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?

  • Shimitar
    18·
    7 months ago

    Is this on your personal work PC or company wide?

    Be careful not to burn the Linux bridge by being not able to support the transition now… :)

    Edit: what I mean is, if you are responsible for this transition, now study study study… Be very careful and test each setup on a “test” machine before going to deploy for others…

    • pufferfischerpulver@feddit.deOP
      11·
      7 months ago

      Fortunately it’s just my personal machine. Most of the organisation is on macOS anyway.

      It’ll be enough of a challenge to properly transition existing docx to the gsuite were switching to.

      • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
        11·
        7 months ago

        transition existing docx to the gsuite were switching to.

        From a half-proprietary, broken format to a document-as-a-service platform. 🤦

        Well, if gsuite doen’t work out, there’s OnlyOffice/Univention corporate server for selfhosting.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        22·
        7 months ago

        I worked at a company that was all-in on GSuite (now Google Workspace) for five years. They’ve got this covered.

        I do not endorse Google apps. They suck. Web apps suck. Electron apps suck. Native apps are where it’s at.

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
      1·
      6 months ago

      Be very careful and test each setup on a “test” machine before going to deploy for others.

      Or in VMs, making a snapshot before every major change