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You for sure feels so good being this helpful. But TIN really don’t understand SHT if you use so many Technical terms(TT)

But there’s a solution in brackets I just presented, that’s commonly accepted in academia if you still want to use TT like that

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Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Forgive me for not explaining better. Here are the terms potentially needing explanation.

Provisioning is just initial system setup, but usually implies a more regimented or repeatable process.

Virtual Machine (VM) snapshots are like a save state in a game, and are often used to reset a virtual machine to a particular known-working condition.

Preboot Execution Environment (PXE, aka ‘network boot’) is a network adapter feature that lets you boot a physical machine from a hosted network image rather than the usual installation on locally attached storage. It’s probably tucked away in your BIOS settings, but many computers have the feature since it’s a common requirement in commercial deployments. As with the VM snapshot described above, a PXE image is typically a known-working state that resets on each boot.

Non-virtualized means not using hardware virtualization, and I meant specifically not running inside a virtual machine.

Local-only means without a network or just not booting from a network-hosted image.

Telemetry refers to the data harvesting apparatus. Most software has it. Windows has a lot. Telemetry isn’t necessarily bad but it is easily abused by data-hungry corporations like MS, so disabling it is a precaution.

MS = Microsoft

OSS = Open Source Software

Group policies are administrative settings in Windows that control standards (for stuff like security, power management, licensing, software and file system access, etc.) for user groups on a machine or network. Most users stick with the defaults but you can edit these yourself for a greater degree of control.

Many of these concepts are IT-related, as are the use-cases I had in mind, but the software is simple to use if you pick one of the premade playbooks. (The AtlasOS playbook is popular among gamers, for example.)
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