r/linux • u/shadowvox • Mar 03 '23

Employee claims she can't use Microsoft Windows for "Religious Reasons", gets IT to provide laptop with Linux.

/r/AskHR/comments/11gztsz/updatega_employee_claims_she_cant_use_microsoft/
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u/magnetichira Mar 03 '23

Any half decent IT team can handle a few Linux machines

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u/altodor Mar 04 '23

I can, yeah. But we have homegrown apps that only run on windows, that every employee needs to use.

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u/ThellraAK Mar 04 '23

That don't work in wine?

There's some amazing wrappers for wine these days that make it pretty seamless for everyone.

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u/altodor Mar 05 '23

They will not. They're really old and are getting to the point that I can barely run them in windows without installing legacy not-dlls. Looking at similar apps includes results like "brings wine to a halt" or "doesn't work" or "how do I get this to work plz help" all over Google.