Re:Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion
by kakwa_ on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:41PM
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This is called a Thinkpad.
I'm running Debian on a Thinkpad at work, this work great... except for a few points.
It's always a bit harder to integrate with the rest of the internal infrastructure:
* AD integration in your favorite email client to have auto-completion on emails is a bit tedious
* Exchange calendars are also annoying
* Mounting (and, first, finding) the windows shares can a bit tedious
* Password renewal is not integrated that well
It works, but it takes a few hours to figure out and configure.
And sometimes you are just stuck with Windows/OS X because of a specific piece of software (for example in my case, the video conferencing tool we are using). I never used a truly Linux only environment in professional context, I always had a Windows VM also.
I'm running Debian on a Thinkpad at work, this work great... except for a few points.
It's always a bit harder to integrate with the rest of the internal infrastructure: * AD integration in your favorite email client to have auto-completion on emails is a bit tedious * Exchange calendars are also annoying * Mounting (and, first, finding) the windows shares can a bit tedious * Password renewal is not integrated that well
It works, but it takes a few hours to figure out and configure.
And sometimes you are just stuck with Windows/OS X because of a specific piece of software (for example in my case, the video conferencing tool we are using). I never used a truly Linux only environment in professional context, I always had a Windows VM also.