
"Missing UI features such as taskbar positioning irritated users"
302 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jun 2012
Most large corporates now tend to deploy "endpoint management" software to audit what's on the machine and enforce policies, which usually will not run on Linux. So, if your company laptop doesn't communicate with the endpoint management server, expect awkward questions followed swiftly by a re-install of the corporate Windows build.
Of the various brands of laptops that I have, the only ones that have had fatal mainboard failures are Lenovo. One (work) laptop keeled over twice in its three-year warranty period and the consumer laptops died shortly after the warranty expired.
The corporate buyers at work removed Lenovo from their suppliers list some time ago.
"paradoxically both lightweight and cluttered with multiple redundant choices"
That's exactly why I use Linux as my daily driver: sometimes it's useful to have gVim, Kate and Gedit open with different files...
The same with window managers/desktop environments: I like being able to run IceWM one day, i3 the following day, GNOME the next day.