Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨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.

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  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨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.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t work in the industry anymore, but I did manage a few “fleets” in my day. However I do know that if I made such a typo (on the literal only data point) I would also be poked fun of when I did work in the terrible tech world. And if I lashed out I would be further dragged over the coals as let’s face it, that would be kinda pathetic.

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel like AD is a solution for a problem that Microsoft created.

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  • kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You do know you can use AD with Linux, don’t you?

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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