I'm at a school. We've got hardware for VMs but zero budget. I was/am tasked with getting a basic Git server up-and-running, and GitLab hit the necessary points

I'm at a school. We've got hardware for VMs but zero budget. I was/am tasked with getting a basic Git server up-and-running, and GitLab hit the necessary points of (a) running on a Linux VM (b) having a GUI for Git and (c) being free. I could see us using GitHub further down the road after we get some best practices in place and start using Git more, but for the time being GitLab is an excellent way to test the waters, especially since the GitHub Windows and Mac apps will work with an arbitrary 'origin' URL.