overview for recarsion

I'm looking at you, ubisoft by recarsion in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 months ago

What about Steam? Linux gaming would be a whole lot worse off without Proton

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What is the most painless and minimal way to dual boot these days? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been happily Windows-free for about 5 years, but lately I need some Win-only software including a few games that don't work at all on Linux. My main questions:

How to avoid Windows messing with my Linux install? Having a separate PC is not possible for me right now. I'm considering uninstalling grub and instead selecting the boot device I want from UEFI, idk if this is advisable though.
I'm also interested in how to get a Windows install that's as minimal as possible: I don't want to log in to a Microsoft account, I don't want telemetry etc, I only want whatever is strictly required to make my system functional. The one thing I do want is Windows Defender cause ain't no way I'm dealing with an antivirus.
Should I go for Win 11 or stick to 10?

Any tips or experiences are welcome!

Ps: I know this information is probably all out there, but I thought a post in this community about it would be useful for others as well.

UPDATE: I ended up going with a regular old dual boot using Windows 10 iot LTSC - there's a few games I wanted to run and a driver as well so I chose to install directly on hardware as opposed to a VM. I created the install media using Ventoy, and UNPLUGGED EVERY OTHER DRIVE during installation except the one Windows was supposed to come on. Afterwards I had to boot in with a live Linux USB (the nice thing about Ventoy is that you can write multiple ISOs to your USB so it came in handy) to manually install rEFInd onto the original EFI partition that my Linux install uses, then I just had to set up the correct boot order in UEFI and everything is working. I also had to fuck around on the boot partition and with efibootmgr to remove all traces of grub so things don't get tangled up which was a bit scary but things are working perfectly now.

Apparently, Catholic dating is all about money by recarsion in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 3 months ago

Why does this sound AI generated

GNU-Linux by recarsion in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 5 months ago

I don't know if people use it on desktop but with its minimal size it's convenient as hell for docker images that don't need a lot of dependencies installed

TBH 6 was kind of a downgrade from 5 by recarsion in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 5 months ago

I had tons of fun with 5, I got bored of 6 after a few hours and regretted not refunding it within the 2 hour window. It felt like a board game and a very mediocre one at that.

Don't dare to question Gnome by recarsion in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 6 months ago

I don't really get what people mean when describing Gnome or any DE as "out of the way". I've never felt like KDE was "in my way".

Talking to normies about privacy: by recarsion in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 96 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"But why would they care about MY data, I don't do anything special"

Anyone outside of tech when I even passingly mention privacy

A universal experience by recarsion in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 9 months ago

I was that kid once

And I don't plan to switch back either. Everything is just better on Linux for me by recarsion in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 9 months ago

It felt so great when I finally wiped my Windows drive back in the day. Suddenly I had an extra drive to distro hop to my heart's content without having to wipe the previous distro 👌

measuring rule by recarsion in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 year ago

Idk, 0 being the melting point and 100 the boiling point of water just seems to make much more sense to me than whatever the hell the Fahrenheit scale is doing

Don't forget to tip your gas station by recarsion in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wait, you guys don't pump your own gas by default? Is this some American thing I'm too europoor to understand?

i hate that it's very often like this by recarsion in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 year ago

This is why Arch is the best. Forget the rolling release, it's the sheer size of the repos for me.

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago

Idk if it counts as less popular, but I always thought Sublime got too much flak. The popups are annoying, but other than that it's a great editor imo. It doesn't have the bells and whistles of something like VSCode or a full IDE, but that's also why I like it, it's much more snappy and lightweight. And you can still get things like LSP working so for me at least it gives me everything I look for in an editor. I even decided to pay for a license a few years back, considering I make my salary with this thing the cost is negligible.