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.
I work at a startup, and simply started using Linux once I became valuable. Nobody could really say much
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.
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
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.
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…
The company I work at has ~100 employees at our location (there are other locations too, but they each work rather independently).
We primarily use Windows throughout the company, but anyone who wants can run Linux. So we have ~20 people or so running Linux.
It’s primarily people in Software Engineering that use Linux, and here mostly devs and devops. In these areas there is more than enough software for Linux, so that’s not an issue. We sadly use Microsoft’s office stuff a lot, so we have Teams, Exchange and their cloud stuff. So on Linux we use teams-on-linux and Prospect Mail (third-party wrapper apps for Microsoft’s cloud stuff), and they work about as well as you’d expect third-party wrappers for Microsoft’s cloud stuff. Screen sharing apparently still doesn’t work on Wayland, so X11 it is.
A big hurdle is the DPI (=>deep packet inspection) solution that is used in the office, since it doesn’t play nice with Linux for some reason. That took a while to get to work correctly.
DPI? There are at least 4 expansions for that.
Sorry, DPI = Deep packet inspection, not Dots per inch. Just when reading your comment I noticed the possible confusion.
Google.
They have really good support people, much of the resources are shared with their infrastructure, they have their whole internal software ecosystem.
The question was about small to midsize companies though…
K, my current startup then, though it’s a mix of Linux and Mac and the support is just weird really, mostly we just help each other over slack.
Forgot to mention it’s a non-tech company.
I just wanna know if there’s any small company running mostly Linux ecosystem with some IT governance like LDAP-based authorizations and policies. There are probably clients of companies like red hat doing that, but I think they might be giant corps.
Doubtful there are many, at that scale you often outsource it and those firms do the bare minimum of mail and windows support, Linux experience is harder to come by.
