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I worked briefly in public administration at one point in my career. I asked the admins the same thing, could I get Emacs installed on my machine. I got a bit concerned when the admin staff asked back: "What is Emacs?"

by bitwize3 hours ago|

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I was a bit surprised when about ten years ago I noticed that there were now really only two reactions to my Emacs use:

"Emacs? What's that? Oh, sorry, I like things with an actual UI."

Or:

"Emacs? I remember that from my DEC days. I'm surprised it's still around!"

by ks6g105 hours ago|

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I scheduled my intune upgrade when I needed a week off for doing house moving stuff. I was told Emacs would work, didn't. Took them about a week before I could use it again.

by znpy3 hours ago|

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Back in the day when i had a windows laptop for work you could just download the windows binary distribution of emacs and run that, has something changed?

by masfoobar3 hours ago|

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This is what I do when I use Windows. However, in recent years, I tend to use Emacs via WSL.

However, I believe Microsoft Intune is used within the Business to control what software can and cannot be installed. So my guess is Windows won't allow you to install via a typical .exe

I am not suggesting the above is 100% valid. I just don't want to get a new laptop and find out. Maybe I can still use Emacs via WSL... bypassing Intune????

At the end of the day, I understand Security is getting much more serious in recent years - and we even have a dedicated department - but controlling the software to install is crazy, especially for a development team.

by MarsIronPI1 hours ago|

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Does Intune stop you from running any unapproved .exe's? Because IIRC Emacs can run as a "portable" executable that doesn't need to be installed in Program Files.

(I don't have any experience with Intune so pardon my ignorance.)

by jhghbj5 hours ago|

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