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Replace Jesus with Richard.
https://xkcd.com/225/
Sorry but using less Windows via dual boot setup > Not using Linux at all.
Whatever works for people is the right choice.
sure but this is linux memes , so nuance and rational thought mean dick all mehbreveh
The windows partition is bloat. Delete it.
Please explain this to:
-My Job
And then subsequently(or convince my job to migrate to foss alts for the following)
-Adobe
-Autodesk
-Vectric
-Google(workspaces)
-intuit
-Trimble
Windows for work, Linux for fun.
It only ever exists as a VM, and I boot it up rarely as it deserves this purgatory.
Anyone know of some good automation to keep Windows VMs up to date?
WSUS
I also got a VM, it gets used for exactly 2 pieces of software, ElvisMX and Multisim
You reminded me that I have a Windows VM.
Sorry.
I just wanna use my hdr monitor bro
Hell yeah, another HDR lover on Lemmy! Now there's two of us!
That's the main reason why I use Win11 as my primary OS. 10's HDR support is half-assed, and KDE's is even worse. Linux doesn't even support nVidia GPUs properly, so SDR-to-HDR conversion is missing for both YouTube and local videos. And since Win10 doesn't have AutoHDR for games, that leaves 11 as my only choice if I want to play games and watch videos in HDR with minimal hassle.
(edit: And yes I know that converting to HDR isn't as good as real HDR; but IDC cause it looks amazing to me, especially in the highlights.)
Just want to use Dolby Atmos and for audio to keep working on Firefox after I'm done watching a movie
HDR works pretty well on the latest KDE versions
yeah nah couldn't get it to work and I'm not playing around with it anymore I tried for weeks windows just works when it just works on mint I'll nuke windows
Mint uses Cinnamon desktop, which currently only supports Xorg. For HDR support you need something with Wayland and pretty up to date.
cinnamon has experimental wayland support I tried that I tried stuff based on KDE I tried gamescope none of it worked I'm not looking for support I looked for it it doesn't work right now for me
gnome has HDR, idk how well it works or how much gnome distrupts your workflow
no
I mean if you dont like gnome its fine, but still better than using windows, what's the hold up?
no it's not and I literally said I'm done messing about when mint supports hdr windows is gone
I know it's Linux memes but its better than using a bit of both instead of but trying Linux at all.
We need more casual people to try Linux. Not just diehards.
Edit: typo
diehards really kill the community. I think the guys from suckles are most guilty of this
Are you referring to Suckless.org and their Nazi controversy (which was successfully removed from Wikipedia)
The Steam Deck is at least trying to attract the casual users in, and I feel like the Switch 2 getting hammered with bad press right now and getting destroyed by the Nintendo fanbase might convert a few people over to the Steam Deck too.
Windows to my linux partition:
(this is why I wont dual boot)
It's been >6years I've dual booted windows alongside Linux. Granted, the windows partition isn't often used; but never has it erased my Linux out of existence
I used to have 2 ssds with one for Windows, the other for Linux. When I needed more space for games I just gave up on Windows and haven't since looked back. (Also converted one of my friends to dual-booting Mint).
Same. I have a 1tb drive with windows and a 4tb running Linux
Separate hard drives fixes this one.
I remember one time after checking out Ubuntu when I went back to Windows, my PC would ask if I wanted to boot into Windows or Windows.
The drive isn't even hooked up I swear!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ been daily driving Linux for at least a decade now...
But I haven't found a way to run my HTC Vive on my nvidia gpu and the updater software for my car on Linux... So I still have a dual boot for those
Can I just point out that there was a point in time in living memory where this statement would be utterly deranged? (And it'll probably soon be unusual again because of OTA updates...)
Oh, it still is.
Hard agree...
That point in time is forever for me. I'll spend a few thousand on a really good bike before I buy a car that needs regular software updates
its been years since I touched my 200gb windows partition, but it might have something important i might need in future lmao
Oblivion Remaster got me relapsing because I still had leftover game pass subscription. Forgive me my lord. And holy shit Todd managed to stitch Unreal Engine on top of Creation Engine, it's black magic fuckery. Lots of esp only mods still work like wtf.
That's crazy, I would not have even thought to try mods with the remaster.
