this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
965 points (95.5% liked)

Linux

47323 readers
845 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Linux still doesn’t have a good answer to AD for managing suites of end user machines.

That's just not true at all. Multi-user management has been part of Unix since your parents were children.

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if the windows fanboy doesn't know about it, it's not real. Or if it is, it's not good! /s

If there's not 3 domains of trust and 8321 different group policies does it even count as user management?!

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Notice how you're ignoring the machine management and selectively choosing to focus on the user management. User management might be fine with Linux, but machine management can't compete with GPOs, especially for managing Windows clients, which is what businesses are using for workstations whether we like it or not.

[–] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I left out machine management because it wasn't being talked about but I'm pretty sure puppet and ansible fuck way more than winblows. And I don't give a fuck about windows desktop management. Windows top to bottom is abhorrent and I don't give a shit about the awful tools you need to use to administer it.

Seriously - you think windows is easier to administer remotely than linux? Fuck. Outta. Here.