This kind of crap is typical for "shadow IT" scenarios... like, email is done by central, but individual departments can run their own IT because central IT doe

This kind of crap is typical for "shadow IT" scenarios... like, email is done by central, but individual departments can run their own IT because central IT doesn't want to be bothered with the kind of demands that the people who want to run desktop Linux tend to have on the regular. And then, when stuff like OP crops up, they say "good luck, we only approve our system".