Really ought to talk to your bosses about switching to Open office, Libre office, or some other Open Source alternative... Might have to go over the IT guy's head, though, depending on how much of a Microsoft fanboy he is (I honestly can't believe such creatures exist, except that I've seen them)
Libre and Open office are basically the same software except a hell of a lot less bloated, and the use the classic menu interface that Microsoft keeps trying to break, because new and shiny is somehow better than familiar and coherent...
Really ought to talk to your bosses about switching to Open office, Libre office, or some other Open Source alternative... Might have to go over the IT guy's head, though, depending on how much of a Microsoft fanboy he is (I honestly can't believe such creatures exist, except that I've seen them)
Libre and Open office are basically the same software except a hell of a lot less bloated, and the use the classic menu interface that Microsoft keeps trying to break, because new and shiny is somehow better than familiar and coherent...
I use Linux, but we dont have a say in anything this company does, otherwise I would've rehauled everything years ago.
Can't hurt to ask, right? bring in your personal machine and show them how much more fluid things run. The free price tag is icing on the cake.
Worst they can do is say no, lol.
If this were a smaller company, yes, your reasoning makes sense.
This company is so large and wrought with corruption, that I hope it drains alongside of DC when the storm is over.
I can't even get them to honor their written rules, let alone get them to consider better ones.
Best I can do is create a separate Linux work machine and remote to the old one when it's necessary.
Fair enough, lol.
so...
Debian- or Arch-based? lol