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I wish my employer (state government) would use Linux. But unfortunately, they are all in with Microsoft. Everything has gone that way. SharePoint, Microsoft hosted Exchange, OneDrive, etc... And it's as horrible as you can imagine. It's awesome when I can't access my personal files because Microsoft servers are down. And don't get me started on the CrowdStrike fiasco!
That sucks :( I'm pretty much in the same boat. I get to use a Linux desktop at work on the proviso that I don't raise support requests. We use Microsoft for nearly everything so naturally it's an uphill battle. The web UI is quite buggy and "not recommended" by my org. Teams doesn't support Firefox so I have to run a separate browser especially for it.
But aside from interfacing with Microsoft everything just works, and really nicely.
Teams as a PWA installed via edge seems to be the best way to make management happy enough and works better than the windows client sometimes