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Windows 10 or busted?
My employer may be loaning me a new(er) laptop soon, to enable me to do some work from home. By default, it will probably have Windows 10 installed, though my work will really need to be done in a Linux environment. Our usual way of handling that is to work in a virtual machine such as VirtualBox.
How hard should I be pushing to get our people to chuck out the Win'10 OS and install Linux directly on the machine? Or to use some earlier version of Windows, such as 7 or 8 or 8.1? We've got site licenses for at least some of those.
Originally, Win'10 had a host of "features" that many people considered utterly unacceptable. Freely sharing network passwords with everyone in one's Outlook contact list; automatic and irrevocable installation of OS upgrades; snooping on user activity and uploading the results to μsoft. Push advertising. More. Some of these have been pulled back, some haven't, but I'm under the impression that I still don't want a Win'10 machine on my home network if I can help it. Have I got that right?
I suppose that one option would be to make the machine dual-bootable, and simply never boot up the Win'10 side.
How hard should I be pushing to get our people to chuck out the Win'10 OS and install Linux directly on the machine? Or to use some earlier version of Windows, such as 7 or 8 or 8.1? We've got site licenses for at least some of those.
Originally, Win'10 had a host of "features" that many people considered utterly unacceptable. Freely sharing network passwords with everyone in one's Outlook contact list; automatic and irrevocable installation of OS upgrades; snooping on user activity and uploading the results to μsoft. Push advertising. More. Some of these have been pulled back, some haven't, but I'm under the impression that I still don't want a Win'10 machine on my home network if I can help it. Have I got that right?
I suppose that one option would be to make the machine dual-bootable, and simply never boot up the Win'10 side.