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That's a dishonest statement and misrepresents the actual support.

The "junctions" are unusable as "windows symlinks".

For one, you can't create any as a normal non-admin user without specific authorization by default.

Only the most sadistic company on earth is going to ask you to do development on a Windows machine without admin privileges.

I had exactly that done to me. By a huge 200k+ employees corporate monster... You can taste the humiliation of having to justify every sudo through a ticket system. They censored the internet for employees too, in an of course absurdly broken way. Made me learn to read ASN.1 printouts & detect tampering with TLS certs. Add to that an iconic "Office Space"-ey workplace atmosphere, absolutely toxic... made me _request a headset_ from the company (employees are not allowed to bring their own); 2 weeks of ticketing again, and they deliver: an rj45-plug phone headset, with three obscure boxes on the wire (I can only presume, for surveillance). I've been testing my limits for 3 months with them, and left without saying a word. A lesson is a lesson.

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