I copied those files into my home folder years ago and wiped the partition for good.
I do unfortunately still use it for my VR sim racing. But half of that is because I got a quest 3 as an entry point for VR. I'd love to get one where you don't have to fiddle around with video compression and WiFi latency.
Same
I haven't used windows since 2023, or so, but what's the problem with using Windows alongside Linux? Sometimes you just need Windows, and Wine isn't always the answer. Although, I must admit, Linux gaming has reached the point where Windows is needed (probably?) only for games with anti-cheat.
hdr as well as anti-cheat though for me it's just that really as I don't play multiplayer so once hdr works on mint windows is getting nuked
Linux is the Nancy Kerrigan to Window's Tonya Harding when they're partitions of the same drive is the real problem.
You can dual boot Windows. I'm giving everyone here express permission. You can even mass grave up an LTSC copy of windows 10 for a couple of years, it's all cool.
Just be aware! Windows updates do fuck around with the hard drive partitions and MBR, so your copy of Linux might get bricked or partially overwritten once in awhile.
I was not aware of this... Thanks for the heads up. The only device I have dual booting right now is just my Lenovo Legion Go, handheld gaming. Split windows and Bazzite (fedora based)
Guess it's time to wipe the windows. I haven't even used it that much
I have Windows on separate drive, but I haven't used it in years (I mean, I launched it recently once to check if a hardware issue I was having was Linux specific — it wasn't).
I'm planning to delete it to reclaim the space, but I think I have some files I want to get from there but I don't want to go through the entire file system to find them, so it's just sitting there lol
I'm building a dedicated windows VR gaming PC that can live in my shed so I don't have to dual boot windows to use my racing sim.
Yes Linux and proton have come a long way, and for the most part is more than good enough. But for certain things (like my HP Reverb G2, or proprietary sim racing hardware drivers) it's just easier to pirate windows
Shed? What quality shed do you have that you feel comfortable using it for VR?
It's more like a detached room in the back yard, like a small granny flat. I've been using it as a workshop but I don't use it nearly enough to justify so repurposing it to be an art studio for my wife, as well as a VR space for me that i can have my racing sim rig setup. Also planning on building a VR pinball cabinet.
i can play stardew valley natively in linux. there's no reason to dual boot.
I have some software that doesnt work with wine or anything else the like Ive tried, and doesnt seem to have a linux equivalent that I can find. Ive only been using linux a few months now, so maybe theres some other options that Im missing, but how else does one deal with that apart from booting back into the old windows install whenever I need that specific software?
Have you tried a virtual machine?
Theyve looked a bit daunting to set up, so not just yet. But isnt that effectively the same thing, still running windows for those programs just without having to actually sign out of the linux partition to do it?
Yeah, but it's nice to just be able to use your windows software without needing to bootup windows, and then after you've finished reboot into linux.
Isn't vm performance terrible?
Well you gotta give your VM a little more juice than just one CPU core and 4 MB of RAM :)
Yes, I realize that. But even if I give 24gb of ram and 8-16 cores, in my experience VMs are still painfully slow. (That being said I generally only use them in a work setting, meaning not on Linux)
The other benefit is there's no fun and games on the windows boot so i can't get distracted from work. If it was just a quick shortcut away I'd get nothing done.
I dual booted my study pc. Well technically I did. I didn’t use windows for a few months without thinking about it and by then I was too afraid of windows corrupting my linux if I ever booted it. So I effectively just had a Linux machine with half half the disk space. Never had a problem with it though.
That's basically my story, as well.
I eventually had a close call where Windows almost booted by misclick - and it scared me it was going to mess up the Linux install I actually use - and I decided the stress wasn't worth it, to me, to keep a fallback copy of Windows around.
Forgive me lord, for I have sinned.
The great flood (me not charging my laptop and leaving it in a humid place for 1.5 years) got rid of that (and everything with it), tho
Sorry, I am a sinner.
Good. I'm safe. I single-boot Linux for decades.
Hey Jesus can you help me get Disco Elysium running on Kubuntu? I would ask for help with Fusion360 but I would probably need your dad's help with that
There's FreeCAD.
