Re:Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab
by octokatt on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:13PM
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Realistically... Microsoft owns GitHub, and the weird Azure devops-ish solution for git. If an enterprise is on Microsoft, they're going to use one of those two solutions instead of GitLab.
Making IT's life _vastly harder_ to allow employees to maybe use Windows and see a solution the testing team didn't see is not a good trade-off.
That's not even going into how, exactly, Windows is going to make anyone's life better than using a Mac. Realistically, they're at least at parity.
The trade-off here is "make every IT support and supply line more filled with friction" to gain "people can use Windows if they'd really prefer, instead of Mac or Linux". That's a terrible trade-off, and GitLab is making good decisions.
Making IT's life _vastly harder_ to allow employees to maybe use Windows and see a solution the testing team didn't see is not a good trade-off.
That's not even going into how, exactly, Windows is going to make anyone's life better than using a Mac. Realistically, they're at least at parity.
The trade-off here is "make every IT support and supply line more filled with friction" to gain "people can use Windows if they'd really prefer, instead of Mac or Linux". That's a terrible trade-off, and GitLab is making good decisions.