Yeah, seems like a reboot every 24 hours you’re not unlocked would be extremely useful

I find Google docs to be sufficient for most office, But I don’t go too far into the weeds and Excel, It would probably be pretty easy have use cases where Google wouldn’t cut it for you.

The free open source office alternatives are serviceable, you could get your work done on them but they’re disappointing in some tasks.

The new Outlook app is indistinguishable from their electron app. They both suck but they’re equal.

But I provision hardware for my job so I have windows boxes sitting around if I need them.

How many times can they make use of the same set of data? Aren’t we all just leaked 50 times over by now?

It’s doable with KVM+Qemu. You really need a second video card to make it sane.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GPU_passthrough_with_libvirt_qemu_kvm

It can be run in wine, but you can’t install it from the cc app and there’s no hardware acceleration, so it’s kind of a pig.

Honestly, if you’re stuck with windows anyway, you’re probably better off with linux in the VM or just using WSL.