Don't think this couldn't happen to Linux, it's not a Windows problem but a vendor problem.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
You manually load them up and pray the vendor didn't fuck up like this.
I really doubt recovery will take weeks for anything important. My office was unaffected but my friend's was - they expect to be back online by Monday.
Yeah it's a pain, but low paid techies all over the world will spend all their time rebooting and fixing systems
Already? 😂
Everything at work worked. Public transport worked. Ordering groceries and paying with my card worked.
Which sucks. I could have used a free day.
I too would've liked a temporary shutdown of society. Just as a little treat
Germany operating in the information-stone-age finally pays off.
Weeks to recovery? LOL.
I just helped an enterprise with tens of thousands of endpoints recover almost completely in under 12 hours.
The fix may only take a day or two but what about the processes and transactions that should have been running in that timeframe?
What about all the people who now need to be put onto later flights, warehouses and factories that now need to catch up after being at a standstill for hours, transport being delayed due to paperwork not being able to be sent. And so on.
Those all need to be fixed up before everything is back to running as normal (until the next big screw-up).
This feels kind of overblown. It wasn't an apocalypse scenario where people needed to stock up on food and stuff. Honestly if the Internet hadn't filled up with memes I probably wouldn't have known about the outage. My company was fine. Everyone in my family's company's were fine. All the places I shopped today were fine. A few of our vendors were mildly affected. It certainly seems widespread, but not nearly to the point of validating a prepper lifestyle.
- pay with cash
- ride a bike
- dont consoom and got groceries yesterday
- no car
I for one am lucky to remain unaffected
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