I’m an educator, and my Windows PC crashed during my first period class.
I had a cinnamon mint USB drive in my bag. I booted to it, and it saved the day!
I don’t have anybody to tell just how much of a godsend that was, but I figured you guys might appreciate it!
Well - we have a saying in German: “Fragen kostet nichts” - asking doesn’t cost anything. At least you tried then, worst they can say is “no”. Expect that, and who knows, maybe you get a surprise.
Maybe they’ll let you work with a “technical device” that you administrate yourself, while for access to company resources you still have to use the corporate vanilla computer.