Let me preface this by saying I exclusively use Linux on my personal computers.
Holy shit Windows is sooo much easier to use and administrate in an enterprise setting than Linux desktops. It’s not even close. It’s almost as if billions of dollars have been poured into it to make it the far easier choice for enterprises.
I get the joke of the post and I thought it was funny, but the comments are getting a bit too serious.
Interesting. I’ve never managed desktop environments for a lot of people. What makes it easier? I guess more interestingly what makes linux hard in that context? I’m guessing Samba?
In two words: Active Directory.
A robust and well vetted set of tools with reliable GUI interfaces for managing very large numbers of users, their permissions, and the computers from basically anywhere on the network.
There’s nothing AD does that couldn’t be done in Linux, but nothing even close to the scope and maturity exists yet, as far as I know. Even Apple doesn’t have anything truly comparable.
Managing a large number of Linux users probably means relying on 3rd party software which isn’t baked in to the OS, which can have reliability issues, or developing user management tools in-house which is pretty hard to justify for most enterprises.
Azure Active Directory
The tools. The tools make it easier. Lots and lots of them.
There are people who game on Linux just as there are people using Windows or Mac for IT infrastructure.
Arguably, some games support Linux, but why would anyone ever trust a closed-source private product with security, if an internationally recognised open source solution exists?
Just to nitpick, but open source != secure. Things like the XZ backdoor can still happen to just about any open source project (and quite likely have, and have yet to be discovered). While open source allows for more security in a project in many situations, it doesn’t inherently guarantee security.
No matter what software you use, you’re having to place a certain amount of trust in the developer. And for a lot of people, it’s easier to place that trust in a group that has an established reputation, such as Microsoft or Apple or Google.
It definitely isn’t secure by default, but I’ll take it over a corporation hiding any mention of a security hole in their product because it will drop their share price next week while script kiddos from russia and china download credit card database from it’s biggest customers.
For the same reason they use it for gaming: Because enterprise software was developed for it, and ONLY it, in a majority of cases.
Solidworks for example. Your engineers and designers will almost definitely make use of it - Windows only. Runs like shit in Linux or anything else. Same with most enterprise software. Even the ones that have Linux builds are usually like “You can use this, but thar be dragons and we won’t tech-support you through them”
Ain’t that the truth. I’d have abandoned Windows a while back if Linux could run Solidworks without issue. FreeCAD is great but it has a long way to go to make it more intuitive and user friendly.
I think it sucks that nobody here understood this hilarious joke. I’ve noticed that this kind of dry humor doesn’t work on Lemmy, which sucks because I’m hilarious in every other context. I feel for you, dude.
I agree, sarcasm is funny! Most these people don’t understand sarcasm. (Whispers) I think it scares and confuses them.
Without any way to indicate tone or context, OPs intent can be validly interpreted in many ways. More so considering how many people post serious takes which are totally inaccurate. For example, the annual wave of posts about how the Year Of The Linux Desktop is coming.
Clueless OP. So many people think they are going to be the MSP that makes Linux for the general workforce a thing.
Even you say stupid shit like Windows is niche is pretty obvious you are high on copium with an opinion based on fantasy.
And for some reason you all forget shit like open SSL being broken for years leaking tls sessions. As if giant world level scope bugs don’t happen on Linux.
Do you know what a joke is?
Windows isn’t niche…
Keep telling yourself that and you’ll start believing it. ;)
Copium overdose
Can’t tell if OP is a troll or just clueless, but imagine calling the dominant OS with 72% desktop market share “niche”
Here i found a picture of OP:
I swear there is a bug on lemmy where certain people can’t read humor at all. There were some theories about this a few years back. Odd question, do you have an inner-monologue?
Here, I will explain the joke. Under one theory of humor all jokes need to rely on some sort of incongruency or two paired incongruencies. It’s funny because Windows is not that niche (compared to linux) but it is understandable that a particular person’s relationship with Windows is PC Gaming. It’s also an incongruency that someone who (hypothetical for the joke) is wrong about Windows being niche would still be able to form a more useful opinion than entire teams of corporate professionals across an industry and still be right.
For real though, if you could get back to me on the inner-monologue thing it would be greatly appreciated. I’m actually here to psych-eval lemmy’s users. I’m not joking. So I would appreciate that if possible. Thanks a mil.
That’s a very robotic way of looking into how you came up with this joke, “if I add one incongruency with another incongruency, then the joke will be hilarious and funny”
No. It’s a robotic post analysis. But some people here need the theory of humor explained to them because they take everything in a strictly literal way. Like it fully flies over their head that I don’t actually think Windows is a niche operating system.
The fact that you have to explain this joke to everyone here means it wasn’t a very good one. No nned to get defensive, just… Learn to have a better sense of humor next time lol
