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What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you are talking about a small minority of users. what percentage of users use autocad at all?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not many, but plenty use various corporate applications that are Windows-only.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

such as?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As an engineer, all my jobs so far have used niche internal corporate software which would only be available for Windows. This would be Document Management Systems (DMS's), internal reporting tools (progress and hour keeping), software distribution programs etc.

And of course the engineering tools themselves are often only built for Windows, whether it's proprietary PLC programming environments or CAD software.

That said, I can run both WSL and a corporate-approved Debian VM on the same work laptop as a compromise, for whatever makes sense for the task. Still sucks though! At home I'm a Debian fanboy 4 lyfe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

you are still talking about niche software though

in my office about 90% of people there could be using linux for their daily tasks with no issues.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting, how would that work if your corporate IT department uses an (Azure/Entra) active directory system? Can you use a bare metal Linux OS on a Microsoft-based domain service? Asking out of ignorance and curiosity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

you can actually, and id bet theres a linux native domain management system that works better.