Been running a theoretical how do I replace my MS products should things go awry in the next months/years and sanctions severely reduce traditional products.
My challenge came to the end users and while I have loved Linux for years (don't bother doing network work on Windows anymore) and daily a MacBook at home (SBCs running the house and mini server in the study are all flavours of Debian), but I've never given much thought as to how do I get corporate style setup -- an Active Directory / Co-Pilot type experience of a machine joining the directory and policies and scripts lock down systems and automate a lot of the setup for the IT support team (box to end user desk in 2 hours or less is the goal).
When I took over as the major grump, I set about making group policies and scripts that are/should be considered norm in a corporate. Great, but now how do I do the same in Linux? All the DevOps things seem scary and everything seems to start having a price tag in currencies/countries that we could be excluded from. I remember when I was a young sprite, Suse had some nice YaST things that looked policy like.
ZorinOS/Mint/Deepin (skeptical) would be my go to for the end user OS. All of the IT support team have taken a crash course on Mint to do network diagnostics/switch programming and they seem to have taken to the interface with minimal shock and resistance.
My challenge came to the end users and while I have loved Linux for years (don't bother doing network work on Windows anymore) and daily a MacBook at home (SBCs running the house and mini server in the study are all flavours of Debian), but I've never given much thought as to how do I get corporate style setup -- an Active Directory / Co-Pilot type experience of a machine joining the directory and policies and scripts lock down systems and automate a lot of the setup for the IT support team (box to end user desk in 2 hours or less is the goal).
When I took over as the major grump, I set about making group policies and scripts that are/should be considered norm in a corporate. Great, but now how do I do the same in Linux? All the DevOps things seem scary and everything seems to start having a price tag in currencies/countries that we could be excluded from. I remember when I was a young sprite, Suse had some nice YaST things that looked policy like.
ZorinOS/Mint/Deepin (skeptical) would be my go to for the end user OS. All of the IT support team have taken a crash course on Mint to do network diagnostics/switch programming and they seem to have taken to the interface with minimal shock and resistance.
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