I try it every couple of months, but as long as it's faster to boot into a Windows install and start Fusion360 than it is to learn how to make a cube in FreeCAD, I'm going to keep my windows install
FreeCAD isn't that hard to use. Just different and not as polished.
I tried FreeCAD last week, and it was absolute trash. Extruding individual curves from a sketch as surfaces? Nah. Extruding multiple bodies from one sketch? Yes, but you can't select them individually for subsequent operations. Are there synchronous modeling tools? I couldn't find any. Rotation is terrible no matter which option I tried. If only I could get my SpacePilot Pro working with it. Can you even do any advanced surfacing? I could go on and on.
I was hoping for something akin to SolidWorks, which is kind of a second-teir modeling software in my eyes, but it was just a little better than AutoCAD. Maybe I'm just spoiled with NX. I just found it completely unusable.
FreeCAD has a... different workflow.. than other CAD's. It's confusing at first, but once learned, it's pretty easy to use.
I have used FreeCAD in place of Fusion360 for school and I found it better. Of course, not everyone will have basic operations and a different tool has a new learning curve.
Keep in mind that FreeCAD is also in development. No company (that I know) backs the development, making an open-source versatile CAD software takes a lot of time and has a lot of bugs/limitations.
I know I shouldn't say this, but hopefully all tools (even non-free) will be available under Linux.
It’s technically there on a separate drive entirely, but I haven’t touched it in at least a year. Probably gonna have to when I need to brush up for my cert renewal though
I'm so sorry Jesus, I just wanted to play some tarkov
Believe it or not, straight to hell.
But what if I'm on the fence and I'm trying out Linux?
Sink or swim! Embrace chaos! Constant confusion builds character.
This is allowed.
@deaf_fish @ArchmageAzor
See another stupid repost
As if windows would let grub live
"Whoops I stomped on the MBR again, what are you gonna do 'bout it?"
Change to Linux boot loader grub and two disks... Your old piece of shit disk for windows. The good stuff for Linux. Never look back.... Unless your aunty needs help getting another virus or whatever windows offers.
Naw, separate machines. One for VR, opening my office Access files, the Adobe suite. And another one with Linux I use for most everything. Dual booting is sometimes problematic.
When Linux can actually do everything I want to do I'll gladly stop using Windows. It's not there yet and a lot of what it can do is still janky.
There are applications that still don't have a proper Linux port, or any at all. Or maybe the ones that exist are cumbersome to use. I really hate that people downvote you for pointing this out. If you were wrong, Linux would have a much larger share already.
I understand that some people have alternatives for everything they use; I'm happy for them, and I wish to be them. But assuming that if I can do everything I want on Linux in the same quality/convenience/whatever, then others must, as well...
Yeah it's pretty frustrating to hear so many touting it as a replacement and then being met with hostility when you try to adopt it yourself and run into problems. Like I expect there to be some friction moving to a different system but when you're hitting roadblocks every step of the way on what to you are everyday tasks in Windows it gets tiresome quick and I haven't even tried to game on it yet.
As long as it's single player or you're lucky to not want to play League, PUBG, CS2 or Valorant (or RS6 or... basically any of the biggest ones), you should be fine, and there are plenty of games working under Linux.
If you do... Well, not now or in the past 20 years.
League ran fine for many years on Linux. The problem is Tencent, not Linux.
Per Riot's own stats, the rates of scripting in competitive league went way up AFTER they rolled out Vanguard, so it's not about anti-cheat either.
I remember having played it on Ubuntu around S3-S4. It didn't look the exact same, but it was definitely playable (could have been just different graphics settings). A few weeks ago I found a comment saying it's not playable and/or buggy as hell now. I wonder what broke it.
Did you buy hardware with Linux pre-installed?
We need to be better about clarifying that, for apples to apples experience, it's best to buy hardware with Linux pre-installed.
Or is AutoCAD one of your everyday tasks? We all have different definitions of "everyday", but I haven't had an issue web browsing on Linux in ages.
No, It's not like there's an abundance of options for this around. Especially if you want something with a graphics card and you want to lay hands on it first to make sure the construction isn't shoddy. I just did a brief search for laptops with Linux on them and options were extremely limited. This is an unreasonable expectation to have as things stand.
