Leave it at the office.
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Get a separate device for work. You shouldn't be working on your personal computer anyway.
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If it's your computer that you bought and legally own, tell them where they can install their Winblows 11. (The nice way to say this is to tell them to requisition you a computer or think of an alternative, because you are not going to use a personal device for company business anyway)
If it's their computer that they own, grin and bare it.
New job time!
Depends on what access you have on your PC.
My two steps are always the same
- debloater
- i install chocolatey and use that to manage my applications if possible.
Then, depending on your work requirements, I would deactivate OneDrive if not used.
How big is said workplace? Can you respectfully ask for an exemption? Don't say Windows will make you miserable (it makes everyone miserable, apart from a few Microsoft bootlickers), talk about loss of productivity, reduced security and increased risk, and – if you can – challenge the grounds on which the change is being made.
Often, they are incapable of providing proper justification for the change. May not help, but you'll have the minor satisfaction of knowing it is bullshit.
Install Fedora in a VM if you can?
You can use many KDE apps (konsole, dolphin, kate), and may be able to enable WSL. Look at powershell 7 and windows terminal, winget for a package manager.
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil has some nice and simple buttons for reducing the bullshit.
Install Powertoys if you can, this at least makes windows usable (funcionality-wise, its still going to be slow as shit)
On my work PC i have windows 11 which is a mess and keeps getting worse. I installed a Debian VM on it to have at least some freedom and pleasant PC experience.
@ISolox Don't let them take your freedom to use linux at your home. Use for them, and send the thek to hell after the work.
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Use VMs. Depending on their setup/requirements depends on which OS can be in the VM.
What is the reasoning there?
Since my work involves sensors, I set up a continuous testing setup on a raspberry pi and got its IP whitelisted. I ssh into it when something is annoying to do in the Windows laptop.
Can't you just boot straight into a VM running windows, in your Fedora? Passthrough the hardware.. who's gonna know?
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Get a good KVM switch or stream-access the Windows machine with VNC or similar (beware of clipboard sharing). I have the same issue at home and just use a KVM switch at the moment.
If possible, maybe get a separate machine to throw Windows on and then keep your personal rig on Linux?