ssm, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Why do people always ask this kind of crap?

Fuck you too. 👍

It will contain software that is also centrally licenced so that your boss doesn’t have to figure out how to pay for thousands of dollars of software, they can just tell IT to bill a licence for software X to your cost centre at $13.75 a month.

To think they could be paying nothing for better software instead.

It will contain company sensitive data which will usually be encrypted by bitlocker, whose keys are stored with your domain account.

As soon as you need to decrypt that data, you’re at best trusting that data to the NT kernel if you use a memory filesystem.

It will have a domain login that is your corporate identity which will usually require multi factor authentication.

I’ve never heard the terminology domain account. Does it prevent you from using a different OS?

It will have the usual Teams/Outlook/SharePoint stuff with a centralised calendar and contacts for your company, and likely security classifications for all the communications you do through it, allowing you to join groups, accept invites to restricted groups, and limit access, all linked to your domain account.

I’d be surprised if there wasn’t some way to get some of these to work on not-windows / not-macos. Either a webclient or Pidgin, the everything client :)

If you’re on Linux, the company may have even released a proprietary native client, but I’d consider that a last resort as it compromises security and privacy.

It will probably have OneDrive, synced to a corporate server, again, linked to your domain account.

github.com/abraunegg/onedrive

And finally, your work laptop does not belong to you. Wiping it and installing Linux plus Wine and keeping company sensitive data on an unmanaged device will attract the ire of HR.

If your HR is that cancer I’d try looking for a different company. If they are scared of “unmanaged” devices why are they using a spyware OS.

Your IT department won’t give a crap. But they also won’t help if anything doesn’t work, such as trying to join a domain to access allllll those domain-linked features with an unauthorised device.

You shouldn’t be using Unix in production unless you know how to use Unix, I agree.