The writing is on the wall–I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.

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    3 things I’m still looking to get in one distro and Windows will be gone. Not looking to have my desk/lap turn into another ad platform like phones did.

    Easy drive mapping for remote shares, most have this but some are a bit clunky.

    Solid games support, mostly a WINE thing. One called Bazzite looks promising with a pile of pre-configured profiles.

    Easy and reliable connection to a DC so the same creds can be used across multiple machines. This is probably the hardest part in Nix at this point.

    Otherwise pretty well every app I use is web based and hosted on some local server, or has a Nix native variant.

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      I wonder if Fedora would have a toolchain for networked credential management, with its connection to RedHat and everything

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        Probably worth a shot. I’ve gotten it working on a version of Ubuntu in the past, but it was far from the simplicity of select domain, give join creds, and reboot that it is with Windows yet.

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        I know it exists, have gotten it working with one of those AD compatible samba based DCs before, but not without some messing about. I’d really like to see it as simple as it is in Windows before saying it’s a drop in replacement.

        Tried the other day with Mint and ran into something where one of the searches promoted manually editing the hosts file to point to the DC and Kerberos address. That kind of thing shouldn’t be required and is the kind of buggery I’d like to see sorted out.