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My big company is all in on Copilot. So far it’s actually been a net plus. I like it and it makes my life easier. That said, when offered a PC or Mac I chose th

My big company is all in on Copilot. So far it’s actually been a net plus. I like it and it makes my life easier. That said, when offered a PC or Mac I chose the Mac, because Recall. And all the Microsoft shenanigans on my home PC made me switch to Linux permanently. If Windows at home ran like Windows does on corporate PCs, people would like it better. They’re biffing that hard.

Zetaphor 11mo ago
> If Windows at home ran like Windows does on corporate PCs, people would like it better. How much of that experience is a result of your corporate IT removing all the bullshit with group policies that Microsoft has introduced
- vips7L 11mo ago
  I’ve always found IT to add bullshit, break things, and just make life harder.
  - conception 11mo ago
    Just IT folks rubbing their hands together evilly, “Yes! yes!! This will make our users’ lives miserable! Mwhahahahahahah!”
    - Nextgrid 11mo ago
      It's just extreme levels of ass-covering. If you have 3 security solutions installed and get pwned, oh well, it's not your fault. If you had none and get pwned, you get the blame, even if the attack vector wouldn't have been protected by most security solutions.
    - vips7L 11mo ago
      I’ve just always experienced them as a road block. They’ve only ever wanted to make their jobs easier. They’ve never wanted to enable me and make my life easier.
    - watwut 11mo ago
      They sometimes display shocking disconnect from what others need to do.
  - happymellon 11mo ago
    Not sure why you are down voted so much. I have a Mac for work, and I'm told that the chips are literally the fastest thing you'll experience. By a margin. I have 3 different security scanners forced by security and it is much slower than my personal Linux Lenovo. Even just the basics with UI responsiveness that in my experience Macs have always been pretty good at, to the detriment of applications. My experience of the ARM Macs has been through work, I personally owned Intel Macs and they were generally crap but felt faster than this.
  - lenkite 11mo ago
    This heavily depends on your company "policies". In general, it is not even really IT's fault - most of them would like to optimize performance and user experience, but the C-suite has mandated shit on your computer.
- browningstreet 11mo ago
  Corporate IT, with enterprise site licences, has access to turn things off you can't turn off with retail Windows.
ThrowawayB7 11mo ago
> "If Windows at home ran like Windows does on corporate PCs, people would like it better." People here on HN are willing pay Google (monthly even!) to remove ads from YouTube. People here are willing to pay for RHEL Workstation or Ubuntu Pro Desktop for enterprise deployments. Yet people here are unwilling to pay Microsoft for the correct Windows edition that provide the features they want. Their problems are self-inflicted.
- browningstreet 11mo ago
  I ran the version that shipped with my Dell. It was paid for. And mostly I want the ability to turn things off that retail Windows won't let you turn off.
- Nextgrid 11mo ago
  > the correct Windows edition that provide the features they want. The correct Windows edition is LTSC or IoT or whatever BS name they've since come up with. It's a license that can only be obtained from a reseller (since putting up a form that takes credit card details and spits out product keys is too complex for MS) and has a minimum order quantity (I believe you can pad the order with cheap "client access licenses" to get around that).
  - ThrowawayB7 11mo ago
    You're proving my point for me: It's called Windows Enterprise and has been Windows Enterprise since the launch of Windows 10 a decade ago.
- bitwize 11mo ago
  People use the OS that came preinstalled on the machine. Not even Windows took off until Microsoft started armtwisting OEMs to preinstall it (Windows 3.0, 1990). And coming soon from Microsoft: locked bootloaders that prevent you from installing another OS! You know, because security, and no one installs alternative operating systems anyway.
  - 11mo ago

Zetaphor 11mo ago

> If Windows at home ran like Windows does on corporate PCs, people would like it better. How much of that experience is a result of your corporate IT removing all the bullshit with group policies that Microsoft has introduced

vips7L 11mo ago
I’ve always found IT to add bullshit, break things, and just make life harder.
- conception 11mo ago
  Just IT folks rubbing their hands together evilly, “Yes! yes!! This will make our users’ lives miserable! Mwhahahahahahah!”
  - Nextgrid 11mo ago
    It's just extreme levels of ass-covering. If you have 3 security solutions installed and get pwned, oh well, it's not your fault. If you had none and get pwned, you get the blame, even if the attack vector wouldn't have been protected by most security solutions.
  - vips7L 11mo ago
    I’ve just always experienced them as a road block. They’ve only ever wanted to make their jobs easier. They’ve never wanted to enable me and make my life easier.
  - watwut 11mo ago
    They sometimes display shocking disconnect from what others need to do.
- happymellon 11mo ago
  Not sure why you are down voted so much. I have a Mac for work, and I'm told that the chips are literally the fastest thing you'll experience. By a margin. I have 3 different security scanners forced by security and it is much slower than my personal Linux Lenovo. Even just the basics with UI responsiveness that in my experience Macs have always been pretty good at, to the detriment of applications. My experience of the ARM Macs has been through work, I personally owned Intel Macs and they were generally crap but felt faster than this.
- lenkite 11mo ago
  This heavily depends on your company "policies". In general, it is not even really IT's fault - most of them would like to optimize performance and user experience, but the C-suite has mandated shit on your computer.
browningstreet 11mo ago
Corporate IT, with enterprise site licences, has access to turn things off you can't turn off with retail Windows.

ThrowawayB7 11mo ago

> "If Windows at home ran like Windows does on corporate PCs, people would like it better." People here on HN are willing pay Google (monthly even!) to remove ads from YouTube. People here are willing to pay for RHEL Workstation or Ubuntu Pro Desktop for enterprise deployments. Yet people here are unwilling to pay Microsoft for the correct Windows edition that provide the features they want. Their problems are self-inflicted.

browningstreet 11mo ago
I ran the version that shipped with my Dell. It was paid for. And mostly I want the ability to turn things off that retail Windows won't let you turn off.
Nextgrid 11mo ago
> the correct Windows edition that provide the features they want. The correct Windows edition is LTSC or IoT or whatever BS name they've since come up with. It's a license that can only be obtained from a reseller (since putting up a form that takes credit card details and spits out product keys is too complex for MS) and has a minimum order quantity (I believe you can pad the order with cheap "client access licenses" to get around that).
- ThrowawayB7 11mo ago
  You're proving my point for me: It's called Windows Enterprise and has been Windows Enterprise since the launch of Windows 10 a decade ago.
bitwize 11mo ago
People use the OS that came preinstalled on the machine. Not even Windows took off until Microsoft started armtwisting OEMs to preinstall it (Windows 3.0, 1990). And coming soon from Microsoft: locked bootloaders that prevent you from installing another OS! You know, because security, and no one installs alternative operating systems anyway.
- 11mo ago