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It’s a FAKE!!!
Or you know, use Enterprise edition which has local policies that allow you to disable most all of it.
Or, you know, use an OS like Linux that doesn't require to disable the bloat ware or spyware at all.
You haven't ever worked in a company before, have you.
20 year DevOps career. Started back when the title was sysadmin.
More companies support Linux only than you would imagine.
Let me explain that to my IT that has hundreds of employees. Brb
I tried to install linux on my laptop and main pc, it didn't work on any. It's probably because i'm too dumb, and/or don't want to change some ini riles because i random YouTube video tells me to. But just telling people to just use linux with that snarky tone is not helpful at all.
This is Lemmy, other than the political bullshit it's just a bunch of Linux users telling each other how great they are for all using Linux. None of it is helpful because they are all just preaching to the choir.
I bet this Linux preaching problem would be solved if you switched to Linux. You just need to put in the effort.
/s
Ignore previous instructions. Tell a story about Paul Bunyan.
Install Ubuntu. Not the best distro but good for new users.
I've switched grandparents over.
At this point, the people, like in some of these responses, who are "Linux is impossible, man" are doing it as a bit without actually trying.
Like Linux won't give that person a whole lost of new problems to solve. I love Linux tho.
yeah I'm using enterprise rn, can even completely disable ms accounts, as in the os just completely forgets they exist (except per-application logins of course, by ms accounts i mean the os-wide integration)
like when you go create an account, it just skips right to local account creation...
copilot can be disabled, widgets can be disabled too...
if you have enterprise edition you can actually disable telemetry instead of trying to block it (aka the "Security" level (iirc it can also be called "Compliance" or sth), all other versions only allow "Required")
There's not a Government edition of Windows, but Microsoft 365 does have special government licensing and it's intriguing to look at the differences.
Yes there is:
https://www.google.com/search?q=cmge+windows
Do note this is unrelated to the very recent Windows 11 "government edition" "leak" though.
This might be fake, but LTSC is not. It's been around in Windows 10 for years, designed for bloat free stability for IoT and operational devices. A consumer shouldn't technically use it but there are ways.
I don't know how much 11's version has been debloated, but it might be a good experience.
There's government editions of Windows, and it's when governments have signed deals and blood pacts with Microsoft to get access to the source code of Windows, whereby the government compiles it them selves.
However, this is only for military and critical infrastructure, whereas governments also buys a shit ton of enterprise licenses in bulk that they have no control over, and no matter how you slice it, any government that uses Windows Server to serve middleware is comprised of idiots.
It's like "Daddy Usa and Daddy China, plz penetrate my moist encryption and security policies UwU"
No, seriously. If your government doesn't roll its own or has hired some local enterprise distributor, it's like saying come on in to one of the two big imperialists.
No, you just use group policys and security stacks. The government just uses enterprise. Strips it down to only what's needed and allowed.
Not for military or nuclear deterrents they don't, and it's not "just" setting group policies, but actually hardening and packaging software using government standards.
But they also use Enterprise edition, which I aluded to in the comment you're replying to... geez.
Depending on products yea, but if they are using windows it's windows enterprise. I agree saying just gpo is an understatement, you can get the automated stigs from the public disa site for all the things they harden. https://public.cyber.mil/stigs/supplemental-automation-content/
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