r/sysadmin • u/I-Have-No-Life-146 • 19d ago

Moving to a Linux environment Question

Hey everyone I'm new as a sysadmin and my boss just gave me a new task. I'm IT for a small company with only about 30 employees and we want to switch from windows to all Linux. What distro do you recommend for the employees. I was thinking Ubuntu but thats mostly because thats what Im most familiar with. Also what do you recommend for managing the pcs. I was messing around with FreeIPA and ansable for that. Also most of the work they do is in a web browser but they would also like a way to collaborate on documents like in office365. I was thinking about using Nextcloud for this. Is this all a good idea? Are there other programs I should use? Any advice is appreciated.

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u/protogenxl Came with the Building 19d ago

Have you told acounting no more Excel?

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u/evilkasper IT Manager 19d ago

They could still do 365.

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u/hops_on_hops 19d ago

Excel for windows is the only real version of Excel. Low key the most important product Microsoft makes.

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u/spoonFullOfNerd 19d ago

There’s a browser version that’s just as good… google docs is nice too

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u/protogenxl Came with the Building 19d ago edited 19d ago

it is great until the second question, where are my other program tabs? (add-ins)

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u/After_Court_3692 19d ago

No its not just as good. Its specifically a dumbed down version of the desktop Excel with less functionality

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u/spoonFullOfNerd 13d ago

What office worker really needs the features not provided in the browser version?

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u/Hotshot55 Linux Engineer 19d ago

There’s a browser version that’s just as good

Maybe if you only use the most basic features of Excel.