I used to straddle the two worlds, maintained and supported a multi-site AD domain with AFS integration for user $HOME and some sort of unholy LDAP/kerberos bridge for login. About once every year or two I'll miss something about the way Windows does things, compared to normal (meaning "linux"). Like the NTFS permissions model, that's cool.
But it's just once a year :) And the last time I was deep in windows was win7, whenever that was. I tried to use a win10 machine and gave up.
Besides, I thought the big new feature in modern windows was that WSL improved to the point you can run unix tools! ;)
> About once every year or two I'll miss something about the way Windows does things, compared to normal (meaning "linux"). Like the NTFS permissions model, that's cool.
FreeBSD would be up your alley. Its native ACLs are NFSv4 format, a superset of NTFS ACLs. You need to enable it explicitly on UFS2, but it's default on ZFS.
> and some sort of unholy LDAP/kerberos bridge for login
It's really not that bad, the AD-IPA cross-forest trust is really solid as is the native sssd-ad integration if IPA is too much. Honestly I can't really imagine it any other way now, so much work has been put into AD support that it's actually the best login experience on Linux at the moment. OpenLDAP is definitely showing its age -- dgmr I use it for all my personal infra because it's free and my use-cases are dead simple but we got to delete so much bespoke code after migrating off it at work.
I'm not sure, and you undoubtedly know more and are more up to date than I, but I don't believe any of these things existed in 2005, when I was on the aforementioned team. Or, maybe they did exist but management decided an internal implementation was better.
Getting Windows to accept the user profile in an AFS path I recall being particularly vexing.
>universal
* laughs in Windows, then cries *