Do You Get a UNIX Workstation at Work?

Fished asks: "This may be a selfish question, but so far as I can tell it hasn't been asked before. I'm currently a Solaris System Engineer in a Very Large Company. This Very Large Company has predictably standardized on Windows as their corporate desktop. However, they are also of the opinion that nobody needs anything -but- Windows on their desktop. If you're a UNIX/Linux systems engineer/administrator in a large company, do they give you a desktop for the platform you manage? Do you have any tips on justifying your need for a second, UNIX-based desktop to the powers that be?" "While Windows may be a truth for most employees, as a System Engineer I find that my productivity is much lower when I am forced to use Windows on my desktop. I spend way too much time overcoming the ways in which Windows is just different from UNIX, and not enough time getting my job done. Loading Solaris X86 is not an option, since we are required to use a bunch of software that is Windows only (much of it sloppily written, IE only internal websites, with fun things like ActiveX controls.) VmWare works, but is certainly less than ideal."

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Re:exceed

[Ash-Fox]

It's unix

OS X is not UNIX

without the bullshit.

What the hell are you talking about? I get more crap on OS X than on Windows or Linux. I can't even turn off anti-aliasing on that big white bar.

After 12 years of linux

I've used OS X since 10.1 to 10.4.9 (infact I still do). Half of the things I see on the adverts on Apple's website are a lie.

No reboots? Just install a quicktime update.
Seamless integration with windows networks? Samba keeps breaking.
Performs better? Windows and Linux seem faster to me for most things.
Easy to setup? Maybe... if it worked... I remember the time using the Apache that came with the OS X CD... It could only send the first 13kb (I think it was 13kb) of a file, and that was it. Well known issue, took entire OS updates to fix.
Less hardware issues because it all comes from Apple? I've seen everything, wireless driver issues, graphic driver issues etc. some of which to this day haven't been even fixed.

I switched to the mac.

I don't use Macs so often, guess why.