Help me choose linux's best option for public school lab (distro, desktop, etc.)
I apologize if my english isn't perfect in how you would say it daily, but I hope it'll help with Linux popularity and as a reference for future days.
For this post specifically I want opinions regarding what would be best for school lab of tech vocational high school (for both computer networking and software engineering).
Package update frequency:
A. Years per update (Debian, OpenSuse Leap)
B. Every 6 month (Ubuntu/Fedora)
C. Rolling Release
(Debian Sid or Arch but update whenever (every week/month/semester/year))
Desktop environment:
A. Gnome
B. KDE Plasma
C. Cinnamon
D. Lightweight DE (XFCE, LXQT, etc.)
E. Other DE (Mate, Budgie, etc.)
F. Stacking Window Manager (Fluxbox, IceWM, Openbox, etc)
G. TIling or Dynamic WM
Community or Company Distro?
A. Community Distro
B. Company Distro
Display server protocol:
A. Xorg
B. Wayland
File System:
A. EXT4
B. BTRFS
C. Other
Immutable?
A. Not Immutable
B. Immutable
Functionality
A. General Purpose (Debian, Arch, OpenSuse)
B. Specific Purpose (Debian Edu, Parrot Linux, AV linux, etc.)
Let me know your opinion, perhaps I missed some critical question or maybe some question above isn't that important to consider.
I'd say go for a rolling, maybe do updates on weekends
The students will very likely appreciate the customizability of Plasma or Cinnamon; if you want them to focus on work, GNOME (probably with some extensions) would be better. Tilers are a bad idea, because they take some getting used to
Doesn't really matter, company distros might be paid tho, and that can obviously get expensive
Wayland if your DE has good support (i.e. is GNOME or Plasma), otherwise X
Btrfs' snapshotting capabilities might be useful to rollback the system to something working if the students fuck something up
Immutable without sudo access should be the safest to hand over to people that you don't want to ruin anything
I don't know enough about specific purpose distros
If you already know Nix, NIxOS would be a good choice