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?

  • @Pantherina@feddit.de
    4•7 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 Pop_OS is currently not that well maintained afaik, their GNOME desktop is quite outdated.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.