I just moved to a new workplace and as expected, there’s what we call ‘culture shock.’
Although in my case, it’s more of application shock. I am a FOSS advocate. I use FOSS in any machine that I get my hands on. I always search for FOSS counterparts of commercialized softwares. I encourage other people to use FOSS too.
Then it began with telling me to use MS Outlook as my mail client. It went on when they gave me a short list of applications that are usually used. Whoa!
I’m trying to get the hang of it while keeping my advocacy alive. I might be a little non-compliant to their tools just like with virtual machines, I still want VBox for it instead of their licensed VMWare; Notepad++ instead of another licensed UltraEdit; Greenshot instead of Snagit; among others.
However, servers are *nix machines. Ooooohh… love love love. hehehe
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I am also in the same boat as you are. When I started working where I am currently employed, it was quite frustrating because I have to use MS stuff whereas I have been advocating the use of Linux and OpenSource to a lot of people. Not only that, I have to support people who’s using the very applications that I have asked people to find Linux alternatives. Really don’t have a choice, its what feeds me and my family
But, the fire is still there and i have slowly and silently been trying to educate people about Linux and open source 