That's character design I can get behind.

I was expecting windows infrastructure...

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

hmmmm I think this needs to be investigated more closely. For science of course.

using microsoft word

*moves an image 1 mm to the left*

all text and images shift. 4 new pages appear. in the distance, sirens.

Another option webvm.io

wow rude.

If it's closed source, it's inherently malware.
Besides there are other options besides GNU+Linux that respect your freedom.

blissful ignorance

I ran my home lab a long while on NixOS (synapse, and multiple docker containers - Laptop still runs it), would be great if you would address the little more shortcomings of NixOS. (Features that are poorly documented like Flakes - mainly the state of the wiki, although perhaps it's better nowadays)

I'll leave this here anyway as a lot of people aren't aware of IoT Enterprise LTSC (it should have been the shipped consumer version imo) massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc...

Windows IoT LTSC is the way to go if you wanna stay on the windows line.

The amount of "legitimate" sysadmins that do this in a large productive environment is scary.

Endeavour is great if you don't want to spend some time in archwiki. It has great defaults for most stuff and uses arch repos in the background as well.

You could always use mono. Although not everything is 100% compatible.

Event Horizon