This is funny because in the 90s I was at a similar position. I was at a university department where everybody had a Solaris 2.3 or 2.4 box as well as a PC that would dual boot into OS/2 or a 5MB MSDOS partition. Solaris, OS/2 and MSDOS would all mount the users' homedirectory from the SunOS 4.1.3 box, either via NFS or Samba.
People sadly did most of their work by booting into MSDOS and then loading Windows 3.1 from a shared readonly Sambashare that had Windows, Office and a ton of other programs ready to use. This "immutable" Windows installation worked surprisingly well as Windows no longer could destroy itself by existing and reconfiguring itself, and users could no longer run setup.exe for unneeded programs that would break everything else.
People sadly did most of their work by booting into MSDOS and then loading Windows 3.1 from a shared readonly Sambashare that had Windows, Office and a ton of other programs ready to use. This "immutable" Windows installation worked surprisingly well as Windows no longer could destroy itself by existing and reconfiguring itself, and users could no longer run setup.exe for unneeded programs that would break everything else.