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[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Lmao stealing this

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Indeed it is brother... indeed it is.

[-] Panamalt@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

I side-loaded Mint for a couple hours just to goof around, and then . . . never booted Windows again, quite literally forgot it was installed three days later

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Sounds just like my last dual boot setup, as well.

I believe I said "I'll just boot back to Windows next time I want to play...this game...that just launched and played perfectly under Proton...or...this other game...which also works...huh..."

[-] the_q@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

I'm going to give you the secret to switching. Go all AMD for your build, and leave everything you know about Windows software and how it works at the door. Learn to use Linux. Expecting it and Linux software to work like Windows is the pitfall.

[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

To be fair. In my experience, everything mostly does work like in windows. But I always think it's like attributing Windows switching to Linux as Mac to Windows.

Mac users are used to not dealing with the registry, lusrmgr, local group policies in the same way Windows users aren't used to dealing with fstab, grub, proton, wine, various desktop environment tweaks.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

When you're Canadian, European or basically not a US citizen, that alone should be enough reason not to use windows..don't give your money to greedy corporate overlords of a dictatorship

[-] shininghero@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, my vr headset requires a piece of middleware that is not Linux compatible. But, by the time 10 LTSC reaches end of life, Deckard should be available for purchase.

Also, I'll need to re-pirate substance painter for avatar work, as GenP doesn't do Linux either.

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[-] RusAD@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Audio production/editing. You can switch to mac but not to linux at the moment. Well, you can do on linux like 80% of what you can on windows by using Wine, but certain apps and plugins are incompatible right now. The one that holds me back is Izotope RX suite, which is a de-facto standard for audio restoration/clean-up, and it's all because of their drm (even the cracked versions have the drm merely bypassed, but it still crashes during the initialization, at least it was like that when I last tried it a couple of months ago).

[-] anon5621@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

U can use bitwig (native linux version) with https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge and cracked version izotope https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6656658 https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6575804

Or ableton which works fine in wine nowdays

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[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Tax perp software was the only thing I needed it for in the last year. I haven't converted my gaming PC to Linux yet, but I don't anticipate an issue.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I did it as long as gaming kept me there. Now I can play pretty much anything on my Linux machine. Forza fucked up. But whatever. It's a not a game to die for.

[-] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

For me it's Nvidia tech, VR, and HDR, even if they're technically supported, they're much more of a hassle than on Windows.

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[-] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Msm flash tool, I need windows for this

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[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

I feel like a stuck record saying this, but if there was a serious contender to Group Policy on Linux I honestly think Windows in the workplace would be dead in five years.

[-] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'm convinced everyone on Lemmy works IT

[-] highball@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'm convinced they all live in the moms' basement eating chicken tendies.

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

I guess both of these are confessions then

[-] highball@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Negative. Windows on Desktop uses vendor lock-in to maintain it's user base. It's been that way for nearly 30 years. People only think they are choosing Windows themselves. Anywhere Microsoft can not enforce vendor lock-in, Linux dominates. Even IoT, a brand new market (well it was brand new ten years ago), 80% dominated by Linux. Microsoft had to make Windows free for IoT and 9" or less devices just to try and be competitive. People only think everything is made for Windows, because OEMs are forced to sell a Windows license with every PC or lose their volume licensing deals. That means every OEM has to spend engineering dollars on Windows drivers, software, and testing. When your business has very thin margins, you can't afford to have second or even third engineering efforts for competitor OSes. Imagine how Linux would be if PC companies were spending engineering dollars on Linux for the last 30 years. Right now the money comes primarily from server sales money. If there was demand for Linux on Desktop in the workplace, there would be tons of competing FOSS Group Policy implementations.

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[-] ftbd@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

I keep a windows LTSC install around purely for Escape from Tarkov. Everything else I play works great on Linux.

[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Fan control. MSI after burner. Nvidia drivers.

Windows 10 gaming desktop

Mint laptop

[-] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Fancontrol-gui, corectl, yeah nvidia drivers still suck but are improving.

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[-] serenissi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

For me it is the malwares. Other platforms do not stand a chance against windows.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Agreed, my malware collection would never be this big if I couldn't use Windows.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"My collection of rare, incurable diseases! Violated!"

[-] feiras@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Like you want a lot of malware? O.o

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Sometimes it is easier

[-] Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I'm so close to making the switch. I'm just a poor soul though who enjoys games with those annoying anti-cheats. Thinking about trying to do a duel boot just for those specific scenarios.

[-] Covenant@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Thats what I have. I suggest you take 2 different drives. Makes your life a lot easier.

[-] Raptorox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, windows does NOT like other systems on its drive, with separate drives it won't steal boot

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It sometimes will still decide to murder your boot manager.

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[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Actually steam games work well. It's non steam games and ones with kernel level anti cheat.

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So, a few years back, when a good friend of mine tried out Linux mint, one of the main reasons he didn't stick with it wasn't even compatibility or anything (although he probably would have switched to a rolling release as someone who values cutting edge updates). But what ultimately made him return to Windows was something, I have been scratching my head on how to best handle it: The file system structure ultimately being too much of a change.

Now, of course, if you are used to it, I wouldn't really call it better or worse - definitely more suited to what Linux ultimately is. But stuff like, "Where are the save games of my paradox games? Why is so much stuff in my user directory? Why is there no unified directoy for all the stuff I installed (including everything they use), like Program Files, but everything is scattered all around into different directories? Why was the path to my save games hidden in a dotfile-folder?" were examples of hurdles, where the current answer seems to be "you just have to get used to it".

Now, I am not pleading to change the standard, there's good reasons for it. But are there good transitioning guides from Windows to Linux, that do a good job at explaining the structure of the file system? Because I remember, myself, only really getting used to it months into my Linux journey all those years ago.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Why was the path to my save games hidden in a dotfile-folder?

It isn't any better on Windows, but oh boy does this one piss me off.

~/.config/mygame — wtf, no it's not config
~/mygame — fuck off, the home folder is mine
~/.local/share/mygame — better, I guess?
~/.cache/mygame — absolutely not here
~/.steam/.../MyGame — still not great, but at least it's self contained

Yeah, that one really isn't Linux's fault either, and both on Linux and Windows, it's always "exciting" to see which dev used which wild, new scheme for their config/save files.

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[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

There’s plenty of software that is windows exclusive and has little to no Linux compatibility, although it is shit praxis, it is an argument to use windows

[-] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Fusion 360 for me. Freecads incredibly user unfriendly, openscad is missing functionality and performance, and blender isn't great for engineering modeling

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[-] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

A few months ago I installed windows on a spare SSD. It's only purpose was for modded Skyrim.

A few weeks ago I accidentally formated that drive. It was only mildly annoying. Then I remembered I was basically done with that playthrough anyways. The SSD still remains unformated XD

[-] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 1 week ago
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