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Using Gnu+Linux at work
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Putting on my enterprise hat, most companies are going to want some form of paid support. Canonical and Suse are probably the two trustworthy players in that space (from an enterprise perspective, I really don't trust Canonical) now that RedHat has developed some form of paranoia. If it were up to me I'd push for SUSE. I think Nix is super great and fantastic but I'm a DevOps engineer, not a support desk engineer, so I view deployments and support differently than someone who has to answer questions about how to open email