Not every day but often. I've tried FreeCAD but it runs like ass on every system I've tried it on, and by ass I mean so slow it's completely unusuable. I finished the entire design I was wanting to do in Fusion360 in the time it took to get a single rectangle sketched in FreeCAD last time I tried it.
If web browsing is your only need then you can do that on a toaster. It's not a good metric to suggest switching to Linux for most of the people looking to get off Windows. Another example of a recent problem I had was I couldn't open pdfs off my network storage because the application didn't understand the SMB in the path. Then there's the fact that my secure boot enrollment randomly disappeared which somehow prevented it from booting regardless of if secureboot was on or not and I had to start from scratch with a new install just to get going again.
Agreed. It's getting better, but there's a long way to go.
But putting a new OS on something is always going to be a worse experience than pre-installed.
For folks that can find and but something pre-installed that fits their use case, things are very nice, now. Considering most users who just want to surf and stream, it's a really good percentage of folks.
Lucky guess, I suppose - but yes - that's a more common complaint, and still an unsolved problem. I wouldn't consider it a typical user's issue. I understand how that doesn't help you.
I've had mixed-to-bad luck with SMB, both on Windows and Linux. For a counterpoint, SMB has been utter shit on Mac, for me. Buy I agree, Linux SMB support should be made better, if possible.
At least pre-installed Linux should address this, once hardware available catches up to your needs. But again, since you need more hardware, that doesn't help you, today.
Edit: To your point, I don't disagree that web browsing isn't the entirety of many people's computer experience. It's just funny to me how often AutoCad comes up. Maybe it'll be a moot point someday in the next few years.
I suspect there's a pretty big overlap between people willing to try jumping to Linux/wanting to get away from Microsoft's bullshit and DIYers who find AutoCAD useful.
Sometimes I just wanna play games at home, not fight for several hours just to get NVVM compilation failed :( It's really cool that so much is working for people on Linux these days, but it doesn't seem to be working for people like me stuck with a Nvidia card
Sadly I have to waste 512gb of ssd for windows because oculus rift cv1 drivers are not finished and haven't been worked on for a year I think...
Didn't expect to find another CV1 usr in the wild.
I wish there was a way to use bottles or whatever to use the damn thing until an affordable and usable replacement finally appears.
Found out that on the kalman filter branch thaytan is still updating it https://github.com/thaytan/OpenHMD/tree/rift-kalman-filter haven't tried out yet, because I am busy with getting my skr mini e3 reissued.
I refuse. I flat out will not. Is there a couple games I'm missing sorely? Yes. Has the devil been whispering, "Come on... just a hundred gigs for that one game... you'll only have to boot it when you play..." Also yes. But I refuse.
Not today, satan.
Run Windows in a VM
Any software that doesn't work work in a VM doesn't deserve to work at all
Yeah, I dual boot Windows
's ass outta my system >:C
I've been thinking about keeping a running windows on the side once I switch my "gaming" system. There's two things that won't work well (or at all) on Linux: fully PC-tethered wireless SteamVR with my current hardware (HTC Cosmos Elite), and a ripping software.
I might keep a small windows running for VR (although I'm currently looking into trashing the hardware if a good alternative shows up). For the ripping software, I'll just stitch a script that uses existing open source software to do roughly the same thing.
And I might just get a small box, like a 200something computer with only Steam and the wireless card, to remote play VR through it, if that's an option.
Bye bye windows.
I wish I could delete that partition for good, but my computer grqphics professor forces me to write code for DirectX instead of Vulkan.
i have a windows dual boot only for adobe and fl in case i ever wanna use it again. im 99.9% on linux nowadays (except at work)
I've got it on a vm for work stuff and shit, but raw metal is only for unix based OS ;)
That's why you don't dual boot.
Linux all the way.
How about Windows AND MacOS? Asking for a friend.
I still turn it on every few months. It's helpful to make sure that kernel works fine and it's just my VGA port making trouble. Also some beta stuff doesn't work on Linux. When friends call me to play a game that doesn't work properly after a quick install I don't have the time to search on forums. If someone could tell me how to run pirated Hades II I would be glad. It only start up once and 2nd time it crashes. I'm not gonna pay 30€ for it nor finish it in one breath.