Recreating windows active directory experience on linux

For mods: this is not support question, this is meant for discussion. I'm not asking how to do something, I'm asking for opinions on doing something.

So I got this idea in my head and I can't get it out of my head. Back in school, I remember computers being setup with active directory (windows) where you can log into your account on any computer connected to server.

I know what you're gonna say "pfft, yeah so ldap?", here's the catch not quite. LDAP allows for login on all systems with single login which I've done and its quite great but on windows you would get your wallpaper, desktop settings and all the files.

And that gave me an idea. How about tapping into login process, with ldap, so that after successful ldap authentication, home directory is mounted via nfs from server. So that home directory is kept on server and you can log in on any machine and you get your entire home directory.

I'm not sure how useful that would be, and if the os version differs not to mention if DE/os differs, it could cause quite a lot of trouble where each de/software changes configs that are from newer or older versions.

I'm also not sure if anyone has done anything like this before, so what do you guys think about this idea?

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In celebration of accessibility | Georges Stavracas
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Stuck on downloading Linux mint for Chromebook
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What's up with Gnome?

I recently switched to linux after facing some issues with windows (bitlocker was tweaking and the keys never worked so i nuked it and it downgraded to 10 from 11, I prefer 10 anyways but it seemed to annoy me again with other issues so yeah I now switched to linux).

Anyways so I decided upon the Fedora Workstation distro cuz I wanted to forget about windows as a whole so an entirely different ui seemed the way to go, and put that on the hdd on my laptop, with windows still on the c drive SSD, it works amazing, just as fast as windows on an SSD even though fedora is on an HDD which I thought was wild. I also bought an external SSD where I put arch with gnome but I wanted to try out kde so I nuked arch and put debian kde on it (because I don't like the installation process of arch sorry), and I was able to do all kinds of shenanigans on itz right click drop down menu, themes, THE APPLICATIONS TAB CAN MOVE WHERE I WANT IT TO GO? In gnome I have a desktop folder in my default home directory and for what? No reason cuz I can't even put things on the desktop? I love gnome's ui, but why is it so inertial with the way that it is, is there a better way to customise gnome?




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Yes, curl !
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My shot at FOSS: declaro - turn any package manager declarative (AUR too)
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Are NVIDIA drivers worse for handling Desktop Environments or it is a problem of mine?

From my experience with Linux OS's I started to see a pattern that I do not know if it is real or are my senses tricking me, I started to feel that using dedicated nvidia cards have showed me poor DE general performance, like sluggish animations, drags and window resizes, but always that I put my hands on a config with a integrated gpu like intel graphics I did not see this happening, also AMD just works normally, so this is where I started to doubt myself, it is possible that NVIDIA cannot handle such basic and primal activity?

PS.: Once a guy in arch forums told me that NVIDIA sucks in re-rendering contexts, but I did not get why since I was really lay at graphic stuff.

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Graphical checksum remedy

I've learned to checksum .iso and other files from the terminal, and discovered a nice little graphical application that does the same thing. For what works best under as a file manager is fine to me, here I use "thunar", and basically activating "gtkhash" from a custom_actions means it will print the checksum graphically.

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GTX 1080 in 2025
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Linux vs macOS market share
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Would you trust insync?

Hey,

In search of a really good client for Google Drive I have stumbled upon InSync.

It works well, but honestly it feels a bit scarey to give another company "full access" to my personal drive.

Would you trust InSync to get full access to your personal cloud drive?

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PSA: pavucontrol considered harmful to battery life

This is by way of being a PSA.

For far too long, I've wondered why pipewire and pavucontrol were constantly running at 5% in several processes even when no sound was being played.

It also meant I had a constant 100% for my main Audio codec in powertop - sucking down power.

Apparently this is caused by pavucontrol constantly pinging pipewire for status information. Once I killed pavucontrol, the system settled right down. Fortunately, I can live quite well without it.

YMMV

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whonix_builder - { A docker container that automatically builds and verifies Whonix or Kicksecure images using the official Whonix build noscript with dnscrypt and torified onion sources for maximum privacy }
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Do most people in linux use window managers?

Genuine curious if most people that goes into linux try things such as hyprland, iw3m, sway or most just use it by default and don't change it much. I recently changed to arch linux and the first thing I did was using hyprland just because of the fomo and being curious what all this is about. At this point I don't know why am I doing it, if for productivity or some other reason.

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A Comprehensive Guide to package your project to Fedora COPR
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Best music management software (similar to MusicBee)

Hi all,

I had Linux Mint installed a year or so ago but sadly switched back to Windows due to the lack of any decent music management software. I've always used MusicBee on Windows and wondered if there had been any software releases since 2 years back that would suit me?

Thanks all.

