I get what you are saying, and Windows is absolutely frustrating at times but so is Linux and especially MacOS.

I’m no developer but I do really get that Windows isn’t the best suited OS for some development work, but calling it barely usable in general is just ridiculous.

It’s certainly not impossible to troubleshoot either. You just need to learn it, like how you have to learn any OS.

I won’t argue that it isn’t rubbish, that’s fair enough. There is a lot of bullshit with Windows and Microsoft

The main reason Linux clients are largly missing in most IT environments is that managing it on a scale comparable to Windows clients is hard. Afaik there isn’t a great way to push out configuration, policies, certificates. And making it all be seamless.

Unmanaged windows clients might be quite bad, but together with stuff like active directory it just works really well for authentication and is part of a good ecosystem that in general just works. The various admin tools for Active Directory are quite annoying to use since they haven’t been developed in years and are missing obvious features. Fortunately you can just use Powershell.

I really really wish Linux were better in these enterprise aspects, I wish we could pivot more to Linux for all users or at least for those that don’t need specialized software like CAD. There is a large possibility that the majority of our users would riot if we did that though.

For the record I personally like Linux a lot and would absolutely run exclusively Linux if windows wasn’t my work. I will probably get my home pc on Linux someday, but I haven’t yet because it’s simply just so much easier for me to fix Windows when it breaks compared to fixing Linux which always turns into a huge rabbit hole for me. It’s also just in general annoying to switch OS since I have TBs of data on it.

It isn’t about laziness it’s about principles.

I simply won’t argue with someone that refuses to provide their sources. Doesn’t matter if they say something dubious about Windows, say that vaccines cause autism, or that the earth is flat.

Yes absolutely! Active directory is very powerful

Your claim, your burden.

FYI: Recall is delayed and will only work on specific arm computers anyway. So you weren’t in at any immediate risk. Not arguing against installing Linux though. That’s great!

I work in IT supporting windows (server primarily) and from my perspective it does work pretty well. We have around 1500 Windows clients and around 400-500 Windows servers and it works pretty damn well. Sure problems happen, in general it does work. Now, I don’t work in T1 support so I’m not sure how often people have problems but I would definitely hear about it if it were as bad as some on Lemmy claim.

Our Windows Servers in general work great, I don’t think we have noticeably more problems with them compared to our Linux servers which we have maybe 20% more of.

Remember that pretty much the entire enterprise world use primarily or exclusively Windows clients and that would absolutely not be the case if they were “held together with string and ready to crumble randomly.” That would simply not be acceptable in companies which could lose millions in just lost productivity.

I use Powershell a lot at work, and I really like it. Especially compared to bash which gives me headaches when reading.

But yeah install-module and uninstall-module can sometimes be quirky. The easiest solution is to remove the files for the directory.

it turns out that one user (Admin) simply cannot see another user’s mounted share - has microsoft ever heard of the concept of “permission denied”?

I’m pretty sure the reason is that because the share is mounted using the users account and doesn’t affect anything else. It kinda makes sense for me because that is just the way Windows works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Two users can have different mapping so giving a permission denied doesn’t make a lot of sense since it simply doesn’t exist for the user.

It’s very easy to run things like scripts in the background. Showing a command/powershell windows because of a drive mapping script is amateurish (and very annoying). Usually scripts like those are run on logon.

We have an automation server at work that runs a bunch of scripts for all kinds of stuff. It just uses task scheduler. Hiding the script output is as simple as telling it too. We have a lot of servers at work that run important production shit interactively. So someone has to logon the server and start the problem.

It’s utterly disgusting. I recently introduced them to NSSM which can run simple programs as a service, which entirely solves the problem. But it’s bizarre that no one else has suggested that before, or found some other solution.

Fortunately, I’m not responsible for prod applications running on those servers, it just really fucks with our patching procedures.

Sending everything users do and type (including passwords) back to Microsoft. It’s called spyware when other companies do it.

Do you have any proof that Microsoft keylogs you? That’s quite a serious claim.

I’m just doubting their motives, I’m not judging.

Piracy is great and so is preservation. It’s just very unlikely that OP is doing actual preservation (remember that they talk about top gear and not some underground music album or something)

Yeah, obviously that’s the actual reason.

Of course the streaming service rotate their content. That’s kinda the entire point.

Preservation is important but an amateur that puts a movie on their Plex/jellyfin server isn’t important.

Assuming the media actually wasn’t available (of course top gear is available) on the trackers they use, sonarr wouldn’t help. Sonarr still needs to look through trackers/indexers, it just might do it faster.

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If it’s for preservation they should probably look into tape or optical storage. Realistically your friend is not doing it for preservation considering that there are way better equipped individuals and organisations for that (the BBC for example).

I really don’t get why people have started to say that they only do it for preservation like they run a museum or an archive. Come on man, that movie is available literally everything and your hard drive will fuck up the storage of the files long before humanity losses access to that movie.

I download movies because I like free movies.

Yeah, Eriksson too. Both pretty much abandoned their consumer phone business. They have pivoted to afaik mostly telecommunications infrastructure. But both companies do a bunch of other stuff.

Nokia and Eriksson were really happy when Huawei started being kicked out of 5G infrastructure.

I suspect renaming the process itself was deemed an unnecessary risk, which I would agree with. Even if I agree that it looks stupid.

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Or they are simply overworked like most IT teams.

Managing Linux devices is more complicated since it was very poor Intune and GPO support so you basically have to have another separate system for that.

We only have Linux workstations at work because a dev outside IT, setup their own Linux platform and does it support it. IT support won’t help with any problems though.

The only way Linux workstations are officially supported is that they have certificates for 802.1x.

If the person that supports the Linux platform quits I’m not sure anyone else could take up the task. The Linux sysadmins might but I doubt they have the time for that.

A few people also setup their own Linux computers and abused a flaw in the 802.1x. implementation that allowed them to use Ethernet with a username and password instead of a certificate. That is fortunately fixed now.

If it comes to that point for video games, I don’t really think it matters much. If AI is used or not since it would be a part of any normal working procedure.