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Being Forced to Say Goodbye (lemmy.ml)
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My company's buyout has been completed, and their IT team is in the final stages of gutting our old systems and moving us on to all their infra.

Sadly, this means all my Linux and FOSS implementations I've worked on for the last year are getting shut down and ripped out this week. (They're all 100% Microsoft and proprietary junk at the new company)

I know it's dumb to feel sad about computers and software getting shut down, but it feels sucky to see all my hours of hard work getting trashed without a second thought.

That's the nature of a corpo takeover though. Just wanted to let off some steam to some folks here who I know would understand.

FOSS forever! ✊

Edit: Thanks, everybody so much for the kind words and advice!

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Well... shit. My company just sold my department to another company. The phrase they use in the office is "a Microsoft shop". We're talking Windows, Teams, Azure and O365.

The transition is going to be shit. After the transition is over, it will be shit.

I might just operate my workflow entirely out of WSL2 out of spite.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I feel simultaneously good and bad that the least modern team at my company is the Windows admin team. I hope they were embarrassed as shit when they were asked how that automated process I help them create 9 months ago was going and they said, "Uh, we'll be rolling it out this quarter." They're constantly at least 2 steps behind our Linux admins.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Teams is its own plane of hell. Sorry to hear.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I work at a "Microsoft Shop" in a division that was a previously acquired software developer that used an entirely linux based dev stack.

That stack is still all linux and we basically have to do all our work in WSL. It's a pain.