Figure out your mass deployment strategy and the tooling that you'll need to support it. The reason why Ubuntu and rhel are popular in these kinds of sectors is because of this tooling
I work in a company that deals with both commercial and government (military) software. The government is becoming more and more fixated on the software supply chain, or sw dependencies so to speak.
Existing dependencies are largely getting a pass for now, but with each new one I need to give a justification for. This includes the license of that software. I can't use GPL at work.
From the perspective of software preservation, we need this. Sometimes we won't have the source, and just need it to work while also getting security updates.
From the perspective of software delivery: read up on JangaFX's recent article about this topic and the problems they run into delivering software in the present
Sounds like it's possible, but maybe with a backup phone. Unfortunately I do have some apps that I need to be able to run which only support iOS and android
Nextcloud seems like the first set of office tools that has a chance to actually compete with the entirety of Ms office. They still have a long ways to go, but it's a hell of a lot better than just stock libreoffice
The only thing holding me back from asking for an Ubuntu laptop at work is email certificates that we need to install on windows for outlook. Otherwise I'd love to be able to switch
for an entire year's worth of development, I honestly would have expected more. Good to see that improvements are being made, but still, it's pretty small
This 100%. Even if you don't like canonical, you can get Ubuntu for free and then later pay for support if you need. They have experience managing fleets of systems.
There's a post on Reddit where a Brazilian state government org is testing out Ubuntu at scale.
Only helping those who are interested and are willing to debug things. Otherwise, windows 11 or macos it is