Developers. :(
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:50 pm
So we have the devs at work that are basically being told they have to run linux since all our software is developed in linux primarily, and all our hosted client environments are linux only (or will be, they might still have Windows as their DB server for now, and a couple REALLY old environments also have Windows as the main application servers).
So they're all just blindly installing things, and most of them aren't even sure WHAT they're installing. Every single one just about has come to me with the same story "I was installing everything we were told to install, and suddenly I can't log in". Did some digging, and SOMETHING they're installing is changing ownership of multiple files/directories in their home directory to root, so they don't have access to login to the gui (it's not breaking cli logins). Of course, none of them actually KNOW what they installed, as they're literally just following steps.
I also had one developer that decided his laptops display wasn't working as well as it should, so he installed the nvidia proprietary drivers. He has a laptop with Intel IGP only. And during the installation of the Nvidia binaries, it uninstalled xserver-xorg-video-* so it had NO video drivers remaining. WHY???!!!
Just thought some might get some chuckles at some of the stories from my work recently.
So they're all just blindly installing things, and most of them aren't even sure WHAT they're installing. Every single one just about has come to me with the same story "I was installing everything we were told to install, and suddenly I can't log in". Did some digging, and SOMETHING they're installing is changing ownership of multiple files/directories in their home directory to root, so they don't have access to login to the gui (it's not breaking cli logins). Of course, none of them actually KNOW what they installed, as they're literally just following steps.
I also had one developer that decided his laptops display wasn't working as well as it should, so he installed the nvidia proprietary drivers. He has a laptop with Intel IGP only. And during the installation of the Nvidia binaries, it uninstalled xserver-xorg-video-* so it had NO video drivers remaining. WHY???!!!
Just thought some might get some chuckles at some of the stories from my work recently.