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This is being posted just a day after this tweet: https://twitter.com/allenholub/status/1555324387087097856 I really wonder what it's like inside Gitlab. The product ticks all the boxes you'd want it to, but the user experience just resonates with sadness and misery.
In an office where you have on-site IT staff, and a local corporate LAN, you can require every windows machine to be part of AD, have group security policies pushed out, and generally have tools available for central management.
But with gitlab, everyone is working in their own networks around the world. That sounds like a very hard environment in which to globally apply the types of security policies that are needed to keep Windows secure.
Seems weird to harp on the cost of a windows license when they're buying Mac OS licenses instead (although hidden in the device's prie).
Although not even hinted at in the doc, I personally find the tedium of buying and provisioning and monitoring licenses worse than the cost of it. I suppose you are also inviting risk in the form of an audit.
I guess Gitlab doesn't care about having customers that work on Windows platforms. Meanwhile Github works just great for us.
Seems weird to harp on the cost of a windows license when they're buying Mac OS licenses instead (although hidden in the device's prie).
I am curious about the M1 max for the top performing configuration, wonder if there is a business need for it over an M1 pro with the same storage and memory. Especially since they are mentioning the few hundred dollars a windows pro licence would cost as a reason not to get windows laptops.
I bought an M1 Max for the extra displays support, and the 64gb RAM support. Not that I need 64g, that was more because I found a decent deal on one that happened to be 64g. But I sure don’t complain about it :)
>> GitLab approves the use of Linux, and Apple's macOS. Microsoft Windows is prohibited for the following reasons: Due to Microsoft Windows' dominance in desktop operating systems, Windows is the platform most targetted by spyware, viruses, and ransomware. macOS is preinstalled on Apple computers and Linux is available free of charge. To approve the use of Windows, GitLab would have to purchase Windows Professional l…
Neither spyware, virus or ransomware has slowed my computer to a halt as much as using GitLab.