> As many purchases of laptops have occurred with employees making the purchases and then being reimbursed by GitLab, a remote employee would typically be making a purchase of a laptop pre-loaded with Windows Home Edition.
Windows Home Edition is notoriously hard to secure.
This is a totally valid point. Anyone who has worked for big companies know how companies secure systems using security policies which are not available on home edition and tough to setup on Profesional license bought by user.
If a user really wants to do something on windows then I am sure they can run it in VirtualBox or VMware on their system.
>Windows Home Edition is notoriously hard to secure.
This is bullshit. In Windows 10 Home the Group Policy Editor is removed, and domain-join is not supported, however bulk security changes (i.e. Security Policies) can still be implemented directly to the registry with scripting.
Windows Home Edition is notoriously hard to secure.
This is a totally valid point. Anyone who has worked for big companies know how companies secure systems using security policies which are not available on home edition and tough to setup on Profesional license bought by user.
If a user really wants to do something on windows then I am sure they can run it in VirtualBox or VMware on their system.