This is the other reason WannaCry happened: 97% Windows 7 machines without updates. Because users can't trust Microsoft not to mess them around.
Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
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Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
#182The switch to Linux or other free operating systems is long overdue. If your excuse is hardware support, then (1) your hardware is probably supported these days and (2) you should not buy hardware that is incompatible with the operating system you plan to use. If your excuse is editing MS Office files, LibreOffice supports the formats and works great, and MS Office on Wine is an option. If your excuse is games, then…
> If your excuse is editing MS Office files, LibreOffice supports the formats and works For very small values of "works". I've found that even high school projects turn out to be a bit too much for libre office.
I now consider this an utterly, utterly bogus argument - Google Docs has absolutely dismal docx and xlsx support, and I've never seen anybody but me note it.
This is now a bad excuse, not a reason.
Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, my definition of "works" is that you can read it. Authoring new documents should use ODF. And again, MS Office works on Wine, so you can use that in the worst case.
I have used Linux (Mint) for all my work in college for ~6 months. In my experience, using Word online on Chromium was better than using libre Office locally. Both features and UI wise. Both for reading existing stuffs and for making new docs. I have nothing agains Libre Office but suggesting it can be used as a replacement for MS Office in any capacity is disingenious. Regarding wine, no need for that now that Offic…
> Regarding wine, no need for that now that Office online and Google docs exists.
This is evidence you've never used Google Docs for real work and have never encountered its absolutely dismal docx rendering. I get stuff in Gmail regularly I then have to open in LibreOffice to bloody read.
Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not specific to Linux. I don't even want to calculate the time I've spent on this...in recent Windows. Saying "Windows is only worth it if your time has no value" works the same way, and is just as meaningless. In other words, I know no current OS which doesn't suck :((( Win7 held some promise, as did OS X, and current Linuxes hold some still; but alas, we're still not in plug-and-play land after many decades…
I have had 0 issues with multiple monitors, even with different resoluions and switching from one to the other when moving about with a laptop. This is during the last 10 years with various different machines. It just works. But even if you have issues with Windows, I have zero doubt you would spend more time batteling with Linux. It just doesn't have polish or UX as a primary target. It is wonderful for servers, but…
Interesting, but for your doubt I have the opposite experience. "Windows update came and took away the working drivers again" is a recurring theme, as are Windows networking issues (on many, many different networks). If I want a system that just works, I have one bootable and installable on a USB drive; for endless tinkering (and fighting against "where do we drag you today?"), there's Windows.
Where did that "monitors" issue come in, no idea - typing this on Kubuntu with 3 different displays, also no issues (except for my prankster colleagues unscrewing the video cable).
As someone above noted, I don't care about the OS. I care about the work I do on it - and I have the same Jetbrains tools, the same Firefox, the same Chrome, etc etc etc. Whether the title bar is polished, transparent and the exactly right shade of unmagenta, I don't care.
Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If your excuse is editing MS Office files, LibreOffice supports the formats and works For very small values of "works". I've found that even high school projects turn out to be a bit too much for libre office.
I didn't event understand why people use Excel. There's no ERP software in this company? Excel teach bad habit about having list every where not maintained.
Because it's the best spreadsheet software out there. It really is first-class, and LO Calc has a lot of catching up to do (and they are quite aware of this).
My theory is that Excel's userbase includes the guys who actually sign the cheques, so MS has to get it right.
Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
#186The switch to Linux or other free operating systems is long overdue. If your excuse is hardware support, then (1) your hardware is probably supported these days and (2) you should not buy hardware that is incompatible with the operating system you plan to use. If your excuse is editing MS Office files, LibreOffice supports the formats and works great, and MS Office on Wine is an option. If your excuse is games, then…
But your argument basically boils down to:
Stop using the operating system where everything works: apps, games, hardware, good office package, etc.; rather use an operating system on which debugging to a layman translates to a plane of hell itself, where your hardware may or may not work, and half your game library certainly won't.
I would happily switch to Linux permanently the day the flagship office package UI doesn't resemble Office 97 (the ribbon UI is absolutely fantastic in MS Office), I can get all of my games to work, and I don't need to recompile a kernel to get something as basic as a graphics driver running.
Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
#187I always use Linux as my preferred OS and a "Just Works" OS like macOS or Windows. I run Linux as a dual-boot and I run it in a VM from Windows/mac. It's frustrating because Apple has fallen far behind on hardware I want. I need 3840x2160, a touchscreen, a card reader, both USB 3.0 and 3.1, 16GB of RAM, and full-size HDMI. They've jumped too far ahead into their 'revolutionary' view of the future. I can find better h…
We just need a billionaire benevolent dictator to fund a distribution of Linux and relevant programs that turns it into something stable and user friendly.
Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
#188The switch to Linux or other free operating systems is long overdue. If your excuse is hardware support, then (1) your hardware is probably supported these days and (2) you should not buy hardware that is incompatible with the operating system you plan to use. If your excuse is editing MS Office files, LibreOffice supports the formats and works great, and MS Office on Wine is an option. If your excuse is games, then…
A lot of people who use a computer for work purposes have a number of software applications that they must be able to run reliably in order to do their job. The problem is steadily getting better in some areas, but there are still thousands of specialist applications in service today that only run on Windows. If you are lucky, there may also be Mac versions. The reality is that it's often not feasible to only run FOS…
Wine has been up to real-world commercial use for at least a decade, in my experience. It's more surprising these days when stuff doesn't work in Wine than when it does. (.NET support is still annoyingly imperfect.)
Sponsoring getting a vertical market app working 100% in Wine is unlikely to be cheaper than cleaning up after WannaCry's competently-written successors.
Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
#189I always use Linux as my preferred OS and a "Just Works" OS like macOS or Windows. I run Linux as a dual-boot and I run it in a VM from Windows/mac. It's frustrating because Apple has fallen far behind on hardware I want. I need 3840x2160, a touchscreen, a card reader, both USB 3.0 and 3.1, 16GB of RAM, and full-size HDMI. They've jumped too far ahead into their 'revolutionary' view of the future. I can find better h…
We just need a billionaire benevolent dictator to fund a distribution of Linux and relevant programs that turns it into something stable and user friendly.
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Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
#190Does anyone know a good updated firewall whitelist to allow just Windows Updates and nothing else?
Yes. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned here. https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d...
Comes in several formats: hosts, firewall, openwrt, dnscrypt. You can choose telemetry, update and extra. Has ip rules aswell as DNS rules.
I am actually thinking of writing a modular openwrt luci plugin to make it easy to add to your router as it is only effective on router level as other have mentioned here.
It's updated regularly, tested and one of the best lists out there, a clean copy and paste works into firewall rules as and there is nothing to install.
Happy user. MS probably really dislikes this because they are adding new domains serving the same function almost every update.