Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab

Re:Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab by mbreese on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:04PM (#32358871)

I didn't read it as cost, but management overhead. It's easily possible to secure a Windows computer in an enterprise environment. They are fully remote and primarily a Mac shop, so they don't have that expertise or infrastructure. If you are running Linux on a Dell, then they assume you have the ability to manage that yourself.

I see this more as a function of them being fully remote more than anything else.

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Re:Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab by Xylakant on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:47PM (#32359436)

Then just say so instead of making excuses about security and cost. We also only buy a selected range of hardware and support a selected range of Operating Systems. But the reason is stated as “We currently don’t have the administrative capacity to support more than this. Period.” And that’s a fair reason and good reason and everyone understands that.

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