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Windows users are used to everything being so locked down that it's virtually impossible to mess up your system... lots of this stuff is in config files because exposing it for everyday users would be asking for people to completely brick their workflow.
If you put every option in a GUI, there would be so much stuff that nobody could find anything.
I think you just discribed windows I know my head hurts looking at GPOs.
No Windows put everything in a GUI, then added a second GUI that didn’t quite have all the functionality of the first one so kept both around, then despite the second GUI existing for nearly 10 years it still couldn’t do everything the first one could and then they completely redesigned it rather than just introducing all the functionality from the first GUI, but they removed some of the functionality of the second GUI from the first GUI so now both GUIs are incomplete and full of functions that just link to the other GUI
That's basically Sharepoint. You better bookmark the three different Web pages because they have different options you won't find on the two other. But also just finding and remembering those three Web pages is a Pita. I or better yet, never have to manage Sharepoint pages. This stuff is worse than printers.
Oh god don’t get me started on SharePoint, I only recently discovered that disabling permission inheritance doesn’t actually disable permission inheritance…
As kludgey as they are, though, I do wish there was a good replacement for GPOs in Linux
There is and it can be mapped to GPOs when connecting to AD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Security_Services_Daemon
As cool as that is, I'm only seeing authentication and rights management, which have little to do with what GPOs do
It's limited of course https://4sysops.com/archives/applying-group-policy-to-linux-using-sssd/
That's not just limited, that's an incredibly tiny bit of user rights assignments, which is an incredibly tiny part of group policy and does nothing to configure the system... It's useful, but not really what I'm talking about
Oh very true but it's the closest thing I have seen some services like jumpcloud have had good luck expanding beyond that into configuration.
That's why you put it in 3, with no rhyme or reason for which goes wear
Now we got it only in config files where we can't find anything. Also don't you put a single wrong character in there, it could break everything.
Well-made GUIs can even prevent disaster by exposing settings in a diggestable way and making sure entries are properly edited. Good UI/UX conveys functionality through form and can be navigated intuitively.
To make settings inaccessible on purpose or even alienate people deemed "too stupid" for them is called Tech Paternalism, and it fucking sucks.
A well-documented config file is like the exact opposite of "tech paternalism".
To make settings inaccessible on purpose or even alienate people deemed "too stupid" for them is called Tech Paternalism, and it fucking sucks.
You're referring to Windows Registry right?
The Linux equivilent of this is atomic/immutable distros (SteamOS and Android being the most popular examples, but Fedora also has one that's fairly popular).