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submitted 1 year ago by Krahos@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Hello everyone, my company (our department is of around 150+ developers/machine learning people/researchers) is currently considering switching from Windows to Gnu+Linux for company devices (as in the machines we use in our daily work) and we are currently in the phase of collecting requirements. I'm not in charge of the process or involved in the decision phase, but as an enthusiast I'm curious about it. We handle data and other sensitive resources, so the environment should remain managed by the IT department (what's possible to install, VPNs, firewalls, updates and similar). What do companies generally use in this kind of scenario? I'm assuming they generally do some stuff with either Canonical or Red Hat, but are there alternatives? Are there ways to do something that works across distributions by using flatpak or the nix package manager? What are your experiences?

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[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

the advantage of a Linux Desktop is allowing a dev to customize the desktop and packages

Again, who says they can't? A Linux repository works as a catalog of software (packages) where you can pick and choose what to install.

Distribution != Desktop: As an IT overlord, I can dictate what distro you use, but you can pick your ~~poison~~ desktop as long as it is compliant.

combined with no native MS Office apps

Use Office 365 like everyone else or just a proper solution that doesn't have finicky WYSIWYG.

no Adobe apps

How many need Adobe apps in a company? Then you provide an alternative for those few.

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