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Has anyone in a windows dominated workspace actually tried using Linux on their device? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 14 points 2 months ago

I do that. Teams webclient works fine, Office web version suffices for basic things, VS Code works perfectly on Linux, and for the rest, I have a https://devbox.microsoft.com/

Running Linux affords me the possibility to be snide when inevitably something fails to work right on coworkers' Windows machines. When my Linux box fails to work right, at least I know how to fix it.

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