I sometimes forget that I’m not the only kind of user who may run a Linux box. I’m not immune to compromise, but I’m not an “average” user like say… Peggy from accounting.

Why is this a requirement? Commercial support?

You may run Fedora in WSL2. This is what I do. My work is largely command line based. Use Wezterm. If you must, launch GUI apps from there. I’m running graphical Emacs daily just fine this way. My coworkers don’t have half the gas for our kubernetes pods that I do and that’s by in large the fact that I refuse to lose my Linux chops

Just ask them why they want to waste the money on licensing. Money is the language managers understand

You could also just use a USB drive or even a CDRW drive 🤓 Imagine a CD with dotfiles sharpied onto it like its 2001

Currently working through rebel galaxy outlaw. No Man’s Sky is next!

Get a pixel. They are less expensive, especially at last year’s model. Way less vendor bloat. Easiest device to deGoogle, ironically. I’m running GrapheneOS on a pixel 7 I spent $700 a couple years ago. Get your freedom while you still can