You can say "We'd need something that emulates the Windows ABI like Wine does" and you will get a misinformed person derailing the discussion. You can explain

You can say "We'd need something that emulates the Windows ABI like Wine does" and you will get a misinformed person derailing the discussion. You can explain your tinc mesh setup, but as soon as you call it "VPN" some people will believe its some sort of proxy to hide your IP address while watching porn. You can explain how PHP interacts with the server environment, but as soon as you call it "Server API", some people will think its a machine-consumable REST/Json/Xml service or sth like that. This generates many landmines you might step onto. Sometimes you need to argue total nonsense to work around these people. Painful. So yeah you are right, but it doesnt solve the Problem.