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I work in an office which utilities many different devices and operating system, yet I only know of two places we use linux, and that's not including embedded.
When I started my current role as a PHP Developer, I was given a laptop and the general accessories, but was given the choice of what OS I wanted to use. From a linux background I wanted linux, but as the other developers used windows I went with windows.
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Now over a year on, I look round the office and its an odd landscape. Most of the general computers are Windows 7 workstations supplied by a specific company. The directors and staff who frequently work away from office have iPhones, iPads and Mac Book Airs and there are a Few windows 8 notebooks scattered around.
Most of my work, and that of the rest of my department is on a Debain server hosted remotely, one developer has stuck with windows 7, the other upgraded to windows 10 and the IT Department use Windows Server and Exchange Server.
Unlike everyone else in the company, I ditched windows like a tonne of bricks and installed Ubuntu on my laptop and find it so much easier to work.
Why do I use linux when everyone else doesn't?
I feel at home with linux, and more productive, and the criteria for the work I do can all be done on linux.
Access to Programs
The main programs we use (as a department) are;
SSH (Windows uses Putty to do this, I do this in the Terminal)
Email (Windows uses Outlook Express, I use Evolution)
FTP (FileZilla on both)
MySQL Administration (HeidiSQL via SSH Tunnel on both, works perfect through wine)
FireFox, Chrome (On both)
All my bases are covered, but now we get onto speed. We all have fairly decent laptops, ranging from i5 to i7 in processors, and have all moved to SSD’s to remove bottlenecks.
HDD Usage
An interesting problem what the windows users found which I had no issue with was space and transfer.
We were all moving to 120GB SSD’s which for me was a breeze, just did a fresh install, using only 10GB with all my programs installed.
With the windows users they had to clear everything they can from their laptops using a range of tools, when transferred over they were using 80GB of space. A fresh wipe was not possible due to the laptops being downgraded from windows 8 keys.
I have found that in general, everything we do at work can be done on linux, and usually in a better and more convenient way. Such example is local testing, every language i use or experiment with I can do on my laptop, without touching the works server, so any issue its my laptop with the issue. My colleges generally have to do it on the server.
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