Re:money is not the way (Score 2, Interesting)

"Seconded. You'll never get anywhere driving it from the top down with mandatory ....."

I agree, but you could go one step further. Bring in your old laptop of min specs XYZ and we will install the latest and greatest Linux of choices A,B,C at no cost.

Don't give people bats but not balls.

If someone thinks their old laptop of desktop can come up to scratch then they are likely to be a supporter of the idea.

For the record: We did this with our staff and branch network at work.