Setting Up Linux Classroom

Hi all. I’m a High School Comp Sci and Cyber teacher and we’re playing with the idea of making our lab linux machines instead of windows. I was originally thinking mint bc that was my first distro but think I’ll end up using bazzite as an easy out of the box immutable system for better security and can be used for fun game days. It’s my daily driver at home but am open to other ideas!

My question is this: Are there any good management systems like active directory for linux? Ideally I can push updates or installs for all machines at once which I’ve heard PXE boot is good for, but I’m not sure if it’s possible to have a system where the student’s linux login works on any of the machines and pulls their files? We have the money to host that info on a server and they mostly use google accounts anyways so it wouldn’t take up much storage. Thanks for any help

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