux-friendly companies?
"Not Supported" doesn't mean don't do it. We have a friendlier wording, something along the lines of : "we can't support you" or "you're on your own but we won't stop you." But we've also got relatively lightweight device management.
Pull the hard drive out and put it into an external drive enclosure... next, install Linux on a brand new drive that you bought. If you ever need to boot from windows just plug the drive in and boot from it.
I use a virtual machine on Mac. It works great and does the trick.
I believe majority of developers have to work with Windows. Most of my career I've worked on Windows. It's possible to keep windows and still install Linux. I guess I did it with virtual box years ago.
It took an act of god and an ability for it to figure out how to do full disk encryption in Linux but we did finally get that option a couple of years ago.
Not really. Today's debian at least have a check box for FDE and that's it. Of course unless you were talking about using TPM instead of password, that requires some trick.
TPM
VirtualBox. You stay in compliance, yet you get your work done
I thought everyone developed on either Linux or Mac (it's at least a Unix). Who develops on Windows?
Nobody it's all Mac
The windows are issued mostly to non-devs