Open Source Summit + AI_dev Japan 2024

Linux is incredibly versatile, being a major player in server, mobile and embedded systems, yet your average person can comfortably live their entire life never even seeing a desktop or laptop running Linux. It's hard enough for individual users to overcome this intertia, but it's even harder for organisations. Implementing desktop Linux reaps rewards like digital sovereignty, security, cost reductions and more, but it takes you out of the cozy Windows ecosystem. This talk is an high level overview of what a corporate journey to desktop Linux can look like, the problems that have to be solved along the way, from provisioning to configuration management and most importantly why these migrations fail. It will draw on the speaker's experiences of managing a Linux Desktop estate, and from the wider community.