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Not court mandated, just policy created as a result of a lost case to prevent the same lawsuit from happening again. Annoying policies and procedures and seemingly pointless warnings and buttons usually result from those.
Yeah you need at least 3, one for resumes, banking, and the official things, one for Google because they are everywhere, and at least one throw away. Just use my ISP email for the throw away because they can be created and destroyed on a whim.
If you sign in with [email protected] and then use any random password during the initial set up when it asks to sign into a Microsoft account, it will say there's an issue and then allow you to make a local account.
Well now everyone needs you to authenticate the account so you can’t use one that disappears into the void.
What?
I just use Hide My Email for throwaway accounts since it comes with my Apple One subscription.
You’ve never signed up for something and they insist on sending you an email that you have to click a link in to verify that the email address exists and you actually have access to it to proceed with the account creation??
I was talking about bypassing the set up to create a local account. [email protected] is a Microsoft account that's been closed down. So when you use [email protected] and use any random password, it creates an error and lets you create a local account. You don't even need to make a Microsoft account to use this method. I use throwaway emails to sign up for things all the time.
Oh…. That’s actually pretty cool, I don’t even remember the last time I set up a home edition so I don’t know the tricks there.
Irrelevant in the corporate market. Since everyone uses MS Office, it is a DE FACTO standard. And no one gives two hoots about Office being the least compatible, because there is no need for ISO-compatible software w/r/t Office.
This isn't a problem with Linux. This is a problem with Windows and MacOS where different versions can widely determine software compatibility. All GNU/Linux distros work the same. The only thing stopping you from using software is dependencies, which can change between distros. Even that has been solved with tools like AppImage and Flatpak. You don't see Steam with distros it doesn't work on. As long as your Linux distro is relatively new, it will run the software.
Quoting for hilarity. Yeah, maybe that's the case if you're talking about cutsey Mint vs. PopOS or something. But I promise you anyone who has administered linux in an enterprise environment spit out their drink when they read your statement.
Not even remotely true.
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Yes. That's exactly the problem with Linux. Not being able to run commercial software that every other OS can run. Was there a point in there somewhere? I don't think this statement is the win you think it is.
When you break down a distro you start to see a lot of similarities. How many distros use SystemD? How many use Mesa for graphics? We know they all use the Linux kernel. The things that do change are UI's, settings, preinstalled applications, and defaults. Some distros go much further like Arch which updates often. Arch uses pacman while Debian and Ubuntu based distros use apt-get, but both still function the same. They all use the same dependencies, but not always the same versions.
No it wouldn't. Go back 10 years or more and wifi and sound didn't work unless you did some terminal commands and installed them. Your only ability to run Windows applications on Linux was through Wine, which was stuck at version 2.3 for years because Codeweavers kept all the wine patches to themselves. Mesa graphic drivers were really bad.
Everyone forks Ubuntu because Ubuntu is popular. Same reason why they fork Debian. Linux Mint has a Debian version just in case Ubuntu goes crazy and makes a lot of things proprietary.
Google would have never make a GNU/Linux distro. Android is just Google trying to fight Apple, and ChromeOS is just Google trying to push people towards using the Chrome web browser. No idea where you get the idea that Ubuntu indirectly created Android and ChromeOS.
Why do I care about enterprise workers? Assuming Red Hat here which isn't too different from Fedora, which is in itself an upstream of Red Hat. CentOS is also an upstream of Red Hat. You start to see a pattern here.
I wouldn’t say that… I’ve worked in plenty of places where we paid out the ass for commercial software that only ran on Linux or BSD, one of my first development jobs was for warehousing and purchasing and it was designed for primarily those two.
Because in Enterprise where Linux reigns supreme the compatibility issues are massive and incredibly problematic to deal with. RedHat and Cent are similar but it takes a lot of work to make so something designed for one to work on the other, and within them just moving between versions is painful.
There was a time when Ubuntu was poised to be a serious threat to Microsoft, it had major OEM support with Dell, HP, and IBM backing it, Canonical was firing on all cylinders and Microsoft was actually doing active damage control against it. Then the community got huffy that Ubuntu was too popular and that’s not what Linux was about, they declared them sellouts and it fell apart, overnight it went from being something widely supported in Enterprise and something Microsoft actively feared to a footnote. All it’s resources went from being a unified front to a fractured civil war and honestly Linux as a mainstream consumer product still hasn’t recovered.
