Depends if you're masochist enough to run Samba. It can deal with the lower stack side pretty well, but the administration UI options available all pale in comp

Depends if you're masochist enough to run Samba. It can deal with the lower stack side pretty well, but the administration UI options available all pale in comparison to native Microsoft. In any case many are shifting towards not running AD any more and instead use JAMF and similar solutions. Less attack risk (because let's face it, it's really really easy to shoot yourself into the foot with AD), and more buzzwords for the buzzword-happy C suite.