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Its real: I got the ok from my company to migrate them to free software.
I have totally free reign and as long as there is a working system at the end of it i can do whatever i want to migrate (at least our workstations) to Linux. I think it helped a little that the big company on the other side of the industrial complex where we reside did make this step last year and got good coverage about this in our local newspapers.
Its weird... this will bring me tons of additional work, but i am somehow happy to finally dump windows.
Did you have ever heard about BQN? The "Big Question Notation"? It's a language out of the APL family tree and i am beginning to get addicted to it. Like APL it uses a bunch of (spacey) glyphs to represent its functions and working with it feels somehow like building with Lego blocks. There is allways an option to arrange the blocks in a better way, to strip blocks away, to get more terse... i am just at the beginning of the learning curve but it is in a weird way unreasonable fun.
There is also an online REPL of it to try it out: