Someone who doesn’t use the distro is saying a tool ‘is a must’ when I do use the distro and have never needed it. You do you, but the point of my original comment was that it’s a valid distro for Europeans wanting a non-US option. Doesn’t mean you need to like it or use, but others might.

So you find Gnome & KDE ugly? I’ve never needed to use Yast for any system configuration. Having BTFRS with snapshots as default makes it a great distro.

SUSE/OpenSUSE seems like a much more European option

Shorthand is hard to learn from and hard to troubleshoot in complicated scripts.

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For me it’s that Tumblweed at least uses BTRFS by default, so rolling back to a previous snapshot is a breeze if needed.

I tipped him well

I can’t tell if that’s supposed to be sarcasm, but if not you were encouraging his bad behaviour.

Sounds like you need to familiarise yourself with PowerShell and Group Policy.

Vbox will create a bridge with my wifi card (I’m a laptop user with no option for a wired nic in the host).

I’ve never been able to get kvm to do that and haven’t found any working instructions online that a simpleton like me can follow

So what is your suggestion for a viable alternative that auditors will also accept?

I don’t have a better answer for OP, but telling them to switch distros is also not answering their question at all.

I would highly recommend against installing a pirated version of Windows like BearOfATime suggests (at least via the second link he provided) - it could cause trouble for both you and your school.

There’s a docker image already that makes it easy to deploy and use, no compiling required.

Have you checked out Stirling-PDF?

This is why I prefer using Distrobox on my personal computer. No package for Signal-Desktop? No problem, run it through a Debian container using Distrobox.

I don’t think it’s comparable to Amazon Linux even, it’s more infrastructure oriented. From the Wikipedia page:

CBL-Mariner is being developed by the Linux Systems Group at Microsoft for its edge network services and as part of its cloud infrastructure.[5] The company uses it as the base Linux for containers in the Azure Stack HCI implementation of Azure Kubernetes Service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBL-Mariner

Sounds like it’s better for you to ask now so you can decline the job if they’re a Windows only shop.

One thing I would recommend is using a note taking app to create snippets of fixes or personalization changes for your OS that you’ve made. For me that includes things like how to add my laptop’s webcam to the blacklist and other things that I’d need to spend time looking up since I don’t do them that often.

This is one of the reasons I’m using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s been a solid distro for me.

Sure, my non-technical family all use it too and won’t switch to anything else, but for people who rely on search for their jobs (and many others) have certainly noticed its decline.