It doesn’t depend on the software. This is a decision my company made for all of the ten thousands of employees, not because we use software from Adobe, but because they want the same conditions for everyone so that they can manage them “easily”.
Big companies are not very flexible in those regards
Tell me you’ve never worked at a large company without telling me you’ve never worked at a large company.
This is pretty standard policy and has been true everywhere I’ve ever worked. In order to maintain any amount of security or stability, you’ll need everyone not only in the same OS, but will prescribe the specific updates/patches that need to be applied. Depending on the industry, you may also need to approve things anywhere from the level of individual applications to device drivers.
Agreed, but adding that tech companies often provide the choice between Windows and Mac, both being very locked-down of course. The only place where I was able to work with desktop Linux were research laboratories and early stage startups that are too young to bother with all the IT locking down and would rather give their engineers whatever they prefer, which serves as a cheap benefit compared to big companies.
It doesn’t depend on the software. This is a decision my company made for all of the ten thousands of employees, not because we use software from Adobe, but because they want the same conditions for everyone so that they can manage them “easily”.
Big companies are not very flexible in those regards
Shit company, shit policy. If it’s not software dependent then you should be free to pick the environment that’s you’re most productive with
Tell me you’ve never worked at a large company without telling me you’ve never worked at a large company.
This is pretty standard policy and has been true everywhere I’ve ever worked. In order to maintain any amount of security or stability, you’ll need everyone not only in the same OS, but will prescribe the specific updates/patches that need to be applied. Depending on the industry, you may also need to approve things anywhere from the level of individual applications to device drivers.
Agreed, but adding that tech companies often provide the choice between Windows and Mac, both being very locked-down of course. The only place where I was able to work with desktop Linux were research laboratories and early stage startups that are too young to bother with all the IT locking down and would rather give their engineers whatever they prefer, which serves as a cheap benefit compared to big companies.