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public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) (euro-stack.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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they will save 188,000 € on Microsoft license fees per year

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The advantage Windows has is Intune for device management.
The disadvantage is having to use Intune.

Linux is just much easier to script an install an manage using any of the IaC tools you might already be using for your servers. Yes, you can manage Windows with the same tools but it just isn't as reliable in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The best thing about R is that it was made by statisticians. The worst thing about R is that it was made by statisticians.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is my biggest thing. How come nobody really has any MDM or MEM for Linux? One that actually offers everything that Intune does.

Hell i even use AD (Yes Microsoft Active Directory) on my Linux servers because it actually works

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are several CM tools already available. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, etc. Just pick one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I've tried all of them but none of them are quite as fully featured as the M365 platform. That's really where they get you. It offers MDM, MEM, email, account control, file shares, antivirus, patch scanning, group policy, and countless other things all under one platform.

None of those are really a whole ecosystem.