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LG TVs and monitors said to surveil users and install bloatware without asking
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2026
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Or you could just change to an os that doesnt piss on its users constantly
Unfortunately, dual gpu and ray tracing setups don't work very well on linux.
Sounds like a hostage situation
I couldn't tell you about ray tracing, but it's been pretty painless for me to run specific apps on igpu/dgpu using switcheroo-control
Indeed. I use Linux most of the time, and MacOS a bit of the time, but the old Windows desktop is still there for the infrequent times when I need to use it to work on old music projects.
Great; what OS has the equivalent of Group Policy and Active Directory besides windows?
The funny thing is, the people who care about Group Policy and Active Directory are the same people who aren't happy about their network potentially being compromised because someone hooked up their work laptop up to a monitor at their home.
Still didn’t answer the question.
This is the one thing holding open source back, and the thing Linux users keep pissing on without understanding it.
The CTOs inept nephew can manage your fleet of windows machines and you get all the checkbox security you need for compliance (and some real security):
That same feature set on Linux will cost you a ton of money in skilled staff if you want to check the same compliance checkboxes. (As for real security, who cares, no one is doing that anyway)
THANK YOU!
So many people just don’t get it; happy to see someone rational who does.
I WISH Linux had something like this, but it’s like NT 4.0; it doesn’t have it.
It’s getting there, slowly.
But the biggest issue is the mentality of ”I own my computer”. Sure, you own your private machine, but your company owns the computer you use for work and the data on it and has an interest in protecting that data from you. That particular threat model is hard to communicate, as Linux users normally don’t think of themselves as a threat vector.
Good to know they’re working on boot; what about something similar to AD and GPO?
I hope no one tries to push GPO-like stuff on Linux. I get where you are coming from, but for example Puppet will give you a lot more power and and flexibility. There is no registry. ”Everything is a file” is actually true, you just manage a bunch of config files instead.
As for AD, you have FreeIPA as the major contender. It works. You can also just join your Linux clients to your AD. Kerberos works just as expected.
(RedHat actually tried pushing management of Gnome via FreeIPA á la GPO. It sucks, because the desktop environment is just a tiny part of what you might want to manage, so suddenly you need to have both that bullshit and your normal configuration management tool.)