In case you haven’t migrated away from Windows 10 and feel stuck, or saw 11 and feel despair in a major upgrade you don’t need, feel free to reach out to us. Likewise, has the Mac OS “vision” failed to keep you motivated to upgrade when OS X seemed fine as a UX and somehow now feels worse. And yet, you can’t make a move because you need something IT friendly. There are options. Since your developers are already using Linux in the cloud, it is time, possibly, to start to think about moving a larger portion of your teams to a Linux Desktop. Things are tilting slightly this way, finally, in 2025. The year of the Linux Desktop, it has been said.

Where to start? Depends on where you are at the moment. Windows 10 (and stuck): you need to make a move to 11, pay to stay on 10, or get off. You can still retain Office applications via the cloud, or run in VMs. 11 appears to be a long term series of potholes and challenges with “AI” integrated along with ads in your desktop, features you did not ask for. What to do? Look at viable Linux desktops and laptops. Depending on your IT model (you have IT or you self-support) you will be somewhere in the spectrum of Ubuntu to Arch Linux.

For those who want to start to work in the same environment they already use in the cloud, for devs, something like Omarchy or NixOS can be a fresh approach to working, even using AI, in your daily workflow.

For our customers, if they are not spec’ing the OS, we will be using NixOS to get the reproducibility where possible. This applies to cloud and to embedded ARM devices (we will still use Yocto / OE / OpenWRT when it is required). This year I decided I am done dealing with broken Ubuntus and upgrade/migration nightmares. And of course, this is the last time I will be installing a new Windows 11 system, and I will not be moving to Windows 12 or 26. Gamers, yes, you too can game on Linux.

Feel free to contact us if you need help sorting this out. Thanks for reading. (Written by human intelligence, HI.)

Originally posted on LinkedIn. Related services: NixOS for Enterprise and NixOS for ARM Devices.