[cornonthecobra]

I currently support an accounting business. We're eternally vendor locked on Windows desktop because Intuit products are it for accounting outside of the ERP space.

I'm presently in planning meetings with them to move the desktops from Windows 10 to Linux, and run Intuit over RDP in quarantined Windows 11 VMs.

These are people are the most conservative type of user you can imagine. One of the silent cores of staunch Windows users.

They approached me about migrating to Linux on the desktop.

[GOD_Over_Djinn]

> They approached me about migrating to Linux on the desktop.

What were the reasons they gave? I’m glad to hear this anecdote.

[cornonthecobra]

Concerns about financial confidentiality. The new AI features are a form of third-party disclosure that would have to be permanently and irrevocably disabled. I couldn't guarantee those features would never activate (as indicated by Microsoft enabling them with updates even after being disabled), and it rightly spooked the owner.

[ewuhic]

How about running stuff in wine/proton?

[cornonthecobra]

It doesn't. Intuit does kludgy IPC things related to report generation and accessing the internal database server. It's fragile even on Windows.

Fortunately I can easily run a herd of Windows VMs on a single server without much trouble.