• dariusj18@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Don’t think this couldn’t happen to Linux, it’s not a Windows problem but a vendor problem.

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      3 months ago

      Yes and no. Bitlocker is one of the core issues for recovery in many companies. Employees don’t have access to the key, the key must be entered by hand and is long. And there are scaling issues.

      Under linux you have different recovery options, and a secured bootloader password could be shared with all employees and changed afterwards. That is not a thing with windows

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      3 months ago

      Linux doesn’t force automatic updates into your system.

      On windows, the changes go out to everyone all at once. You figure out there’s a problem at the same time as everyone else on windows.

      On Linux (with a good it department), pending app/os updates get pulled to testing machine, test to make sure it still works, have supported machines pull down that version.

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        3 months ago

        This was a software update that a vendor pushed through their own means. The same thing can happen on Linux

        Edit: Also windows has update rings that can do what you’re describing

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        3 months ago

        On Linux (with a good it department), pending app/os updates get pulled to testing machine, test to make sure it still works, have supported machines pull down that version.

        This is in no way unique to Linux.

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        3 months ago

        As I said, this was a vendor issue, the vendor pushed an update that their software is configured to automatically download.

        Also, Windows actually has several steps until updates get pushed out to the general public, beta channels, and staggered releases, etc. Plus any moderately sized company will have their own windows update server and a test bed of computers to test updates on. Windows is actually very enterprise friendly.