I've got some thoughts on this. I've found that there are two approaches to centralised management of computers: Installing a pre-made all-in-one product with p

I've got some thoughts on this. I've found that there are two approaches to centralised management of computers: Installing a pre-made all-in-one product with pre-programmed configuration options (Windows with mostly AD, GPOs) and having numerous automatable components that can be stitched together with scripts (UNIX, sometimes Windows with Powershell). I prefer the scripting approach, as it gives me much more flexibility beyond one vendor's products. The scripts can also be shared, just now I'm setting up a second "home" server and I can mostly copy-paste Ansible roles from the first. So a school admin who's somewhat familiar with Linux could start with a complete template. The problem is that familiarity with Linux, some people will run at first sight of scripting. The other problem is that I don't think there's money in developing a shiny boxed solution with marketing. Schools mostly go to Linux for cost savings, you couldn't convince them to pay enough to cover all the expenses of a SW company. A "support group" of school admins that administer Linux desktops might, though, which is where the script-sharing could come in. Less shiny, less "just buy it and we're done", but more likely in my opinion.