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    Has Anyone Evaluated Windows vs Linux Desktops

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    • BRRABillB
      BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said:

      As we have seen this past fortnight, Windows licensing can be a pretty big deal. Eliminating all of the licensing overhead completely can be pretty big.

      You are welcome. 😉

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      • dafyreD
        dafyre @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said:

        @Dashrender said:

        Its funny - @johnhooks is probably right, yet I know most if not all of NTG run Windows as their main machines. lol

        Mostly because we are 100% MS infrastructure. MS Office, Office 365, Microsoft CRM, Sharepoint, AD on Azure, Azure AD (both, it's confusing.)

        Are all of these inaccessible on a Linuxbox? O365 can be wired in to Evolution via its Exchange Connectors. I'm unsure about which Microsoft CRM product you are talking about (Dynamics? or something else?), but there's a plethora of CRM products available for LInux and as Web Apps.

        The CRM product and Sharepoint are the only things that I'm not certain of 'equivalents' for in Linux.

        Edit: I use the term Equivalents loosely.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          Nearly everything works on Linux except for RSAT style tools.

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre
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            I'd imagine that some of them could be run via Wine, or as a Remote App from your Azure infrastructure (assuming that doesn't change the licensing for your Azure VMs).

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              Running RSAT from Azure would mostly defeat the purpose since we'd already be RDP'd into the thing we wanted to avoid RDPing into 🙂

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                Has anyone tested RSAT on Wine?

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                • brianlittlejohnB
                  brianlittlejohn
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                  RSAT on Wine would be interesting...im curious if anyone has tried it as well.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
                    last edited by

                    @brianlittlejohn said:

                    RSAT on Wine would be interesting...im curious if anyone has tried it as well.

                    Sounds like a good evening project for someone 😉

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                    • brianlittlejohnB
                      brianlittlejohn @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller I would but I don't even have a machine with Linux on it right now. 😞

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
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                        @brianlittlejohn said:

                        @scottalanmiller I would but I don't even have a machine with Linux on it right now. 😞

                        Fail

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                          Jason Banned @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          Has anyone tested RSAT on Wine?

                          Pretty sure they won't they are a windows update package and rely on too many windows features to work.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @Jason
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                            @Jason said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            Has anyone tested RSAT on Wine?

                            Pretty sure they won't they are a windows update package and rely on too many windows features to work.

                            That would be my expectation. As it does not even work between Windows versions, working on Wine seems unlikely.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              We are doing this now, actually. I just stumbled on this while searching for a different desktop topic but the timing is apropos. @gjacobse and I are looking into testing Linux Mint desktops in our environment. This is only for IT people, thus far, but so far the experience has been very good as we go into the first days of trying it.

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                              • dafyreD
                                dafyre
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                                I like your write-up on X2Go. That seems a viable replacement for RDP / Terminal Services -- even running in a VM.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  Thanks. We are starting to roll it out more and more now that the team has discovered how effective it is.

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                                  • dafyreD
                                    dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller I've been looking for a good Terminal Services equivalent on Linux for a long time. I don't know how long X2go has been around, but I'm glad you found it, lol.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      X2Go is relatively new. But NX is old. I feel like we've been using both official NoMachine NX as well as FreeNX for a decade. And 2X, who competes with NX, was a member of SpiceCorps DFW.

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                                      • dafyreD
                                        dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                                        @scottalanmiller I've usd the Android 2X RDP app a few times. It's not to terribly bad.

                                        Slightly same subject... are there any X2Go clients available for Android?

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
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                                          X2Go is just NX. So any NX client would work.

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                                          • stacksofplatesS
                                            stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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                                            @scottalanmiller said:

                                            X2Go is just NX. So any NX client would work.

                                            So what's the functional difference between NX and X11 forwarding?

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