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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (41 children)

I was already dubious about upgrading from 10 to 11 and this is final straw. I will have to look at Linux options and see if my Windows-only programs will run effectively under WINE.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (26 children)

I'm fucking out. I do a lot of basic IT work, including many fresh installs and new domain users, and I am so godamn sick of having to go through 5 dialogues every single time I open edge. For the local account. Then the domain admin account. Then the domain user account. Fuck this company.

As soon as I can afford to get an AMD GPU or do a swap with someone for my 1070, I'm gone. I used to love computers, but dealing with windows even on a home PC with no "problems", it just feels like more work.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (10 children)

You can disable or streamline that stuff with either group policy or registry keys.

I used to do the same work (several years ago) and I started researching fixes and writing scripts to speed up my work.

Make a to do list of what your computer setup process is. Figure out the earliest you can launch a script (netshare or usb). Then start writing scripts for your tasks.

Installing apps, file transfers and system configs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That seems like a lot of convoluted bullshit just to get your os to work, considering you need to update the whole thing every week.

You sure you haven't tried arch? Openbsd? You sound like a typical user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about supporting an American enterprise environment that handles medical patient data. No Linux workstations really. Easier to comply with HIPAA that way.

Is it convoluted BS? Sure why not. But Microsoft services are really sticky once you get integrated at a large scale (5k workstations plus over 100 servers).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

And when they withdraw support for that feature, do you think laws will cause all the computers to crash?

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