The best?
Ditched Windows almost completely both for my company as well as my home.
Only two installs (CAD and very specific similar app + we have a very very specific usecase of MS Office features two clients require that no alternative can deliver) of windows remain.
Yeah. Is a strange security feature for doucments with limited viewer groups that auth towards the customer server. Requires full AD and everything.
Even Winboat does not work due to VM detection.
It’s very obscure,but these two clients are somewhat important to us so we jump through the hoops
But,well, basically we only boot into that machine twice a month so I can live with that.
Thanks anyway!
Everything else by now is Linux and either self hosted or with a European provider - funny enough we were a 100% MS shop once and work 100% remote (all my staff work from home and with almost fully flexible scheduling).
And what should I say? Not only does it save money, makes us far more flexible, my staff by now prefers it by far. (And none has any IT background, all with a healthcare background - which is a sector notorious for their lack of IT skills normally) Two weeks ago OI assisted one of them to reinstall her private machine.
(The fact that KDE Plasma is gorgeous helps a lot here)
The only software we universally find lacking is Libre Office - Libre is simply not quite there yet for collaboration and large documents. (And our work often includes advisory opinions that can easily a few hundred pages). We are currently looking into the option of creating our own “document composer” based on Collabora and Latex. But that is a project for 2027.
And sadly CAD is a shitshow on Linux - FreeCAD is totally useless for our use, can not handle the filesize the projects we have and is an nightmare to use and BricsCAD is extremly buggy. Luckily we only need that occasionally so this machine is rarely booted up.
(And there is one Windows based speciality application that requires Windows but that thing happily lives in a VM).
But I can live with that. Besides the mobile phones(Samsung Android due to the MDM requirements) we are fully “Europeanized” by now.
The best? Ditched Windows almost completely both for my company as well as my home. Only two installs (CAD and very specific similar app + we have a very very specific usecase of MS Office features two clients require that no alternative can deliver) of windows remain.
Have you tried https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps?
Yeah. Is a strange security feature for doucments with limited viewer groups that auth towards the customer server. Requires full AD and everything. Even Winboat does not work due to VM detection. It’s very obscure,but these two clients are somewhat important to us so we jump through the hoops
But,well, basically we only boot into that machine twice a month so I can live with that.
Thanks anyway!
Everything else by now is Linux and either self hosted or with a European provider - funny enough we were a 100% MS shop once and work 100% remote (all my staff work from home and with almost fully flexible scheduling). And what should I say? Not only does it save money, makes us far more flexible, my staff by now prefers it by far. (And none has any IT background, all with a healthcare background - which is a sector notorious for their lack of IT skills normally) Two weeks ago OI assisted one of them to reinstall her private machine. (The fact that KDE Plasma is gorgeous helps a lot here)
The only software we universally find lacking is Libre Office - Libre is simply not quite there yet for collaboration and large documents. (And our work often includes advisory opinions that can easily a few hundred pages). We are currently looking into the option of creating our own “document composer” based on Collabora and Latex. But that is a project for 2027.
And sadly CAD is a shitshow on Linux - FreeCAD is totally useless for our use, can not handle the filesize the projects we have and is an nightmare to use and BricsCAD is extremly buggy. Luckily we only need that occasionally so this machine is rarely booted up. (And there is one Windows based speciality application that requires Windows but that thing happily lives in a VM).
But I can live with that. Besides the mobile phones(Samsung Android due to the MDM requirements) we are fully “Europeanized” by now.