Not sure if this is the right place for it, but would anyone be interested in assisting an MSP in helping refine our Linux Stack?
Our goal is to take companies that are currently using a Windows stack and move them over without too much retraining on the user's part.
Our current stack is Linux Mint, LibreOffice, a custom RMM agent, and a few bits and bobs that differ per client, but that's all malleable. We have a stack, I'm just interested in anything that may make it better. Of note, we donate to FOSS monthly for roughly the licensing fees of the non-FOSS alternative that the clients would be using.
EDIT: Further info for some incredibly hostile replies who are seeking to purposely get offended...
As an MSP, the monthly client fee remains the same regardless of if the clients are on Linux, MacOS, or Windows. I assure you, we're not winning new converts with Linux and hoping to capture some untapped market. This isn't a money-maker. We are avoiding e-waste and upcycling machines for free on our own dime. If the client doesn't want to convert, we donate the systems when they are discarded to one of the nonprofits we support for free. Again, switching clients to Linux wouldn't make us any money as we don't bill for project fees. If anything it would make us less money because we're not trying to sell new objects to the client and are signing ourselves up to train and deploy to them. There's no sneaky evil hidden agenda here.
I was never looking for someone to design the entire implementation, just one or two comments saying something to the tune of "X distro / software is easier for newbies, take a look!" or something.
And yet you are asking for free advice to develop a product to sell.
If you do run a MSP, have you looked internally to your own staff?
Why is asking for advice a bad idea even if there is a commercial interest behind it? At least OP is honest about it. Wonder how many of the "asking for advice" post over the years here and elsewhere have had some kind of commercial interest behind them and OP has not disclosed it.
Yes which is why we have several clients already running our current stack that I outlined above. As I said, it's not exactly a money maker, it's more of a passion thing. Also, we're not "selling it," it's something to outfit soon-to-be-sidelined Windows 10 systems with. It will literally cost me more money and hours to keep them from filling a landfill than it would to just dump them. There is no profit motive. No company will join us because of this and no company will leave us if we can't provide it. Your premise is faulty.
And unfortunately I am also the only Linux user on staff so we are limited to my knowledge and what I can dig up.
You don't run a company as a "passion thing"
Yeah, I do. I love I.T. work and messing with computers. I have, in fact, stated that if the government paid 100% of my expenses and I didn't need to work that I'd run computer literacy camps and still do I.T..