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Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

int_19h wrote: post #121
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #77

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It's not really my thing, but Plasma seems like a really solid desktop. What are your complaints with it? And I'll raise this point again: >You and people like you are the reason that it's not as good as it could be. I use Linux as my daily driver and it works extremely well. But if you continue to let it languish with a small market share because you can't be bothered to troubleshoot it for 10 minutes or maybe live…

> Using proprietary operating systems because Linux isn't there yet is a great way to keep Linux from getting there. It's a chicken and egg problem. What would you prefer: getting your privacy thourougly invaded by a proprietary operating system, or being there to help Linux gain market share and tip the scales? Even if it's not perfect, it's more than enough, and supporting it is the best choice. The vast majority o…

I'm not talking to the vast majority of people. I'm talking to Hacker News readers. The sort of people who would care, and who would be technically capable of running the system (though to be quite honest, if it weren't for the mental leap of installing something new, the "vast majority" would have no problem running a modern Linux distro). The Hacker News crowd is also full of developers and, well, hackers. The sorts of people who, if they used free operating systems as their daily driver, would be capable of investing in it and improving it until it reaches the potential to have an impact on the market. I struggle to refer to the readers of HN as "hackers", though, considering many of them are the sort of people who would write comments like yours in defense of Windows and excusing away their proprietary behavior.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by jhasse »

viraptor wrote: post #226
jhasse wrote: post #199

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> the flagship office package UI doesn't resemble Office 97 (the ribbon UI is absolutely fantastic in MS Office) It's being worked on: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/how-to-enable-libreoffice... > I can get all of my games to work Many games don't port to Linux until all users have switched. It's a chicken-egg problem :( > I don't need to recompile a kernel to get something as basic as a graphics driver running.…

The games are getting better. Just over half of my steam library works at the moment. Not sure when it happened but over the last 2 years I noticed more and more things being available. It's no longer just low quality indie stuff.

If any Blizzard game would be ported, that would truly be a milestone (StarCraft 2 with WINE is a lot slower on my machine).

Also many games require nVidia drivers or AMD's open source driver (e.g. Life is strange). I'm using a 144 Hz monitor and therefore need touse AMDGPU Pro (AMDGPU has a bug with >120 Hz: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93826 ).

But you're right: It's getting better :) For example Rocket League and Dota 2 work great.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by taspeotis »

posguy wrote: post #159
hvidgaard wrote: post #143

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In all fairness, writing in C# and targeting SQL Server is not locking you into Windows unless you use WPF or other Windows specific parts of the framework.

O_o Sure, you can technically run C# on a Linux box (eg: Debian), but the last few times I had to (to interface with some point of sale hardware) I literally ended up just rewriting the driver in python. No desire to maintain something so foreign to the rest of the codebase when python can handle serial devices just fine. Wrt not using a database connector, just why? Your literally locking yourself to the SQL Server…

Minor point but it's four cores now [1].

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/sql-server/sql-server-2016-e...

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by davidgerard »

davidgerard wrote: post #188
sjellis wrote: post #141

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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.

> unlikely to be cheaper

I meant, of course, unlikely to be more expensive. Gah!

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by davidgerard »

jvdl wrote: post #186
ddevault wrote: post #47

The 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 doe…

Here is your ribbon, sir. See you on the light side!

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/NotebookBar

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by [deleted] »

PeterisP wrote: post #55
DonkeyChan wrote: post #15

MS Support consistently and repeatedly told me that enterprise allowed me to disable this stuff. If I can't control the egress then I can't verify PCI compliance. I've already had to revert a client to Win 7 because they failed a PCI compliance audit using Win 10 Enterprise. Which, by the way, is very expensive for small businesses. Win 10 Enterprise isn't viable for business. I have a bunch of small business clients…

It's kind of interesting, is it common for you to have Win10 systems in scope for PCI compliance? It seems unusual to me if any desktop systems are anywhere close to card data, IMHO usually you'd have in scope only a bunch of servers (so, Linux or Windows Server for normal businesses who don't have a reason to wrestle mainframes) in an isolated network, but most of company computers including all the user desktops sh…

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Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by DKnoll »

jsjsjsjsjsjs wrote: post #205
sqldba wrote: post #119

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From what I've heard from people running LTSB it's absolutely awful. Driver support is abysmal and lots of desired Windows features don't exist on it. There's apparently some new LTSB on its way but this aside it is not the panacea this thread makes it out to be.

I am person who runs LTSB used for coding/rce/gaming. Everything runs without a glitch after initial setup. At start we indeed have to do some stupid things as restoring windows photo viewer because images open with paint, but its way better than what "full" version offers.

I would consider that a bonus and install IrfanView.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by sathackr »

vetinari wrote: post #203
sathackr wrote: post #76

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I don't mind the questions at all. I hope you didn't want the TL;DR version. Some of my pain points. Many probably have solutions, but I'm stuck between spending time dealing with it the way it is, and spending time finding a solution. These are not in any particular order: 1. Serial communication(terminal, for interfacing with console ports). I tried a few programs that didn't really work right away, and settled on…

I won't address everything, just a few tips: 1) sounds definitely like a permission problem. Is your user member of the dialout group? If not, add it there, re-login and try again. You should not be forced to use the root user. 2) Exchange is a problem. There are several solutions, none of them is all that great: a) use Evolution, b) use Thunderbird with the proprietary plugin, c) use a proxy like davmail (davmail.sf…

> 3) There is Earth Pro for Linux too

Sure enough: google-earth-pro-stable - Explore, search and discover the planet

sudo apt-get install google-earth-pro-stable and voila.

I can't believe I've suffered for this long.

Thanks a million!

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by eropple »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #68
eropple wrote: post #66

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> your hardware is probably supported these days True. Support has gotten significantly better. It's not perfect, and the failure cases are much worse than Windows (and somewhat worse than OS X), but it's gotten better. > you should not buy hardware that is incompatible with the operating system you plan to use This is where you start going off the rails. People did buy hardware that was compatible with the operating…

>This is where you start going off the rails. People did buy hardware that was compatible with the operating system they do use. It is super presumptuous and weird to try this sleight-of-hand in your argument. Make new purchases more intelligently. >You are now off the rails and airborne. Excel is still largely unsupported and breaks nontrivial spreadsheets. The UI is also, IMO, a huge step backwards from Office and…

(I don't know why you were flagged, FWIW, but I vouched you out. I think you're wrong, but I don't think this should be flagged.)
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