I dunno, I've listened to some Middle English on a History of English podcast, and could follow along only slightly. I'm sure I could come up to speed quickly, since it at least has the French influence already (if I remember right).
I'm not familiar with the great vowel shift, is that a result of the Norman invasion in 1066, adding French into Old English? (That's the sequence, right? It's been a while since I read about it).
Okie Pew, show me an open source spreadsheet app that can do tables, I'll wait.
Or, let's see you install Debian in one try on any of my machines. Or worse, Mint. Machines that Windows has zero problem installing.
How about cad? Or running any form of CNC? or a million other systems that have zero support in Linux land?
Tell you what, Pew, maybe you should come to the real world where most of us don't have time to play with our asses to get standard hardware, like Logitech mice to work.
And I use Linux every day, as servers. But I'll be damned if I ever use, or recommend it, as a desktop. There are tools I need (like excel) that simply must work, as-is. Unless you want to pay to redevelop all the systems that have automation to output/input excel formats that have been operating for a decade or more.
If Pew was "tortured by windows", then I seriously doubt his technical creds, , frankly.
It's pretty simple, the candidate didn't meet the requirements.
Not sure why you're involved, this is an HR and legal issue. If HR said they don't have docs showing eligibility, then that needs to be reported to the recruiter, otherwise they're going to recommend this person to somewhere else, and run into the same issue. How would you feel if you were in their shoes?
Whether someone can legally work somewhere is not your problem to solve, unless you can actually do something, like help them submit appropriate paperwork (I've done this for employees who were temps, to help them get more permanent status).
For just files I'd use Syncthing or Resilio (I keep hundreds of gigs synced with ST). Resilio has a feature that's very useful - Selective Sync. This allows you to setup a sync job that syncs the index of files, but doesn't sync the actual files until you select a file(s) to sync on the remote device. I use this to access my media files from anywhere (3TB) which I obviously don't want to try to sync the entire folder to my phone, etc.
But since you effectively are on the same LAN, you can use any file copy tool the respective OS's support.
Though for WAN connections, I prefer tools with some redundancy/resilience, since those connections can be slow or experience drops, and regular copy tools aren't designed to contend with that (in Windows the only tool I can think of off hand is Robocopy, but I think Teracopy will at least show you if a file copy fails).
It really depends on your use-case, what you're trying to solve for.
Using a mesh network like Wireguard/Tailscale enables you to have a public interface that's not on your home router, but the VPS instead.