Which means that for this reason alone I have to dedicate 40GB of my laptop's hard drive to a Windows partition with office, adobe, and other stuff installed.
And if she's not physically near me, I have no way of getting the script to her with any guarantee it'll behave the same or work at all on her work computer.
Having worked within unix for so long, I'd started taking it for granted how everything is either portable, or can be easily containerized, Windows and accompanying products are incredibly environment finicky and janky overall.
To be able to just do the remote version of "handing over the laptop" will be a godsend.