Companies are stuck with Windows because that’s what the workforce understands and there is nothing remotely close to Active Directory. They’re stuck with Office because nothing can replace Excel.
Lemmy: “I’ve been using Linux for years. These companies are so dumb.”
There’s nothing like it in the Linux or Mac worlds. People have often told me, “LDAP exists!” Yeah, for authentication, and that’s about it.
If you’re a Windows sysadmin and you think, “I wonder if I could do this thing?”, the answer is “yes”, there’s an easy way to do that thing and/or a Group Policy Object to be applied. AD is a truly amazing system for managing a fleet of PCs.
Wondering that myself. MDM is pretty wide spread and Mac has great centralized management with all the invasion of privacy the org admin could ask for.
That doesn’t scratch the surface of what AD can do. If I can imagine a thing, AD has a GPO for that, or an even simpler way. You can apply 999 GPOs per user or group or machine. That’s not all of them.
It’s not just about MDM, or auth. AD is incredibly reliable and mature. I can’t see anyway for Linux to catch up because of the splattered ecosystem, or Apple allowing that fine level of control.
Replacing one monolithic approach with another won’t work for starters. You’ll run into the same issue.
It’s not as if one company only has the smart people in the room. You want to do something differently, then do it differently. Don’t make the same mistakes.
In other words, don’t replace active directory or Excel with carbon copies. Do something different.
If I recall correctly, there was a intention in a European country to switch a department to a fork of OnlyOffice, but “there was too many bugs and incompability issues that it didn’t make it reliable”, and the employees still had access to Microsoft 365, so my bet is that some tried it and when they don’t understand it they kept using Microsoft Office.
Please if anyone else have more info please share it, I remember hearing about this from TheLinuxExperiment.
Still in development, but some packages are ready to run.
Remember, it’s not just document apps and such, it’s connection and collaboration that MS provides. Some of it is quite complex on the backend so it can look simple on the frontend.
Companies are stuck with Windows because that’s what the workforce understands and there is nothing remotely close to Active Directory. They’re stuck with Office because nothing can replace Excel.
Lemmy: “I’ve been using Linux for years. These companies are so dumb.”
Moron here. Whats so unobtanium about Active Directory?
There’s nothing like it in the Linux or Mac worlds. People have often told me, “LDAP exists!” Yeah, for authentication, and that’s about it.
If you’re a Windows sysadmin and you think, “I wonder if I could do this thing?”, the answer is “yes”, there’s an easy way to do that thing and/or a Group Policy Object to be applied. AD is a truly amazing system for managing a fleet of PCs.
Interesting. Gives atleast a sense of one thing solid keeping some orgs locked-in with MS. Thanks for the info.
Wondering that myself. MDM is pretty wide spread and Mac has great centralized management with all the invasion of privacy the org admin could ask for.
That doesn’t scratch the surface of what AD can do. If I can imagine a thing, AD has a GPO for that, or an even simpler way. You can apply 999 GPOs per user or group or machine. That’s not all of them.
It’s not just about MDM, or auth. AD is incredibly reliable and mature. I can’t see anyway for Linux to catch up because of the splattered ecosystem, or Apple allowing that fine level of control.
They’re only stuck because they want to be. There are many ways to skin a turnip.
Cool. Tell us all how to replace Active Directory and/or Excel.
This isn’t your home PC we’re talking about. We’re talking about managing a business and a fleet of machines.
Replacing one monolithic approach with another won’t work for starters. You’ll run into the same issue.
It’s not as if one company only has the smart people in the room. You want to do something differently, then do it differently. Don’t make the same mistakes.
In other words, don’t replace active directory or Excel with carbon copies. Do something different.
If I recall correctly, there was a intention in a European country to switch a department to a fork of OnlyOffice, but “there was too many bugs and incompability issues that it didn’t make it reliable”, and the employees still had access to Microsoft 365, so my bet is that some tried it and when they don’t understand it they kept using Microsoft Office.
Please if anyone else have more info please share it, I remember hearing about this from TheLinuxExperiment.
https://github.com/Euro-Office/desktop-apps
Still in development, but some packages are ready to run.
Remember, it’s not just document apps and such, it’s connection and collaboration that MS provides. Some of it is quite complex on the backend so it can look simple on the frontend.
Thank you for the context.