Linux distribution for enterprise?

Question

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Colleagues, good afternoon.
Please share your experience / advice in the following moment:
Enterprise, ~ 150 machines, a zoo with licenses, hardware and OS versions.
There is an idea to move to a linux distribution, but:
1. Where is the best UI for the user? (elementary, mint, ubuntu,...)
2. What is the best way to organize centralized management?
3. Distribution update without reinstallation? (so as not to stick in dead turnips after 3 years)
4. Support for motley iron, network MFPs and laptops.
5. Should I consider this option at all?
ps: What is the min. cost of Win10Pro from 150 pcs? (Min. price for a license from 9800 rubles. How can this process be cheaper?)
ps2: There is no specific software, an Internet browser, pidgin and office are enough.

Answer 1

If you need a good UI for the user, then you definitely need to look towards Linux Mint - it's easy to learn interface. People who are used to working on Windows can easily understand and switch to Mint.
And in order to organize centralized management, you'd better Ansible - there, starting from automatic installation of programs and ending with setting up configuration files.
Regarding the periphery and others, no one works better than mint. There are all these proprietary codecs, firmware and so on.
So you need mint, preferably with cinnamon - definitely !!! (Linux Mint 19 "Tara" - Cinnamon)
Write a couple of Ansible playbooks and quickly deploy what you need.
Ansible
Linux Mint 19 Tara Cinnamon

Answer 2

For 150 users, you need an IT department that doesn't ask these kinds of questions.

Answer 3

The cost of owning Linux, hiring specialists and retraining employees will be an order of magnitude more expensive than Windows with an office and one Windows administrator.

Answer 4

Installed xubuntu in a small company for the same purpose. Most people don't even notice. They probably think that this is a theme for Windows. Been standing for two years now, no complaints.

Answer 5

Calculate Linux

Answer 6

Somehow everyone advises. There is only one answer to this question - you need to choose the distribution that you yourself know best. If you are an admin. And if you are not going to administer, then they wrote correctly here, the admin or admins must choose.

Answer 7

debian or mint (it's better to set 18.*, not 19 and not cinnamon/cinnamon, but Mate
OnYourLips OnYourLips .

Answer 8

why no one offers ubuntu + ansible?

Answer 9

~150 cars,

And how many people? It's so hard for one...
It is not the UI that is selected, but the distribution - that is, in fact, a package management tool and servers with turnips. Well, or servers with assembly files, if the distribution is source-based. You can attach any UI to any place, and here the taste and color of all felt-tip pens are different. It is the distribution that gives a set of servers with turnips and determines the freshness of the software that will be in them.
If you want a relatively easy life, don't. 150 licenses for Windows, several server licenses, 150 CALs for AD, the same amount for eksch (usually if Windows then mail on eksch) plus the eksch itself - it will pull a few million :D

Answer 10

Take a look at ZorinOS. This is ubuntu with a doped interface. Not so long ago I translated a small office for it, assembled my distro based on zorinos with roughness corrections out of the box. wps office works well as a replacement for msoffice, it is free for linux and works adequately with msoffice files

Answer 11

Support the "domestic manufacturer" - look at AltLinux, the company Basalt (recently rebranded), basealt.ru I've been
using it on the server, though without ui, for 10 years, though I'm the admin myself, but they also have support.

Answer 12

Deepin will be the best solution, it is practically the same design as Windows, stable and ready to use out of the box. In addition, it is equally stable from update to update.

Answer 13

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server + SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is the best solution, as it is tailored for such work.
But here, as OnYourLips said , the cost of ownership also plays a role ...

Answer 14

OS - Debain (stable versions) Much more stable than
Ubuntu/Ubuntu-based distributions, incl. and when upgrading to new versions. Stable versions are licked before release, and in Ubuntu / Ubuntu-based they are often released with bugs, which then govern for several more months. Debian's hardware support is pretty much the same as Ubuntu's.
DE - XFCE/MATE
Not particularly demanding on hardware DE. More fashionable can not be considered, because. zhruchee and whistleblowers are not needed at the enterprise.
Management via Ansible. Playbooks are not particularly complex. Especially if everywhere there is the same OS with the same set of packages and the same configs.