Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

submitted by [deleted] from self.technology

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 licenses, as Windows Home Edition does not satisfy GitLab's security guidelines.

As many purchases of laptops have occurred with employees making the purchases and then being reimbursed by GitLab, a remote employee would typically be making a purchase of a laptop pre-loaded with Windows Home Edition.

  • Windows Home Edition is notoriously hard to secure

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-technology/team-member-enablement/onboarding-access-requests/

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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Didn't know what you meant until I read most of it. This is about what their employees can use for work activities.

I think this is a good policy. Why anyone would voluntarily use Windows if they can run the software they need to on something else (anything else) just continues to bewilder me.

[–]RandumbZer0 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Linux isn't user friendly/compatible enough for most 'civilians' & fuck everything Apple.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I agree on the "compatible" point. I've mostly dealt with it by buying turnkey Linux systems (and this is coming from someone who first used Linux in 1998). On occasion my wife will bring home a scanner or printer or something, and at that point I just have to roll the dice and Google it. It's not ideal.

Once it's all set up I find Linux to be much easier to use than Windows or iOS. Windows seems to just randomly get bogged down and stop processing my input. It also changes a lot. I remember there being a version where they dropped the Start button. Then "Start" came back. On the newest version of Windows I've used the window it brought up was like, giant and full of ads, the weather, etc. Huge "WTF?" moment.

The iOS windowing metaphor is also full of those moments. I seriously think they need to just license something from Microsoft (right click? ALT+Tab?) instead of being stubborn and calling their shit "Mission Control" and acting like it's special. It's just total chaos.

[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

While I agree with the sentiment, the idea they get to pick the winners and losers under the house if freedom is crazy... They are anti freedom, and ultimately leads to exactly what they are railing against.

[–]filbs111 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. Furthermore, the use of things like Teams or Zoom for work related chat seems like a liability. What's stopping Microsoft et al getting insider info to inform sharedealing?

[–]RedEyedWarrior 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Based.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They took back rolling release to feed their greed even more than they already did.

Basically, they're just stealing or copying ideas and implementations of the FOSS community to sell them to their slaves.

With the money, they pimp from the "corporations" too lazy to ditch their fucking virus, they then buy political weight with.

Which they managed to trap with their bs fences for decades now, because these "deciders" in the "big" corporations are lazy overpaid full-time bullshitters themselves for most parts.

Like the whole lie, microshit is built upon, itself is.

The world has become really, really sad to look at in these aspects of a mean sheeple's simulation.