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Comment by lazylizard

6 years ago

99% of the desktops in my office are ubuntu. A few are centos or windows. Laptops usually come with windows so we don't remove it. Some are mac. Shared resources like email, shared storage,vpn, wifi and cluster access auth via ldap. Most of the windows desktops belong to the admin group. We host our own...everything..from dns to room booking. Most of it run on lxc on proxmox. The most painful things to do here..one of them is definitely licensing.

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lazylizard  6 years ago

Linuxes are easy. All you need is ssh access. Ansible can do everything afterwards. Much easier to troubleshoot. Windows are hard. Very hard to troubleshoot. And so many ports open but still hard to remotely manage.

  • lazylizard  6 years ago

    Like adding printers. A line in /etc/cups/client.conf will suffice for all the linux machines. I can even add that via ansible. Windows requires installing drivers n clicking things in the gui for each printer. Its like 100 times more effort to do the same chores...