How is axing ui customization and the other things I listed protection from lawsuits? Did they ever say that? I would not think them that brazen. This entire narrative smells of white knightery.
No the half assed UI is just Microsoft trying to be Apple and Microsoft at the same time and their own bureaucratic bullshit preventing them from making any progress.
Because it's great, and the design language is consistent between all apps, so their interoperability is infinitely better than Windows, and the UI is consistent across the entire OS. Also Apple's ecosystem and it's synchronicity between all their products makes it extremely convenient to use. As an example, I could have my hands full and take a phone call on my Apple Watch, and then I can pass that phone call to my Mac without ever dropping the call. AirDrop, handoff between devices, and a million other things as well. There's also a lot of built-in features that I don't need to install separate apps for.
That's because whoever was using the Macs are morons. You download the installer pkg from Microsoft's website, run it, then open Teams. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app
I’m sure that integration is all great if corporate security doesn’t lock you out of it all. Even if I was one of those guys willing to buy a personal MacBook to use in parallel with my work one for all the integrated features with my iPhone / whatever, it still doesn’t solve the issues that nothing that interacts directly with Linux is directly portable from local Mac development to the Linux servers. And even for entirely local use cases, the Mac configuration is lacking.
I was simply explaining why people like Macs. I don't do any of that, so it doesn't affect me whatsoever. Since your company does not play well with Macs, it makes sense why you wouldn't use them. Alternatively, you can run Windows or Linux in a VM via Parallels, but it won't be as efficient as using them natively (obviously).
What on earth does this have to do with anything? His point about SMS sucking ass is not the fault of Apple, it's the fault of Google not being able to decide on a standard. They've had 400 different chat apps that when people get used to finally using them, they cancel the service. Case in point: https://killedbygoogle.com/
They made this account on purpose. The account is dead, banned, and can't be used. That's why it comes back with an error when you try to sign in with it. So this is nonsense.
Yes, any locked account will trigger the same thing.
And how exactly is this a selling point in a corporate environment? Imagine explaining this to an end-user, who probably had no input to the Linux choice decision, and probably doesn't know what the word "distro" even mean.
Omg, I hate you. This entire time I have been trying to get games to run in Linux and it's nothing but a hassle and never once considered a VM.. I'm such a fucking idiot.
I highly recommend going the KVM/QEMU/libvirt route. It was relatively easy to get the GPU passthrough working. Again, I was lucky that I had a motherboard that would split the PCI lanes between the 2 connectors. I"ve also heard that ProxMox works well too.
I'm trying this on a laptop with both Intel and a 4070. So I should be good to leave Linux on the Intel card and send the Nvidia one to the VM.
If you're in a corporate environment then you have distros with support like Red Hat. As an end user, Microsoft doesn't provide support. I get more support from visiting Ubuntu's forums or even Linux Mint's compared to anything from Microsoft.
Yea but Apple didn't exactly adopt any standard but their own, and then prevented others from using it other than Apple users.
Except for the Chinese because Apple recently removed Whatsapp from their Chinese App Store. You can do that on Android but it would only slow someone down from installing it.
Why not just side load it on Android?
I think you're missing the point in that any features that doesn't work or as work as well on other not Apple devices is Apple's own fault. SMS sucks but is sucks more when used with Apple devices.
Proxmox does it in their paid channel, not the free one.
Apple adopted SMS as a standard as that was the only actual standard, RCS currently has more than 30 versions and one hell of a flow chart to explain which features are compatible with what versions. RCS is not a unified standard in the traditional sense and the only unified RCS Standard is the one owned and maintained by Google and Android phone manufacturers can’t even agree on supporting that one due do how Google reads every message sent over that protocol. Which they do, Google doesn’t even hide the fact their Jibe servers Man in the Middle each of them and parse them for content.
Because they were ordered by the Chinese government to do so, then they blocked it on the great firewall and started killing the social credit scores of users who used VPN’s to access it. Because surprise VPN’s don’t hide shit if you know the entry and exit nodes there are algorithms for tracing and matching that traffic and it’s more than accurate enough.
Yeah. The whole situation is absolutely asinine and the only company at fault here is Google. It's not Apple's responsibility to fix this cluster that Google created. Maybe Apple adopting the base RCS standard will actually finally force one, unified standard. Time will tell.