I need to vent about Windows. I want workplaces to use Linux.
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In Linux everything is a file. So modifying files is all you really need. The hardest part is how to handle mobile endpoints like laptops, that don't have always on connections. Ansible pull mode is what we were looking at in a POC, with triggers on VPN connection. Note we have a large Linux server footprint already managed by ansible, so it isn't a large lift for us.
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Your complaints are certainly valid, but the IT of your company should be applying Group Policies to address some of these!
Enterprise version is also more stable than the goddamn "you are the guinea pig" spyware Home and Pro versions. O&O ShutUp10++ for those... Hilariously, they are a Microsoft Partner according to their website; some partnership that is when an automatic update from Microsoft can undo anything their software does.
I'm by no means an expert but a power user... I saw the writing on the wall years ago and now have only one Windows machine explicitly for some hardware that have no Linux drivers but is otherwise very nice and useful.
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No offense, but some folks apparently felt the need to downvote you because modern GNU/Linux is a copy of Windows, which is a copy of Macintosh, which is a copy of Xerox Alto.
GNU/Linux is missing important stuff because manufacturers only pay someone to write drivers for Windows and sometimes Mac, because those are the dominant "normal user" OSes, because those are the OSes that manufacturers support...
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AutoCAD might be widely used at the lower end, where many just create a sketch and extrude it. But that is no good for car or aircraft design, where you need high end smooth shape commands, and high productivity workflows.
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Or bad Dell drivers, or Microsoft software. Not my picture, take with a grain of salt as they say.
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Re Microsoft in general. I had to install Powershell on Linux recently to get a work related task done. It was packaged on the Arch User Repository, so easily done.
Got the task done and went to uninstall Powershell and realised there that the installed size was 186 MB. Checked the installed size of Linux-zen kernel and modules: 143 MB. So this tiny MS command-line utility was heftier than the kernel and drivers for all supported hardware. How do they even manage that?
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Some years ago I was working on something, and took a break for dinner. When I got back, Windows had rebooted for updates and I'd lost some work.
I run a server in my house so I set up MECM and haven't had an issue since.
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Bullshit. https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html?vendor_id=33
And that's just the kernel, not the hundreds of packages that make an OS.
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I'm happy my company basically issued a ban on Windows without pre-authorization. We're entirely a macOS and Linux shop.
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sure. those are reasons it's missing some stuff. But I was referring to other important things also missing from Windows. Which is what Linux seems to follow. Linux has a great opportunity to break away, and come up with something really good. But sadly, there will be reasons not to, I suspect.
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Only reasons I can think of are time and money. We sadly lost DivestOS and their projects... How about software patents, which of course are bullshit; but even illegitimate threats can ruin small businesses and lone programmers who don't have the time and money to defend themselves.
