[Karupan]

> One company told me yes for the first one, but when I got there I found Linux was completely unsupported by the draconian IT department

Happened with me as well (but I use a macbook). I won’t call it draconian. The IT department usually has to deal with a large number of hardware/software support requests on a daily basis. It’s quite understandable that they won’t have all the answers for a platform they’ve never used/supported before.

[globular-toast]

I didn't say it was draconian for not supporting Linux, just that it was draconian. It was widely recognised in the part of the business I was in that the IT department was holding the company back when it came to technology.

And, in any case, I wasn't asking any questions about Linux, I just wanted to connect to the network. My current company lets me use whatever weird distro I want (even Arch, btw), but they won't officially support it. That's fine. I can, however, ask them to support standards that I need (rather than specific support for some distro).

[codeisawesome]

I completely understand that that IT department sounds draconian and lazy.