I’m asking because they’re might be a way for me to have a Linux laptop at work. But I’d like it to be connected to the Active Directory for login and other accesses. I’m specifically thinking of installing either Kubuntu or Zorin OS. (Zorin seems better)
Anyone got experience with this? How did it go? Was there any advantages or disadvantages in having you computer connected to AD for login?
Yes, joining AD is trivial. But you’re going to have to configure PAM to use it for authentication yourself, which is non-trivial. Nor are you going to benefit from group policy, including automatic cert policy if your org uses it.
If you don’t have a dedicated Linux team at work, I wouldn’t bother. You can use it, but you’ll be doing a whole bunch of integration work too. (Or, obviously, just use Linux, do the minimum to comply with policy, then provide creds as necessary to access network resources.)