No solidarity with bigots.

Funny what happens when you have a government that actually gives a shit.

It’s really not though. Most of what you can do with Office can be done with other tools, you just have to learn how to use them.

There are several CM tools already available. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, etc. Just pick one.

You say that like it’s not already focused on. The majority of Internet infrastructure runs on Linux.

I also work for the state and it’s pretty discouraging how MS has us by the balls on everything. Every application we use is written in VB.net or Visual C# which also depend on running on a Windows server. Switching to Linux would be a nightmare and cost millions for no real gain. Maybe we could run SQL Server on Linux but I’m sure that even that has some gotchas that the state would not want to deal with.

Which Linux? The installation process for most distributions these days is pretty simple.