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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by ngc248 on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:40AM (#30116991)
Oh man ... the cruft that corporate IT installs slows down the computers so much. Its better if companies start handing out linux machines if they cant afford macs. I would trade my windows laptop with IT cruft any day for a linux machine.
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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by hn_version_0023 on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:12PM (#30118312)
IT will cruft it up no matter the OS. I’ve had to run TrendMicro on AWS linux instances because of the gov’ts settlement with Sony re: “North Korean hacking”.

It destroyed performance. Also it was poorly configured by the checkmark-brigade in their “security & compliance” department.

All I’m saying is careful what you wish for.

Edit: spelling

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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by unionpivo on Friday January 28, 2022 @04:44PM (#30120767)
You have too much faith in corporate IT.

They can fuck up macs and Linux just as well.

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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by abawany on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:56PM (#30121639)
Can confirm: got Symantec End-Point Protection rolled out on macs here and it has turned them in slow crashy pieces of ... garbage; I've had to restore my machine from backup a couple of times already when a macos update with this thing running would result in an unbootable machine.

It would have been more cost-efficient and secure to smash our machines with sledgehammers than force us to run this ... junk.

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