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In your world i should switch my modest 1000 seats over to Linux desktops? I'm not sure how i'm going to explain the productivity loss and retraining costs to
by swarnie 2y ago
In your world i should switch my modest 1000 seats over to Linux desktops?
I'm not sure how i'm going to explain the productivity loss and retraining costs to the board if im honest.
- jeroenhd 2y agoPlus, CrowdStrike runs on Linux as well. _This time_ they only crashed Windows devices, but there's no guarantee that switching to Linux would prevent any of it. You can switch away from CrowdStrike but I doubt you'll be able to convince whoever mandated CS to be installed to not install an alternative that carries exactly the same risks.
- whyoh 2y ago>CrowdStrike runs on Linux as well. _This time_ they only crashed Windows devices, but there's no guarantee that switching to Linux would prevent any of it. In fact there was a recent CrowdStrike-related crash in RHEL: https://old.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1cluxzz/crowdstrike_kernel_panic_rhel_94/ https://old.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1cluxzz/crowds... https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083
- ExoticPearTree 2y agoAt least on Linux it runs on eBPF sniffing so the chances of fudging something are lower. There are some supported Linux distributions where they also have a kernel module and there might a higher chance of that exploding.
- nolist_policy 2y agoNo you should switch over to Chromeos, iPads, ... anything but Microsoft. Crowdstrike only exists because Windows and other Microsoft products are so insecure their default configuration.
- extheat 2y agoThere's nothing special about Windows beyond the fact that you can run arbitrary executable files. The problem could just as easily have happened for Linux or iOS/Mac and in fact it has. ChromeOS kind of works if you want to run a web application that's hosted on some web server... but it's not appropriate for running programs where a dumb browser doesn't suffice.
- didntcheck 2y agoWhat defaults would those be, and how would you change them?
- Keyframe 2y agoEnjoy the circus then!
- throaway920181 2y agoI'm not in IT anymore and we run 100% macs, so serious question here: isn't nearly everything a webapp nowadays? Every "non dev" thing that I have to do for work happens in my browser or an electron app. I guess maybe MS Office apps may be the biggest hitch? We use Google Workspace and that's all in browser.
- ricardobayes 2y agoNot at all. "Industry", think: manufacturing is still big on desktop applications.
- 63stack 2y agoShouldn't be too hard to bundle them together with qemu, or some other vm solution.
- windowsrookie 2y agoLegacy apps are quite common. I have recently been doing IT for State Farm Insurance. Every State Farm insurance office in the country is still using a DOS App from the 1980's to run their office.
- myng111 2y agoI'm interested what these DOS applications are running on. Is it virtualised or a real physical machine?
- Novosell 2y agoThere are actually web versions of the office suite now.
- aveao 2y agoIt's horrible to use though. Google's suite is somewhat better than MSFT's web one, but it still is weak compared to any established desktop office suite, even libreoffice.
- jojobas 2y agoYour 1000 seats crashing won't prevent airplanes from landing. These things should have gone from mainframes of yore to various unix systems, ideally a mix of different unix systems in hot failover. Without running uncontrolled "agent" software of course.