After convincing my employer to move away from MS office I can finally make the permanent switch away from windows.

I settled on pop_os for now since it supports hybrid Nvidia graphics out of the box and I am a noob.

Two questions:

  1. I used OneDrive, and especially the file on-demand (all files on server visible in explorer but only downloaded when needed) feature a lot. What cloud storage provider has the best Linux integration? I dabbled with NeXtCloUD but the Linux client is not great, especially the file on-demand implementation.

  2. What are best practices for managing apps? The last time I entertained the idea of switching, I ended up with applications installed from the snap store, flatpacks, some appimages, some through apt. It quickly gets confusing for me when I want a specific program but it, f.ex., is only distributed through the snap store. Is there a GUI (I know) way to see all applications, where they’re installed from, with an easy remove button? Akin to what windows offers?

    • luckyeddy@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Id imagine the discussion would go like “something something Linux = free something something Windows = money, hence save money by going linux” 🤓

        • pufferfischerpulver@feddit.deOP
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          5 months ago

          Ding ding ding

          From one evil to another…

          The discussion went like nobody is properly using the SharePoint, but instead people send emails with poorly version numbered documents. After a couple of attempts to educate the users my argument was to drop the hammer: if you’re forced to work online you’re more likely to work in the shared folders. If that’s true, we’ll see. But in the meantime I can get rid of windows. Most of the organisation is on macOS anyway.

    • pufferfischerpulver@feddit.deOP
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      5 months ago

      See my comment below, we’re moving to gsuite. Basically, we have a problem with people not using the SharePoint but instead sending poorly version numbered documents per mail.
      My argument was that if you’re forced to work online you’re more likely to do so in the shared folder. We’ll see if that’s true but at least we can get rid of office. Most of the organisation is on macOS anyway. And we use zulip for communication.

  • Shimitar@feddit.it
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    5 months ago

    Is this on your personal work PC or company wide?

    Be careful not to burn the Linux bridge by being not able to support the transition now… :)

    Edit: what I mean is, if you are responsible for this transition, now study study study… Be very careful and test each setup on a “test” machine before going to deploy for others…

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
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      4 months ago

      Be very careful and test each setup on a “test” machine before going to deploy for others.

      Or in VMs, making a snapshot before every major change

  • chi-chan~@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    In Pop!_OS, you have the Pop!_Shop, and they added their own repos for software aren’t included in Ubuntu’s repo or exist mainly as Snap packages; they also included Flathub.

    Under the app name you want to install, you’ll have a little drop-down box with option to choose (if there’s more than one option) where to download the package from.

    • rambos@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Pop!_Shop

      That app was slow and laggy for me. I started using app called “Software” and that one is amazing.

      I don’t know why we have 2 stores preinstalled and what is the difference

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    5 months ago
    1. Good that only you do this, as a whole company setup is complex
    2. Pop_OS is currently not that well maintained afaik, their GNOME desktop is quite outdated.

    Just using their OS for the hybrid graphics support is a valid point, but should not be the only one.

    Having a well managed OS is crucial, but I disagree that Ubuntu base is the best here.

    For stability, a centrally managed Fedora Atomic would be better I think. Way more stable, image-based, all peolple would have exactly what they need.

    You could build images locally and take care of the exact updates like that. Or you just share specific configs for each role, like preinstalling different software.

    But having things like specific policies, any files, hardening etc. is totally possible during image creation.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Pop_OS is currently not that well maintained afaik, their GNOME desktop is quite outdated

      The shit people say in here sometimes…