bradd

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[โ€“] bradd@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

They're purposely not getting it.

[โ€“] bradd@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

One of the biggest hurdles, and one of the only reasons Windows is still alive. Linux doesn't have a decent AD alternative.

I think I heard some very large governments, maybe Germany, was going to completely abandon Windows soon. This will generate a ton of demand for an AD alternative so I'm excited to see what happens.

Until then you have ansible, or salt may be more suitable for workstations ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] bradd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oh, gotcha, that would be more successful for sure.

[โ€“] bradd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

as soon as you say "make an account" their eyes will glaze over. if not, as soon as they hear "instance" their eyes glaze over. if not, as soon as they hear "whichever one you like best" their eyes will glaze over.

[โ€“] bradd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

till they throw you the curveball that they can indeed talk to someone on twitter from facebook.

[โ€“] bradd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

This is exactly like email though.

You have a gmail account that is tied to google. You have to login to gmail to access your email but you can email anyone in the world. Some people use different providers so they have different email addresses.

If you want to change providers there is no easy way to do it. You can use imapsync or export to pst and import to new provider and so on, or maybe your new provider gives you tools for importing mail from your old mailbox but it's not a feature of email protocol(s) to do this.