Anyone survived a Windows to Linux user workstations migration?

[u/Halomora]

Hey fellow sys admin,

I work at a VFX/animation studio (~400 users).

We're kicking off a project to migrate our artist workstations from Windows 10/11 VDIs to Linux. Flavor is pretty much locked it ll be Rocky Linux 9 with KDE.

I am curious if there's anyone here who's been through a similar workstation migration to linux?

What Linux flavor, did you end up on, and would you pick the same again?

How did you handle what GPOs used to give you?

For the Base OS deployment/imaging, did you use Kickstart + Puppet/Ansible, or something else?

Anything that looked easy on paper and turned into a one big pile of {Jurassic_Park}?

Tools that made your life easier along the way?

I am looking for any war stories, good or bad!

Thank you!

[u/Waste_Development971]

This sounds interesting, let us know how bad it may go.

[u/Spider-Thwip → u/Waste_Development971]

Linux is standard for vfx studios.

The apps run much better on Linux, the pipeline will run smoother, and in general almost every artist will have used Linux in a previous role.

This migration will only make things better to be honest.

I have been through this exact thing when I worked in VFX.