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You contradict yourself: first you blame Windows then you blame clueless people. Here's the truth: for any organization the most secure operating system is the
by chx 2y ago
You contradict yourself: first you blame Windows then you blame clueless people.
Here's the truth: for any organization the most secure operating system is the one your people have experience in. That's it. Good Windows sysadmins can run a secure Windows shop and bad Linux sysadmins can run an insecure Linux shop. It's the people.
- mschuster91 2y agoThing is, it's easy to mess up a Windows kiosk - and hard to mess up a Linux kiosk. Desktop Windows isn't made for kiosk applications at all, unlike the long gone (and barely related) Windows CE. It's all various sorts of bolted-on crapware.
- withinboredom 2y agoWindows has a kiosk mode these days... I don't know much about it, but I suspect os-level support is way better than just running a full-screen app.
- vel0city 2y agoI've encountered several Linux kiosks where hitting Ctrl+F3 (or 4, 5, 6, 7...etc) just immediately dropped me into a root shell on the device. It seems like most of the time if I can press Ctrl+function key, it'll almost always drop out of the kiosk app at at least give me a login prompt. Sometimes it'll bother asking for a password, sometimes not. I've also encountered Linux kiosks where the app crashed and it is just sitting at a busybox terminal with root access as well. If you even slightly know how Windows IoT or Embedded works, setting up a Windows kiosk is pretty dang simple. There's simple wizards baked into Embedded/IoT that walk you through it. > Desktop Windows isn't made for kiosk applications at all Fully agreed here. They messed up shipping this with what appears to be full-fat Windows 7. Dumb move on their part.