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?
Using Linux in my company doing Software Engineering. Everything is fine, except the lack of some specialized tools like properitary compilers.
Not exactly you question, as it is a small installation there is not much support. The biggest issue by far is the acceptance from business partners, which stick to their office365 and won‘t accept anything Otter.
Don’t know why people are such sticklers for msoffice even when they’re not power users. I’m having a hard time pushing just libreoffice, let alone Linux in my company.
BSA and Microsoft will always nag business about office… They do threaten any uni/education uni in Asia, if we don’t have any license or having MoU or buy from them, they will find even tiny small wrong doing, either if you student are using pirate windows, they will blame the uni, and bring it to the court… We only buy the Education pack yearly because last time it doesn’t end well with BSA…
Even I have office license yearly… Family pack. I only need the one drive 1TB, just it’s cheaper with family package… Than Google or others. I do know idrive or pcloud, but idrive or pcloud in Linux isn’t great in bisync using rclone… 😢
Yah I don’t blame them for not liking Otter. I’m more of a beaver fan myself
I work at a startup, and simply started using Linux once I became valuable. Nobody could really say much
A place I used to work at, Sol1, supported Linux on the desktop for small businesses in Sydney, Australia. They’re a ~10 person company and are really casual, so they’d probably be happy to answer any questions.
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.
Working at a small software company for the summer, the dev team I’m on all uses Linux - there isn’t even a setup for windows. Don’t know how that decision was made though, it was way before my time. But it was very nice to come in and see a thinkpad with kubuntu on it.
Other teams use windows though, QA and some non-technical roles like sales.
There’s a lot of Microsoft stuff used (office, teams) but the web apps work fine, and we do most stuff in slack anyway.
I’m interested in this as well. Also is anyone using libre accounting or crm software? Gnucash seems legit, I’ve never used the foss crm stuff but it also seems good from the outside
Dolibarr is Well Known in Europe, also Odoo, but they are near ERP than accounting.
Mostly accounting software nowadays are lean towards akunting based on Laravel stuff…
We’ve been using a customized ERPNext for about 7 years though. But it’s just a web-based application, so any client’s fine.
