Just wanna know if there’s anyone managing and supporting a company-wide linux desktop deployment.
What are the hurdles during first adoption phase, what day to day support is like and which software are being used?
Just wanna know if there’s anyone managing and supporting a company-wide linux desktop deployment.
What are the hurdles during first adoption phase, what day to day support is like and which software are being used?
What kind of business? The only place I worked that ran exclusively Linux, i.e. not in a VM on top of Windows, was Opera Software. Everybody got to install and manage their own computer, which might not be ideal from a security standpoint.
Most places I’ve worked use Linux VM:s on top of Windows, I’m guessing probably because management and/or the IT department only knows Windows and can’t imagine life without it :/ Subsequently the vast majority of issues have been either directly related to Windows/Office/Teams, or accessing Windows shared drives etc. from Linux.
Vagrant seemed pretty convenient when deploying identical development environments, if that could be of any help to you.
Non-IT. Which makes it harder. Just a mid size distribution business. The thing is we’re from Myanmar and everyone’s so used to cracked proprietory software, even big companies. Got virus? Reinstall everything.
Now we’re trying to make everything legit and licensing fees are getting a bit much, especially O365. For now I’m just trying to push non-power users toward libreoffice.
Making people use Google Docs is much easier.