A buddy of mine works for a fortune 500 company that started giving out MacBooks as the standard hardware this year. Apparently you need to jump through a bunch of hoops if you want to run Windows. I was shocked to hear it but Microsoft deserves to be humbled.
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shalafi@lemmy.world 9 hours agoDoesn’t matter much what users do. Corporations are nowhere close to ditching Windows.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Corporations haven’t ditched windows because Active Directory and Group Policy had no equal. Now that Microsoft has slowly pushed everybody to cloud based identity, there’s really nothing stopping you from using something other than AD or even Entra ID
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Identity management is only one aspect of AD. Very telling that all these rebuttals are thinking only in terms of what LDAP can handle.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Are you commenting from the year 2007?
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I’ve seen a lot of companies that are all mac. And didnt a European government just change to all linux ?
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
My last company was a software dev and even they were only 70/40 Windows/Mac.
Yes, seems lots of European agencies are moving to FOSS, but more towards open office solutions. Moving to Linux for the OS makes fleet management pure hell. I know LDAP exists, but that doesn’t begin to compare to AD.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
I feel like AD is a solution for a problem that Microsoft created.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 hours ago
Please tell us the name of this 110% software dev, so we can avoid it. There is a min amount of math needed here.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Made a typo smartass, and you know it. 70/30.
Now tell us all how smart you really are. Tell us how to manage a fleet of Linux or Mac machines, or even a mixed environment. One reason I passed an interview was with this very question! Go.
kescusay@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You do know you can use AD with Linux, don’t you?
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I would love an explanation of how AD can control Linux machines! Can I reset you Linux password over AD? Can I lock you out of using removable media? How the hell do GPOs work?!
AD isn’t simply authentication, grouping computers and users. LDAP does all that.