The day I don’t want to jump ship to the latest new tech is the day I stagnate into an old person

So far every job I’ve had or seen the inside of has used teams

As with all things in business, good enough is king

I actually don’t mind it being web based, there are a lot of web based tools that run perfectly fine and don’t use that much resource

Teams is generally stable for me running the pwa in Microsoft edge nowadays too

I switched a while ago.

Full office suite works fine on web including teams

I had switched to vscode from visual studio anyway so that wasn’t an issue

The only big thing I think is missing now is Photoshop (krita and photopea exist) and games that have intentionally prevented themselves being run in Linux, which is a pretty good reason to vote with your wallet anyway imo

I do kinda miss being able to fuck around in Roblox every now and again but oh well

I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be it doesn’t change how Linux works at runtime does it?

Generally hardware compatibility should be identical across all distros, as most drivers are baked into the kernel

The exception being Nvidia drivers, you have to install those yourself pretty much everywhere

Lowest maintenance possible is probably gonna be bazzite as people are saying

The anticheat thing is a pain

No, I apparently missed that but

Nix is the best solution anyway imo

Personally I’ve been using outlook via pwa for months anyway

If they’re gonna put it in an electron container anyway you be may as well cut out the middleman and just use the web app Microsoft’s ones are actually quite good now

I thought outlook had been electron for a while

I’ve been using the outlook pwa on Linux for some time with no issues, maybe try that instead if it’s causing problems for you on windows?

Usually the reaction you’ll get trying to convince someone to use an operating system when they don’t know or care what an operating system is

I’d like to interject for a moment, what you’re referring to as Linux is actually gnu/linux/churbleyimyam

I’d try installing just regular nix (package manager, not operating system) rather than home manager, that’s what I do on by Debian pi

There’s an install script on their website that does it all for you

At which point the safer bet is to get them a Chromebook which is supported by Google and not by you

No point imo, the people who benefit significantly from using Linux are the people who understand what it is

I try to get my techy friends on Linux and much of my family are techies anyway but I wouldn’t try to put someone who won’t be able to fix it themselves on it because then they’re stuck if I’m not around to fix it

They’ve definitely been a big problem in the past

As of 550 they seem to have worked out the glaring issues at least in my experience

I literally used this as an example to demonstrate gaming on Linux is easy now

Works perfectly out of the box, all you gotta do is install steam, download it and click play

I actually no longer have any Nvidia related issues, I think it is already here

Sounds like nobara or bazzite to me

Or basically any distro and steam tbh

If you can install nix (you can install it per user) then you can have whatever you want in a temporary shell with nix-shell -p python

nix profile install nixpkgs#python if you want it actually installed

Home manager is also entirely user level I believe and lets you use a declarative config too