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One example off the top of my head: It used to be (may still be) the case that you needed admin rights to install and run the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Sure, you might not need this to do your job, but IT is not really in a position to decide that. It could be that WSL greatly increases your productivity.


Exactly. Unfortunately windows admin rights are not very granular so if you do anything serious you end up needing full admin soon.


Application control is granular if you use SCCM or Intune and Application Guard. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/m...

There is absolutely middle ground if you have the time and resources to get it running smoothly.


I am sure solutions could be found. But it would require effort from IT to understand what we are doing and finding real solutions.


You can ask IT to install it for you. You don’t need to install it yourself.


Hahahaha, I do this job (the IT software installer), and no dev should be without admin rights.

It's not practical to sit around for a week or more while you wait for each piece of software to install. No dev will ever get any work done.


But then you're waiting around for the rest of the day for them to come install it.


DAY!? What magical place do you work at where IT is so specialized that you have to request them to install an application, and it only takes ONE DAY?


They wouldn't even know how to install our stuff.


Precisely! And then they'll get it wrong (or worse still say they won't do it the way you ask even though you will know better why those choices are needed!)




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