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Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

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Re: Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

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Post by mc32 »

horsawlarway wrote: post #9

I'm no fan of Windows myself, but I find this a fairly bad policy. If nothing else - what's not used is not tested. And if you expect any real population of users to be using Windows machines with your products, you should have developers/PMs/QA/support interacting with your products using Windows machines. I see this as: We're saving a bit of money and making ITs life easier, and in exchange users will get a worse p…

I guess is is for developers and business but in some other areas Windows would be hard to avoid: physical security systems, guest management systems and a few others.

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Post by prmoustache »

jaclaz wrote: post #93

Reading further on the page, the "Laptop Repair" part is interesting : >If your laptop is broken and needs to be repaired you can take it into an Apple repair store. You should ensure that you have a recent backup before doing so, and that your laptop is not your only registered device for iCloud two-factor authentication. >If the repair is not going to be too expensive (more than $1000 dollars USD), go ahead and rep…

No you can just buy another one on the spot if repair lead time is too long.

Re: Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

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Post by mc32 »

jaywalk wrote: post #98
politelemon wrote: post #54

> Due to Microsoft Windows' dominance in desktop operating systems, Windows is the platform most targetted by spyware, viruses, and ransomware. This is poor reasoning and a misunderstanding of how security works. Any org should be happy with any OS, as long as sufficient security controls for it exist. Anyone who oversees Windows estates, or works in desktop security, can tell you that they exist and are extensive, a…

I think there's a good bit of simple butthurt behind it as well, seeing as Microsoft owns their biggest (and far larger) competitor.

This is probably key. They probably will be avoiding O365 in favor of the other dominant office SaaS solution.

Re: Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

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Post by Xylakant »

jaclaz wrote: post #93

Reading further on the page, the "Laptop Repair" part is interesting : >If your laptop is broken and needs to be repaired you can take it into an Apple repair store. You should ensure that you have a recent backup before doing so, and that your laptop is not your only registered device for iCloud two-factor authentication. >If the repair is not going to be too expensive (more than $1000 dollars USD), go ahead and rep…

That‘s very funny since almost all repairs on apple devices that I‘ve seen took longer than a day. Apple had [1] some very funky policies about shipping spare parts that essentially required the repair shop to have the laptop on their workbench before ordering the spares.

[1] or even still has, it‘s been a while

Re: Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

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Post by jareds »

Havoc wrote: post #44

Doesn’t seem unreasonable. My work is entirely windows cause workload is primarily MS office Whatever works. There isn’t some sort of diversity and inclusion requirement for OSs

There may not be a "diversity and inclusion" requirement, but I wonder if using an alternative OS could be considered reasonable accommodations in disability law? I'm totally blind and interviewed at a startup and when I told them I needed a Windows machine for accessibility reasons they decided it wasn't worth having me do the take-home coding project. At that point I decided if they were going to refuse to make what I consider a reasonable accommodation I'm glad I found out before wasting time on a take-home project. If the job was IOS development, then they'd have a point, but it was all back-end work that could just as easily be done with WSL under Windows as Mac OS.

Re: Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

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Post by Guid_NewGuid »

Diggsey wrote: post #66
jchw wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, Gitlab is a web platform. It's pretty easy to test how it's going to work on different platforms without needing full machines. Heck, you can even just get Microsoft Edge binaries on macOS and Linux if you want to test Edge. But failing that, VMs are pretty sufficient.

Tell that to the FE devs who add `overflow: scroll` everywhere and don't spot the problem...

God yes, I hate how all FEs have tunnel vision on MacOS nowadays. Our sign-up flow had godawful scrollbars both horizontally and vertically for the longest time but they didn't notice because they're all on retina display Macbooks instead of what the bulk of our users will be using.

Re: Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

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Post by pjmlp »

salzig wrote: post #42
pjmlp wrote: post #22

I guess Gitlab doesn't care about having customers that work on Windows platforms. Meanwhile Github works just great for us.

because windows can't run browsers anymore? I would say they don't give a f*ck on the operating system you use, as long it includes a browser. It's just their workforce, where they don't want to see anyone working with windows.

Which means their workforce doesn't give a fuck about supporting CI/CD pipelines used by Windows development, unless they have some mental powers to test them with having Windows around.
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