[casual-dev]

I admit it. I hate Windows 10. Probably 11 too. Maintaining four machines, two of which family related, I'm not able to say how much of a hassle it is to just keep them running, unsupervised and supervised. We are not talking rocket science here: mail and web browsing, some light gaming here and there. No malware, no miners, just plain and simple machines. After 6-12 months, they are not usable anymore.

Final straw for my private machine: I was not allowed to save in my own working folder. This was on a fresh out of the box install. I'm still angry. I switched to Linux full time after this.

I can not image how it must feel like when you are not having admin privileges. Given it is not a work machine, I would just refuse to go near it. No meditation would be enough to help me stay calm. My heart goes out to everyone who has to deal with this crap, I hope you get good money for it.

[cosmie]

If you haven't, check out the Windows Admin Center app[1]. It's targeted primarily at managing Windows Server, but works fantastically for managing Windows 10 too (and they even mention that on the doc homepage). This[2] page in particular gives you a good visual and overview of the actual management features.

I originally tinkered with it to see if I could straighten out a Windows 10 dev VM that got mangled over time but I didn't want to wipe. It was a bit of a bear getting it setup and learning as I went, but once I got it going it was shockingly to actually find and cleanup all the little gremlins that had accumulated and started bogging things down and/or causing issues.

That sold me on it, and I've since set up all the Windows machines in the house so I can use WAC for maintaining them. It's been far more pleasant keeping everyone's computers chugging along.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windo...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windo...

[casual-dev]

Thanks for the info, that looks promising. I will have a look into it, maybe it helps straighten some problems out.

[Thorentis]

Linux Mint is great for all these things, even for family members not used to Linux. I would say LM is closer to Windows 7 that it is 10, and that's a good thing.