• Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    People in this thread seem to be missing this point.

    This is windows server, not windows 11. The consequences is not “I’ll have an annoying taskbar icon on my home computer”, this is enterprise level interference that could affect large systems and thousands of users.

    Linux Mint isn’t an alternative to windows server.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah but Fedora and Debian sure as shit are.

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      3 months ago

      For sure, if you need paid support (which if you aren’t a tech giant, a fledgling startup, or a system with no need for uptime metrics, you probally do) the you have:

      • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (aka SLES and only still Libre option in this category unfortunately)
      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
      • Ubuntu are

      if don’t need paid support then Debian, OpenSuse, Rocky, or Fedora are all good picks.

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      3 months ago

      Almost any Unix can be an alternative for Windows Server. Never understood why it was used, other than tech illiteracy of lowly tech workers who only knew MS stack.

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        3 months ago

        The usual answer to that is “active directory”. It’s not uncommon to have one windows server alongside other Linux servers because of AD.