• tryptaminev@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    So you are saying, that you can install and uninstall any software by yourself?

    You can access the company network, and network drives without any sandbox?

    You can install or remove browser plugins?

    You can create or remove local users with custom access rights and gain administrator rights for your local installation?

    You can put any program you like into the autostart and quit any processes you like?

    You can install drivers for any periphal hardware you are connecting and you can mount any external drive you want?

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      1 year ago

      What point are you trying to make? That if I can’t customize absolutely everything on it, then being able to customize most things without using the command line isn’t valuable?

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        The point i am trying to make is that you are not being allowed to do any of these, if the company has any reasonable security in place.

        So the settings you can change are things anyone can change on a windows machines just as easily using the GUI. So customizeability by the end user is not a characteristic that makes an OS “industrial”. Linux distros are not “industrial” because they are customizeable by the end user and most companies run windows computers outside the IT and backend, even though a linux system could do the same without any problem for the end user.

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          1 year ago

          I never claimed that Linux was industrial because it can be changed by the end user, I claimed that it’s industrial because there are basic things that any normal power user would want to do that can only be done via command line.