Also big in healthcare/medical products,btw.

A lot of points you mention can be achieved with Univention (a debian based central management environment) and a few extra steps. Should be possible, imho.

It depends on what you want. If you want a solution that makes sure your provider won’t be able to read your data? It is sure safe for that.

Generally I would distrust any company claiming that our swiss privacy laws are worth a dime - in fact they are removed and among the worst in Europe. Swiss intelligence laws actually force companies to cooperate in a much broader sense than even the national security laws in the US do. And of course there is no judge involved and they can basically share the collected data with whoever they want.

Because with proven concepts the swiss intelligence services would be locked out. And now people have to trust their claims of “swiss privacy laws” (who are removed - the worst in Central Europe. Switzerland had multiple scandals, from a system that had intelligence files on a large percentage of their “unreliable” citizens as part of the “Fichenskandal” to them recently admitting that most internet traffic within and all traffic leaving and entering Switzerland is monitored by the swiss intelligence services - without so much as a judges permit). Yeah, I know, they are audited…But since Snowden we all know how much that is worth.

There were some really really cheap mobile phones made specifically for economically disadvantaged countries. India had a few as well.

Additionally Sanctions sometimes play a role - GApps don’t work everywhere.

SUSE?

That’s more for the Christian fellas, I think.

While the Linux integration wasn’t a huge deal for me I just wanted to add one point: Be aware of the fine dust situation laser printer create and why some people are having issues. For home use a inkjet is sometimes preferrable if one can’t position it right (as we often can’t at home)

Sadly at least in the last test I read Brother was one of the worst offenders together with HP.

(I still have one but keep it in my office away from the living areas)