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Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by zanny »

dingo_bat wrote: post #72
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…

> 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'm not sure if MS isn't still sabotaging support, but Europe did force them to implement exporting to the open document formats. You should be able to convert all your docx / pptx / xlsx files to odt / ods / odp before switching, or just using Wine as a conversion tool.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by soundslikebull »

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 sounds like the problem is that you didn't set your client's system up properly for PCI compliance. Don't blame Microsoft for your technical incompetence!

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by wanderyng1 »

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…

I feel your pain, it's a nightmare for HIPAA compliance as well.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by zanny »

eropple wrote: post #73
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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've been using Linux as a daily driver for fifteen years. I have shot my share of trouble and the next two guys' too. It's not a good experience . It's bad . Even when things aren't breaking left, right, and sideways (which, to be clear, definitely happens less often today than five years ago, with the corollary that that breakage is usually something a mere mortal can't do too much about), it feels kinda...well, sh…

I used to have these problems, but since about 2013 I've just had the same Arch install with Plasma on my desktop and notebook and they have just worked. Update once a week, watch the mailing list for breakage notifications (about once a quarter) and have a boring desktop experience while I get work done. Along the way, my GPU (290) got much faster on the Mesa driver, the kernel has developed new features, btrfs has been stable as hell for me for years, and if I ever need anything I just yaourt it and its there.

Since you used KDE as an example, maybe you switched too soon. A lot of people did. The recent Plasma 5 release was exactly like the KDE 4 release - it took a good 5 - 6 major releases before stability and feature parity with the predecessor were reached. But if you switched from KDE 3 to 4.5, or from 4 to 5.6, the new desktop worked fine. Were on Plasma 5.9 now and its boring. In a good way. It is stable, it works, the features are great, the looks are excellent, it gets out of my way and I can get work done on it very well.

Linux is boring. And thats a good thing. I can easily buy a system76 / Dell computer that runs Ubuntu, install whatever I want on it, and have a crisp experience without issue now, unless I go looking for trouble on the bleeding edge of hardware or software.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by dvtv75 »

sathackr wrote: post #52
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…

Been on Ubuntu for a bit over a year now. Steam works great, and LibreOffice has been good enough to get the job done. I run Google Earth Pro and Sketchup in Wine, even World of Warcraft runs quite well in Wine. I had a ton of issues with Wine until I found PlayOnLinux. Things still don't quite 'just work' -- but I've been able to use way more than I could before I found it. KSP and WoW are my two big games, and they…

I had never heard of PlayOnLinux until now. Installed - thanks for the tip!

KSP and Rimworld are my two big games, at least KSP will be again when I get a replacement video card.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by sathackr »

userbinator wrote: post #80
terminado wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LTSB (aka: long-term servicing branch) I'm not sure if it's comedic or tragic that the version so very many users would want most, is not only the version with the worst name, but also the version Microsoft discourages people from adopting. Critical patch support, infrequent updates, and excludes crufty bloatware. What's not to like?

but also the version Microsoft discourages people from adopting. Not surprising, because MS wants to push all the features (and ads, telemetry, etc.) to users regardless of whether they actually want them. Indeed I wish MS would just keep supporting XP as the "Windows LTSB" with nothing but critical security patches, and keep doing it until the OS becomes nearly invulnerable to remote attacks.

> Indeed I wish MS would just keep supporting XP as the "Windows LTSB" with nothing but critical security patches, and keep doing it until the OS becomes nearly invulnerable to remote attacks.

I lol'd. You'd probably be pretty safe with Windows 3.11, Trumpet Winsock, and Netscape Navigator.

edit: so long as nobody got your public IP and used Winnuke on you.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by weeks »

userbinator wrote: post #80
terminado wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LTSB (aka: long-term servicing branch) I'm not sure if it's comedic or tragic that the version so very many users would want most, is not only the version with the worst name, but also the version Microsoft discourages people from adopting. Critical patch support, infrequent updates, and excludes crufty bloatware. What's not to like?

but also the version Microsoft discourages people from adopting. Not surprising, because MS wants to push all the features (and ads, telemetry, etc.) to users regardless of whether they actually want them. Indeed I wish MS would just keep supporting XP as the "Windows LTSB" with nothing but critical security patches, and keep doing it until the OS becomes nearly invulnerable to remote attacks.

Playing whack-a-mole with memory corruption vulnerabilities isn't how you create a secure operating systems.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by labcomputer »

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…

Wouldn't call centers for online retailers need compliant desktops? How do they deal with customers who prefer to call an agent and read their card number over the phone?

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by hobarrera »

labcomputer wrote: post #88
PeterisP wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Wouldn't call centers for online retailers need compliant desktops? How do they deal with customers who prefer to call an agent and read their card number over the phone?

I wouldn't assume these sort of desktops would even run windows at all.

A large BestBuy-like place here in Argentina has their sales terminals boot over PXE into some form of *nix straight to the sales systems with no real internet.

A bank nearby boots the account executive's systems right into KDE, on some pretty locked machines.

Windows 10 in any of those scenarios would be a laugh, I can't even being to think why someone would pick it for anything that requires security audits.

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings

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Post by nitrogen »

sathackr wrote: post #76
benjaminjackman wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched about 10 years ago. Before that I was windows 100% on desktop. I had similar issues at first but gradually became pretty comfortable with Ubuntu and Linux in general. Some things are more of a pain and may always be in Linux but overall the experience for me has been that things have been getting easier with time. I think that for better or worse as more applications move to the web the change will be easi…

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 think PuTTY for Linux will show a menu where you can access settings if you press Alt-Space (and that key isn't bound by your WM). You can change the copy/paste behavior in the PuTTY settings before you open the initial connection and save it as the default configuration (also scrollback settings).

Use K3B to burn CDs and turn on Burnfree/whatever it's called.

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