Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

• bizarroland@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are vast differences between Windows home and Windows pro and Windows Enterprise editions as far as how easy it is to control and block off the annoyance ware that Microsoft builds into it.

  If you use deployment software to roll out your images after standardizing them and have a set image that you can deploy to a thousand computers as easily as one then it's very simple to sign in with a local domain account and disable the windows things through a group policy and just start rocking and rolling whereas your average Windows home user is not going to even have access to GPO and we'll have to tediously for each and every single computer every single time they reset it redo all of the things to disable all of Microsoft's crap activation.

  They are not entirely different but definitely distinct versions of Windows and dismissing the home and non-enterprise users that their experience is inferior to your experience on the Enterprise side is what I'm saying is disingenuous

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  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve found the more you mess with defaults the more likely you’ll encounter problems.

    The article author was talking about their work PC anyways.

    Gpo/Intune just allows you make mistakes at scale.

    The author was talking about their work computer suddenly not booting up the next day. The windows version differences wouldn’t cause this.

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