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!

  • observantTrapezium
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    5 days ago

    That’s very unfortunate but hopefully you developed skills that will help you in your future career.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlOP
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      For sure, I’ve learned a ton in the last year. Hopefully I can land a Linux focused job this year and get away from Windows support once and for all.