3 ms·
Anything but Ubuntu. They willingly have way too many "open source politics shenanigans" to be considered viable for the first taste of Linux. (Have been burn
by lithos 3y ago
Anything but Ubuntu. They willingly have way too many "open source politics shenanigans" to be considered viable for the first taste of Linux. (Have been burned a few too many times by trying to do even simple things like installing Steam, not even having an image with restricted extras already installed, and how happy the team is to kill user apps like Wine over and over).
Compared to other distros like Manjaro or Mint, I consider Ubuntu as "Given Up".
- cyberbanjo 3y agoActive Directory is allegedly supported in Ubuntu so that makes it seems most ready for fleet deployment for existing edu IT teams.
- sekh60 3y agoActive directory is supported by most distros. Either via winbind or the more modern sssd.
- cyberbanjo 3y agoSupported in what sense? I meant that you could pay Ubuntu for support beyond it being pre-baked into the distro, which seems rare if not exclusive to Ubuntu.
- nightowl_games 3y agoI use mint but for an educational institution Ubuntu makes a ton of sense due to the premium support options
- morjom 3y agoAfter using Manjaro for a good 2 months I'd pick Mint over Manjaro any day of the week. I'm moving back to plain Arch or maybe i'll try out Garuda since I'm gonna do btrfs and wayland. for education Fedora would be my pick. /ramble over