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My main job responsibility is research programming (Matlab/Python), so I consider myself fairly computer-literate, but about 10% of my time is spent as a sysadm

My main job responsibility is research programming (Matlab/Python), so I consider myself fairly computer-literate, but about 10% of my time is spent as a sysadmin, and Group Policy is super confusing to me. I have no idea if what I put down is being applied or not, or where to look for something. It's far from straightforward. Maintaining our openSUSE Linux cluster is far more intuitive to me.

gruez 8y ago
>I have no idea if what I put down is being applied or not I'm not sure what you mean here. Obviously not all settings can be applied immediately, so I'm not sure how that's any different from modifying a random .conf file and not seeing the changes in real time. > or where to look for something google? At least all the setting are in one place and obeys some hierarchy.
wayneftw 8y ago
OK, I assume that I should restart or at least log out and back in when I change system settings. Usually I'm following instructions that I found online and they tell you what to do there. I definitely don't go into Group Policy and edit things all willy-nilly. This seems to be the case on many OSes. I was documenting my workstation setup recently and I'll share one entry here: ### Firefox opening to manjaro.org instead of new-tab - Look for settings in Firefox to disable this. No findeee! - Search the net to discover others talking about this. Many say just uninstall `manjaro-browser-settings`. - Remove `manjaro-browser-settings`. - Failure: Firefox still behaves the same. - Decide to uninstall Firefox and reinstall it. However, I will install Chrome first. - Use _Add/Remove Software_ app preferences to enable AUR repository, then refresh databases. - Install Chrome from AUR. It works. - Uninstall Firefox and reinstall it. - Success: Firefox no longer opens to manjaro.org. - (There might have been a reboot somewhere in there - it doesn't hurt to sprinkle them in randomly when practicing voodoo computing!) Also it seems like with this OS, if I don't reboot after an update or changing certain settings - things start breaking. Maybe one day, we'll have the perfect OS! But as far as I know it doesn't exist yet. :)
- PascLeRasc 8y ago
  I realize this is a few days late, but does your Firefox not have this in the settings? https://imgur.com/a/1reMLvt https://imgur.com/a/1reMLvt

gruez 8y ago

>I have no idea if what I put down is being applied or not I'm not sure what you mean here. Obviously not all settings can be applied immediately, so I'm not sure how that's any different from modifying a random .conf file and not seeing the changes in real time. > or where to look for something google? At least all the setting are in one place and obeys some hierarchy.

wayneftw 8y ago

OK, I assume that I should restart or at least log out and back in when I change system settings. Usually I'm following instructions that I found online and they tell you what to do there. I definitely don't go into Group Policy and edit things all willy-nilly. This seems to be the case on many OSes. I was documenting my workstation setup recently and I'll share one entry here: ### Firefox opening to manjaro.org instead of new-tab - Look for settings in Firefox to disable this. No findeee! - Search the net to discover others talking about this. Many say just uninstall `manjaro-browser-settings`. - Remove `manjaro-browser-settings`. - Failure: Firefox still behaves the same. - Decide to uninstall Firefox and reinstall it. However, I will install Chrome first. - Use _Add/Remove Software_ app preferences to enable AUR repository, then refresh databases. - Install Chrome from AUR. It works. - Uninstall Firefox and reinstall it. - Success: Firefox no longer opens to manjaro.org. - (There might have been a reboot somewhere in there - it doesn't hurt to sprinkle them in randomly when practicing voodoo computing!) Also it seems like with this OS, if I don't reboot after an update or changing certain settings - things start breaking. Maybe one day, we'll have the perfect OS! But as far as I know it doesn't exist yet. :)

PascLeRasc 8y ago
I realize this is a few days late, but does your Firefox not have this in the settings? https://imgur.com/a/1reMLvt https://imgur.com/a/1reMLvt