Untill we have reviews, we can’t decide on what is a good deal or not.

That deserves a slap

My past role was a combined role of these:

Helpdesk technician
VIP technician
Linux system administrator

We didn’t effectively administrate the Linux environment, I was the only linux admin at the company, and I wasn’t even doing it full time.

In an ideal world I agree with you, but when resources are limited, running a separate environment is not allways realistic.

A machine that takes extra time and skills to manage?

IT guy here, if we gave developers the option to exclude whatever the hell they wanted from AV scanning it would just mean that we would end up with computers where the entire C: drive would be excluded.

No, can’t have that.

So what should a decent IT department do to give developers the access they need to do their job while maintaining a decent level of security?

Well, the least bad solution I have worked with was to have a non generic path that was excluded by policy.

Something like C:\Excluded

The directory was excluded from AV scan and allowed in policy, the user could put what they needed there and it would be fine.

I agree, it is a slight annoyance, but that is all it is.

This is about evening the playing field, making other mapping services having a less difficult way to compete

Talk about hyperbole…

Google Maps is over!

No, the integration in the search results when searching the web might be gone, but you can still go to https://maps.google.com/ and find what you need.

This is not a significant shift with how we are interacting with Google, it is a minor change.

Calm down.

One.

If I try to play mutiple at the same time I have found that when I alt+tab from one to the over, my progress in the first one grinds to a halt

If you have a free PCIE slot, you can just get a SATA controller card.

I see other’s talk about an m.2 -> SATA adapter, but I just don’t see the point if you have a free PCIE slot

Tell me that the entity overseeing this infrastructure replied with “lol no”

That is a very fair point that I didn’t consider

Seems odd to claim that an action game with RPG elements is the complete opposite of the RPG genre itself…

But eh, it is their oppinion, not fact.

Linux is amazing, I use it regularly for diferent projects.

I even dailied Ubuntu 15 years ago, but then switched back to Windows for gaming and work.

This is really the wrong sub thread to discuss this, this was my reply to someone laughing at the concept of Windows skills.

As for you comment, I am glad that it works like that for you, it doesn’t for me.

It doesn’t work like that for me I am afraid.

Powershell is very useful to use at home, maybe not in those exact tasks, but it is a Windows skill.

Sigh, why, why do you do feel the need to put other’s down over something as irrelevant as an operating system?

But since Windows require zero skills, then even you may stand a chance to solve the following tasks that I have had to deal with within Windows.

1. List all users in the local admin group of all workstations, if a group is part of the local admin group, expand it and list individual users, oh and some users/groups are still on an old domain.
2. Whitelist a new USB device in GPO.
3. Make a report of all computers in the organization, get the current system model number, memory, storage space, free storage space, check weather or not the computer is ready for Windows 11, sort the list by department and primary user.

I would if I could, but I work with Windows and if I migrate to Linux at home, my skills in Windows would dimminish