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@DecayWTF

oh god how did this get here i am not good with computer

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I use Arch BTW

Fun fact: Neo-Nazi dipshit cartoonist Stonetoss is in fact Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, Texas

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF6/3/2023, 1:31 AM

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dead flag blues custom stepmania chart @MxSelfDestruct6/3/2023, 1:30 AM

had to install Windows 10 on a bunch of computers at work today and I feel insane

is there some sort of secret or trick that I'm not privvy to that makes this process not agonizingly slow or does everyone else just grin and bear it. what the fuck. what does Microsoft feed this thing? cement???

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF6/3/2023, 1:31 AM

The answer for mass deployment of Windows without dying of old age is probably the same as it has been for decades: You install one, create an image and then just dd that motherfucker onto the hard drives of the machines you're deploying to.

It's amazing that enterprise deployments is a use case Microsoft just does not actually give a shit about. Here, have Windows Autopilot, go fuck yourself.

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dead flag blues custom stepmania chart @MxSelfDestruct6/3/2023, 1:33 AM

does this still work if you're deploying to a bunch of different models of machine? please say yes

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF6/3/2023, 1:36 AM

It works better than it used to? Windows doesn't have like seventeen different platform kernels anymore and UEFI makes it less

insane.

The basic idea in that case is to install a lobotomized windows with some baseline drivers to a small hard drive, image that, splat it to the drives on the target machines and then come back later and fix up drivers and partitions. It's safer if the machines are kind of similar on the system level, like you might have a bad time if you have a mix of Intel and AMD systems with all completely different hardware.

dead flag blues custom stepmania chart @MxSelfDestruct6/3/2023, 1:39 AM

oh yeah that makes sense, gonna see if I can make this happen in the future. of course, most of the machines we're deploying to are still running spinning disks so it's gonna be at least somewhat agonizing but I'll take what I can get 😵‍💫

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF6/3/2023, 1:40 AM

Yeah, imaging is still entirely doable on spinning rust... It's actually better there than fighting with a normal install. We used to do hundreds of machines at a go that way at the old job.

muffin j lord @muffinlord6/3/2023, 4:13 AM

bulk imaging fucking rules, it is basically the desktop tech equivalent of a union break. you fire all that shit up and welp, now i guess i gotta sit here on my phone for two hours cause my entire workspace is now dell small form factor toasters and they gotta be babysat, oh darn

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF6/3/2023, 4:31 AM

Fuck yeah. Nothing else to do but fire up some ipx doom

Xylaria @Xylaria6/3/2023, 6:56 AM

Microsoft actually cares a lot about enterprise deployments, but only if you're doing enough of them that you're paying for them. Microsoft Intune is their solution suite for this kind of thing, and it's really useful - if you can afford it, and if you're on a large enough scale.

But on anything smaller, yeah, the "create an image and deploy it" method becomes far easier - and doesn't require Azure AD.

multioculate @multioculate6/3/2023, 7:37 AM

Hey, hey, this is a medium-scale enterprise windows deployment; we don't use dd for those, we prefer some cracked commercial product named "Don's Execrable WindowsFixer™" that the one graybeard IT guy keeps on a flash drive and just click through the ads and license warnings every 10 minutes. It only runs on a specific (also cracked) version of Windows the graybeard keeps on a laptop in a drawer in his office. Duh.

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