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> My kids can't break their windows machine, because I know what I'm doing and have set up a strong security policy. In my experience, I find that regardless o
by jervisfm 13y ago
> My kids can't break their windows machine, because I know what I'm doing and have set up a strong security policy.
In my experience, I find that regardless of policy, windows computers are more likely to break down at one point or another. Curious though, what do you do different to mitigate that inevitability?
- harrytuttle 13y agoWell two mitigations: 1. Secure by default. The default windows configuration is not secure by default - it's a compromise that is used to make it usable for people. You can (with Group Policy) lock the machine down heavily then allow things as they are required. I do this. 2. Good hardware. They have a Dell Precision T3500 rather than some shitty disposable piece of crap. I expect this will last around 8-10 years. Windows is perfectly fine if you understand it. We have 377 Windows machines and 205 Linux machines in total. Reliability statistics are approximately the same. The only issues we get is with hardware packing in occasionally (usually the HP mid-range stuff and their laptops).