Comment on Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot
just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 days agoUhhhh yeah there is? You can customize any user profile and centrally control it just as you can on Windows. You can even PXE boot all workstations with new images whenever you want instead of relying on individual machines to issue updates, something that Windows isn’t capable of.
Not sure where you got this idea, but you’re misinformed.
jj4211@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You can’t to the same degree. If you let the user use a typical desktop environment like gnome or plasma., then they can set their wallpaper.
Now if you want to make a kiosk thing, so much easier in Linux. But if you want to have a general purpose desktop experience but restrict stupid stuff like wallpaper, windows has got you.
I would rather use and administer Linux systems at scale any day, but if you hated your users and wanted to lock personalization, then Windows has done the work to enable that.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Sorry, ma dude. This is 100% incorrect. Been doing this a long time, and have managed massive numbers of desktop sessions for enterprise end users.
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dconf. It’s the tool that manages the underlying configuration engine for Gnome specifically.Outside of the granularity there, you could also just lock everything to a group and exclude logged in users from that group. That’s a very simplistic way of explaining itz but achieves the exact same thing. You build a base image with only the apps the user needs, set execution to an inclusive group that user belongs, and everything else to some other groups, and there you go. Dead simple.
Of course that’s not how you’d do it for an org with thousands of users, but you get the point.