In my view, this is unacceptable…

They changed my background (previously there was a default blue window), placed an icon in the bottom corner of the screen that read “Learn more about this photo”, and re-added the search bar that I had previously removed.

Fortunately, I don’t have to deal with this on a daily basis.

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    I actually enjoy playing with Windows and Active Directory. I think it is ahead in terms of management and needing hacky workarounds

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      there isn’t active directory for linux?, actually what active directory do diferently?

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        You absolutely can join Linux machines to AD. You just don’t have the same power that group policy gives you.

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          what group policy gives that unix filesystem permissions don’t?, i really don’t know, and i don’t have a windows machine to test :b

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            Group policy lets you basically configure anything on any machine in the active directory domain; Installed programs, installed updates, basically any settings, schedules, services, automatically adding (and limiting by users if you want) network devices like printers and storage… It’s pretty powerful, and does way more than just filesystem permissions.

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      I use FreeIPA and it works just fine for everything I would need AD for. Your point still stands. I just mean there are good enough alternatives for the Linux environment.

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        There are definitely ways of configuring Linux systems. For many organizations Ansible or Puppet works completely fine. However, they require a significant amount of knowledge and aren’t completely standardized. Group policy on Windows has been around for a long time and will be much easier to deploy, at least in the short term.