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Linux Newbie Einrichtung

Hallo ich habe den Sprung zu Linux gewagt. Ich hatte mich so dachte ich auch gut vorbereitet. Distribution vergleichen geprüft ob das mit meiner Hardware passt usw.
Die Installation fällt mir als Windows dulli jetzt doch wirklich schwer.
Das Grundsystem bekomme ich hin alles kein Stress aber Mint erkennt nur noch einen meiner vier Bildschirme noch dem installieren der Nvidia Treiber ich habe alle Treiber die ich finden konnte versucht ohne Erfolg.
Was ich noch nicht probiert habe ist ein Post den ich eben fand der secure boot als Schuldigen sieht kann es das sein? Was kann es noch sein was muss ich tun? Bitte helft mir ich bin komplett unerfahren und die Foren quellen über mit unterschiedlichsten Möglichkeiten.
Ich habe das Abenteuer Umstieg tatsächlich ein wenig unterschätzt. Danke für eure Hinweise und Tipps.

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My Journey from Windows to Arch btw thank you people

To start off, my journey began with Ubuntu in somewhere around mid 2021s, I had my old laptop and like everyone in the beginning, I dual-booted it alongside Windows 10, liked it, then went full bare-metal Ubuntu but FOMO got to me as Windows 11 was releasing with "so many features" so I reinstalled Windows 10 only to realize my laptop doesn't support Windows 11 due to its insanely stupid requirements, I still stuck on to Windows 10.

Two years later I got a new laptop, nothing fancy but a basic Intel 11th Gen i5 laptop with ig graphics, it did got Windows 11, definitely better than my previous laptop and me thinking 'ah what folly child I was to use a pesky little OS like Linux, pfft' (just kidding)

Only a few months ago, I reinstalled Ubuntu onto it cause I was feeling for it, used it, worked it but I was at my parent's house that time for holidays, and the wifi is pretty bad as they don't use it that much, and I felt the need to upgrade my system and midway thru the upgrade, the wifi tuned off, in a panic move I hit Ctrl+c and ran the 'remove' command (don't remove the exact command) that somehow removed the bootloader (defo my fault now I look back), so I got Windows 11 again.

NOW, a few weeks ago, I thought lets give Arch btw a try, I've done this dance before, I can do it again, so I strapped in a USB and went for it, gotta tell you the level of choice and the customization is beyond par, like I had to install Bluetooth after I was done with everything as I forgot initially, how cool is that! I installed literally fucking bluetooth and I could literally change system shortcuts, something that would kill Windows to do so.

I began using Edge since I literally just accepted MS won't stop shoving it in my ass so I admit defeated, to my surprise, it did ran surprisingly well, even better than Chrome in so many cases but then I realized, the glory is not on the other side, it keeps crashing on here so I've switched to Firefox and you are telling that my OS won't shove a browser down my throat and changing my default ACTUALLY means something?

My office computer still has Windows 11 and I can definitely feel the snappier feeling that Arch has and that's irrespective of hardware as the office computer has a slightly better CPU albiet less RAM and that's definitely a big part as Windows loves to eat up RAM kind-of like Kirby, rn I am at 4.3 GB on Arch with 4 hours of uptime (while having a game downloading from Steam and running Firefox) which in Windows (on my personal laptop) I've also seen at-best during at idle while my office laptop feels like its saying "Sire! Mercy!" even if I just graze more than 4 tabs on Chrome (which I need for my work)

Seriously, I was so afraid to remove Windows as this is my laptop and didn't wanna screw it over, but I am loving Arch experience so much better, its just chef's kiss plus I can say to people the classic phrase, [adjusting my tie\] "I use Arch btw" [a gentle smirk\]

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Installing from Manual Page?

Sup guys, i'm kinda newbie regarding Linux but i've been bashing my head against the wall trying to learn and set up the system and so far, so good. Thing is, I want to install Chitubox on my pc because Lychee seems to be broken or something, always crashing during the slicing process due to a memory leak. Tried everything but nothing seems to work.

I downloaded the Chitubox installer from their website but all i have is a Manual Page file but i dont know how to run it, or even how to access it. I've read about the man command but i just dont know how to use it at all. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

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Is it really that easy?

I have a nvidia gpu and I'm using arch btw. I was using kde x11 since I had bad experiences with wayland and i3 wm in the past. Yesterday out of curiosity I installed Hyprland to see how things were going in terms of compatibility and gaming and to my surprise its incredibly smoth. To be fair after I installed hyprland I used a noscript to set up hyprland (HyDE). This noscript even fixed a problem I was having, the monitor wouldn't display anything after waking up. Once finished, it was beautiful and fairly simple to use. I only modified some keybinds and borders which were so easy to modify in the .config files. So the question is, Is it really that easy? Will this break after an update?

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I was reading this furry comic from 2000 and found this mention of Linux
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