I've worked as a sysadmin (not a school though) and I've researched before how feasible it would be to allow a subset of my users to run Linux as their main cli

I've worked as a sysadmin (not a school though) and I've researched before how feasible it would be to allow a subset of my users to run Linux as their main client. The tooling simply is not there yet. Your only choice is to pay very expensive licenses to either Suse or Red Hat.