I’d describe it as making computer systems reliable.

Why is that? What do you feel is the downside?

Yes, kind of.

Someone might correct me if I’m wrong but it’s that, plus extra tooling to redirect the stuff that needs to be writable, plus more extra tooling to allow you to temporarily unlock the read-only parts in order to do system updates, plus a system updater that puts the whole system more-or-less under version control.

Honestly it’s easy to get that definition of DEI when it is poorly explained and/or poorly understood.

Plenty of people particularly on the right believe all the explanatory reasoning behind DEI is thinly-veiled “reverse racism”.

That’s fine but it’s disingenuous to say one has no idea what the OP is talking about.

Kinda but … they go together, and Active Directory is more or less LDAP+Kerberos with a sprinkling of standardization on top.

Busted. Pedantic smart ass it is.

That said I think the windows PIN code system is absurdly insecure but … eh you do you.

implement the Windows PIN thing for startup on my PC

If you’re that specific in your requirements, you’re gonna have a bad time. I don’t think Microsoft makes “Windows PIN” for Linux.

Me, via my taxes I would expect.

Bins in woodlands do not get emptied often and will often overflow

Think I found the problem— why not do the obvious thing and empty them more often?

As much of a shit show as it is, group policy is really the killer feature of Windows.

People who don’t understand windows or the minimize, maximize, and close buttons. So they constantly close the window and then relaunch the program to get back to the main screen or switch tasks.