Posts by Zwack 9 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jun 2020
> If they were moved to Linux or Mac OS and the keyboard shortcut could not be assigned, I'd have had to teach them how to use a desktop.
The word if is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. It took me about a minute to set up that shortcut in xfce despite never having done that before. I will be shocked if whatever distribution they are using does not have a keyboard macro function.
There are automated solutions for remote management depending on what distribution you are using.
A lot of the tools for server management can just as effectively be used to manage desktops. Yes, it removes some aspects of local control, but in every enterprise that is restricted anyway.
Tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Cfengine,... Can all be used to install software on machines and configure it. This can be done in either a push or pull model.
If you are not using a network service for account management in an enterprise then I will be shocked.
In what way doesn't it?
As far as a word processor goes it works.
For a spreadsheet, well, I've seen enough issues between versions of Excel that Libre office seems to work well enough.
Access is barely a database, so there are many alternatives.
Presentations seem to work, but that isn't something I do very often.
Visio is the one tool from Microsoft that I haven't been able to find a great replacement for. But then how many people really need Visio at your work?
