I’m wondering how this actually works. I don’t think our IT team would ever allow it, but even if they did, you’d have to be able to run everything M$ (Teams, excel, etc), onedrive/sharepoint, windows specific software like CAD, Bluebeam, use Chrome-only software like Autodesk stuff -

It seems kind of dumb to even do that, since you’d be locked into that M$ ecosystem anyway. But I’m curious if anyones done it.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    I once worked as a sysadmin at a Windows-only small business (a few dozen employees total.)

    I never had an issue switching to Linux on my laptop. I used Reminnia to RDP into all our Windows servers. I used the browser versions of Outlook, Teams, and Word. All our network devices and VMWare host had web interfaces that I accessed from my browser. Our Entra permissions for email and our cloud-side stuff was all in the browser too.

    I used some FOSS PDF reader/editor for PDFs, printing worked without any tweaking. I had a basic Windows VM on my system for the one Windows-only program that I occasionally needed to test.

    But of course, being the entire IT department by myself meant that I could do that without getting approval from anybody other than the owner, and he said he didn’t care what OS I used on my laptop, as long as it didn’t hurt my ability to keep everything up to date, secure, and our users happy.