It's good to know I'm probably saving hundreds of dollars (if a home user can even buy a single enterprise license without too much hassle) for basically the same pain.
[1] https://superuser.com/questions/973009/conclusively-stop-wak...
No, it's really not.
> You can disable these “features” on enterprise
Or are you saying that it's not good that they can be disabled (perhaps because people get lazy, run out-of-date vulnerable software, and end up infected with ransomware or part of a botnet?)
Now I've come to your comment and am now realizing that apparently there is no built in functionality to prevent forced update/reboots (while connected to the internet) in Windows 10.
I not crazy anti-Microsoft, but that's absurd and honestly aside from gaming (which I don't have a gaming PC anyways) I miss nothing from Windows.
I see comments about Linux on random laptops, I've only have had good experiences with it generally. I'm not a power user. I've run at least one distro or another on a random cheap netbook, a 2005-08 Sony laptop, a low end and higher end Lenovo laptops, and honestly other than the one I'm on right now I've not had the problems people talk about it (something related to the CPU was crashing the system, found a solution online and everything is good now). Maybe I'm just lucky.
And there is nothing to disable the shortcuts or installation of silly program like candy crush.
I remember reading something about a Windows 10 edition without all this crap, but it was only for very big accounts and with a specific contract with Microsoft.
I don't want come across as trying to convert or be rude, but what does Windows provide, both home users and businesses, that open source operating systems are unable to do?
As someone just kind of starting out, is Windows promising for future career building?
I understand backwards compatibly and larger selection of games, and that hardware manufacturers will provide software.
If you look at the big IT stories around OSS (e.g. LiMux; in Switzerland there was a similar story in Solothurn), you'll find that the reason for those failures usually comes down to people refusing to give OSS the benefit of the doubt, often combined with incompetent project management.
* Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update
Do not include drivers with Windows Update = Enabled
Configure Automatic Updates = Enabled = 2
* Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Defer Upgrades and Updates
Select when Feature Updates are received = Current Branch for Business = 365 daysNow it's literally the opposite.
My wife's laptop runs OpenSUSE (or maybe Manjaro, I can't remember what I put on there after she got upset with Mint for whatever reason; whatever it was, the updates work and she can get whatever software she wants to work without my intervention, because I haven't heard about it for almost a year.) My mom's still cursing Windows 10 almost daily, and still bemoans the loss of Windows 7 (lol). But she's literally terrified to let me install anything else, even after I've shown her how easy it is to use. Microsoft has completely removed her ability to choose something else. She trusts them more than me. It's scary.
Plus if you're at Uni you likely DO have access to Windows 10 Education Edition which is a version of Enterprise without several of the things you complained about.
Windows 10 Education Edition does not seem to be available in the software repository of my Uni. Which obnoxious features do you say are absent in this version, compared to Enterprise?
The bundled games and other apps aren't provided in the Education edition.
Do you mean literally? You've removed candy crush from the start menu and windows put it there again? Or it was something on microsoft store live tile? Right click, more, Turn Live Tile off.
In a previous role at a very security conscious company I designed and built a malware analysis platform built on Linux with KVM VMs. Some of these needed to be Windows because of certain software we ran, and we needed to be sure they were fully patched and free of any malware from a previous run. So snapshots were no good, we needed to built new VMs from the Windows equivalent of a kickstart ( autoattend.xml). This worked fine for a couple of months.
Until Microsoft decided that their 'Professional' SKU shouldn't do this. So suddenly our auto builds stopped working as they were waiting for product keys that we already supplied.We could have gone to Enterprise, with the associated volume licensing agreement, but it was ridiculous and let a sour taste in our mouths. All this time the Linux VMs happily rebuilt in less than 2 minutes.
I've literally talked today to a company who want me to move their large Windows deployment to Linux for the same reason. Nobody wants to be held hostage to a supplier.
It's doubly amazing that this happens while Win7 is still more than usable.
It's pretty bad at most tasks except gaming.
The guy from the article is still in the honeymoon phase. Wait until he tries to move all his files from one disk to another, zipping them to a pendrive in batches, and restoring them on his shiny new system. And doing this in a multi-tasking way as this is time-consuming. Simple task? When he is done, when trying to open a file, he will find the destination folder is full of corrupted files.
Stunned? This was true 15 years ago, and as recent as 2 months ago (on a range of distros, last one Ubuntu). How serious a system is that? I'd say it disqualifies the system for all uses.
Regardless, as a desktop foundation Linux is a dream that had a place in time. Permissions, usernames, Posix filetimes and C itself are all non-starters in this era. They bog down trivial tasks, but also development and distribution, to the point of provoking a survivors-bias so bad that those survivors will die blind, swearing the OS is sliced bread and that all of humanity missed out. Bash is their unsung hero.
Don't listen. It's poison our community is full of. The Linux folks just want more help to put out all the fires, and, if need be, fool you into believing their gospel.
Reality is: heaven will never come to pass. Linux hurts more than it gives back. It's a brain drain. It's time to die. Please die.