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Good point, Larry. Under the section "Corporate and enterprise use" I did not address the fact that there are Linux alternatives for Microsoft products or other Proprietary products used in Corporations. That would be a whole new article which needs to be written. For example, LibreOffice could replace MS Office, Evolution or Thunderbird could replace Outlook, Egroupware could replace both Sharepoint and Outlook, Postgres SQL or Maria Db could replace SQL Server, Oracle or MS Access databases, etc.
Thanks for the input, Richard. Perhaps one of the members of this community who has experience setting Linux up as an office workstation would be so kind as to write an article that easily explains how to do it and share it here. I'm sure there are many who already have that experience. From my understanding on how that process works, once you've set up the ideal desktop with the necessary packages, it's just a matter of cloning it to the different desktops whether locally on the PC or using virtualization. I'll let the sys admins with the "experience" expand on this rather than myself. I can only speak from the perspective of personal/home use and me using my Linux desktop for work that I do.