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by bshacklett 365 days ago
Unless your company forces you to use Windows, which is still much more common than many would like to admit. And yes, WSL exists, but in my experience, if a company is unwilling to allow macOS, there’s a good chance they either don’t allow enabling HyperV, or the security software they use is such garbage that it results in a HyperV enabled system being effectively unusable.
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Windows 11 requires Hyper-V turned on, virtualization based security is one of the reasons of the forced hardware upgrades.
Any chance you could provide links to documentation around that? I haven't been able to find anything definitive about exactly what's required and what's enabled by default.
Unless the company also forcefully prevents installation of git bash, you'll have make as well.

I know, I know, what developer on windows uses git via the official git windows client, right? /s

Having make doesn't help much if you don't have the commands that it's calling.