Thx, I think, I will look into chocolatey if WAU is not working out as expected.

No, thx, I’ll check it out.

Thx for sharing your experience! I think I will try WAU tomorrow. In the meantime I have read, it has block/allow lists, too.

At my institution GPO/intune is not allowed; we have on-premis ActiveDirectory, and my access is restricted to the clients I need to manage.

So far, I could preinstall almost all apps with the --silent flag. I assume that this also means, that they will update gracefully as SYSTEM user managed by WAU. Having the updates only applied when any normal AD user without admin rights logs on, is not an issue, as long as it works.

There is only one specific app to install user certificates; this can stay a manual task after first logon, because it requires user credentials anyway. (:

I am close to #1, but I have a 16:10 not 16:9 monitor. My laptop lid is always closed. I am a 100% one monitor person.

I am considering an ultrawide at home, but I fear that I will get problems at work if I cannot have the same there. I am not sure, if the linear window manager I am using makes sense with an ultrawide. And third issue: My existing monitor is still good and and awesome features which seem to be rare on other except gaming monitors: auto brightness and presense sensor. At work I can live without these two things, because the desk space has alsways the same brightness.

I am not a huge fan of the pipe operator, but together with PFA code can look cleaner, I guess.

Nested function calls are not a bad thing in my opinion.

I game on Debian; it is absolutely up to the task.

It is called the universal operating system for a reason.

Thx, I decided to not use raid for shipping.

I agree with both of you. Somehow I don’t worry about the drive in my laptop but 80 TB of scientific data is another thing, and I want to make sure it is the same data when it arrives.

Yes, using rsync between the two servers would be the best option. I guess, despite I already have the drives. On my end I could provide the access and arrange proper security with VPN, but at the target there are still too many question marks and I cannot currently count on some basic Linux knowledge there.

For a previous transfer of much less data I had to write a PS script that handled the transfer. It was very slow.

So, I am actually dealing with another problem: Can I get enough information from the non-tech persons to provide the best and easiest solution for them.

Thx so far all the ideas from all of you.

Thx.

The disks are only meant for transport at this time.

The more I think about it, the more I lean towards btrfs, because even if they don’t use btrfs on the target server the copying process will do the error correction based on the checksums in btrfs itself. I hope btrfs does it the same way as ZFS in this scenario.

I wasn’t involved in the decision process to buy those drives and enclosures. Now they act as a backup, too.

More like 8x 10 TB drives.

It is nice to read that PaperWM is usable again. I need the Gnome fearures, too.