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Device Management for the Linux Desktop: The Gap We Close Ourselves

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Name a platform, and I’ll name its device management. Windows? Microsoft Intune — and before it, SCCM, now called MECM, which nobody pronounces with confidence. macOS? Jamf — so taken for granted that Mac admins couldn’t act otherwise if they tried. iPhones and iPads? MobileIron, MaaS360, Workspace ONE — a whole zoo of MDM suites, all speaking the same Apple protocol. ChromeOS? The Google Admin console, elegant to the point of dullness. Android? No trouble at all — every Knox fleet, every carrier plan ships with management baked in.

The operating system is the most fundamental choice we make

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is a scene that has played out thousands of times this year.

Someone owns a computer. Not old, perhaps three or four years. Decent CPU, enough RAM, an SSD, a perfectly usable machine. And then the message arrives: this device does not meet the system requirements for Windows 12, the newest Windows release. A coprocessor called TPM, a particular firmware level, a CPU generation released a few months too early — some technical detail the user never knew and never wanted to know suddenly decides the lifespan of their machine.