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lolcatnip ,

I just want proper HDR support in games. Since that’s most of what I use my laptop for these days, Windows it is.

thisbenzingring ,

For a couple of my friends, it Destiny 2. What a lame game to cling to

Gerudo ,

Yeah, how dare they have fun playing a game they want.

BmeBenji ,

oooooooohohohohohoho you really got me with that last one.

Though at least I’m only addicted to R6: Siege and not CoD or Valorant like a fucking pleb

Edit: a MASSIVE /s I do unironically love Siege and it is actually what’s keeping Windows installed on my PC, but I admit it’s in no way a good reason to keep malware on my machine

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Dual booting is still using Windows.

(I’m not saying dual booting is bad, I’m just saying it doesn’t count as not using Windows, which is what most Windows users are opposed to, not to dual-booting with Linux.)

onlinepersona ,

We just have to wait until Windows 12, the cloud OS, and dual boot will be no more. All that’ll be necessary is a browser and a fast internet connection. CoD and Valorant players though… dunno what to do about them. Pro gaming won’t be possible without running windows locally to get the highest framerate.

Anti Commercial-AI license

Anarki_ ,

I don’t want to dual boot, mainly because of the risk of Linux randomly eating my Windows install.

wfh ,

Windows randomly nuking the EFI partition is very much more a reality.

Anarki_ ,

So it can go either way, they can both eat eachother?

Does this happen even if they’re on separate harddrives?

wfh ,

I’ve never heard of Linux destroying a Windows partition unless there’s a blatant user error.

Robin ,

I’d be more worried about the windows bootloader deciding to overwrite grub

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Ive literally never heard of that. Windows can overwrite grub/your bootloader though (easy fix, just boot into a live usb and reinstall grub).

If Linux eats your Windows install that’s a serious bug. That means it’s overwritten data on a drive that’s not even mounted, without you directing it to do so.

Anarki_ ,

Disclaimer: I’m not knowledgeable about the “under the hood” things on Linux OR Windows. I’ve just heard it can happen and really don’t want that for myself.

But I guess anything can happen…

grue ,

Man, we as a community really ought to put more effort and resources helping out FreeCAD.

mvirts ,

For me it’s all about learning freecad so I can look down upon the cloud cad peasants 😹

For real though I completely agree. Freecad is just a plugin away from having a more accessible UI.

Jumuta , (edited )

the ui is actually pretty good when you get used to it imo, it’s just that it’s very busy and intimidating for beginners

I think there should just be a simple builtin tutorial that beginners can access, that guides them through making a cylinder or something to assure them that freecad isn’t as intimidating as it looks

WagnasT ,

I try to use dxf instead of dwg when I can, it’s got everything I need. I think the public sector should require open standards for submissions.

stoi ,

Ondsel

They are really putting in the work to make FreeCAD not suck. I was a SolidWorks pro and still found FreeCAD quite unintuitive to use. Ondsel has fixed a lot of those issues… looking at you dimensioning tool. It also “just works” on Linux which is really nice (a friend tried on windows and not so much lol)

superweeniehutjrs ,

I used to pride myself in Linux uptime on my desktop. Went without rebooting for months at a time. Back then, I wouldn’t let myself dual boot

bazus1 ,

“no boot Nobember”?

Bishma ,
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Fusion360 is only software I use that I cannot get running on Linux. So my wife’s last macbook now lives to play Tidal in our garage and run NoMachine so I can remote into it for Fusion.

Cris16228 ,

Windows 11? I have Windows 10 in dual but using Linux only, I just don’t want to remove everything even if Windows is shit… I’m only disappointed there’s no Affinity Designer on linux :( I know it’s full of alternatives but I like the UI and I’m used to it

MataVatnik ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

Windows is so unstable

TurtleTourParty ,

I switched to Linux on a laptop of mine because an update to windows caused it to not boot.

Now I get to deal with my keyboard backlight not working, sometimes the keyboard freezing on resume, my Bluetooth not connecting on the first try, and my wifi sometimes not working, but it boots fine every time.

BCsven ,

Adobe, OK. SolidWorks? Nah. NX is a higher-end CAD solution (costs more though) and runs on RHEL or SUSE

Dadifer ,

Yay! SolidWorks was literally the last thing keeping me on Windows

Edit: Um, why does the Siemens website say it only supports the license server since 2020?

CuriousRefugee ,

I miss NX. My company uses SolidWorks, and it’s…okay, I guess? But I’m aggravated on a weekly basis because it doesn’t do something that NX could. But cost is the issue. I think you can get like 5 SW licenses for the cost of a single NX one.

jaaake ,

Adobe works pretty good on another non-Windows OS…

TimeSquirrel ,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org avatar

First person to come up with a time machine, can you make your first trip back to the early 80s and buy 86-DOS and open source it before Bill gets his grubby hands on it?

Petter1 ,

…and make it unix based, for good lord, I hate CMD/ps commands

Spiralvortexisalie ,

Plot twist, you have to partner with Richard Stallman for the first open source licensing to get off the ground and end up with GNU plus BSD and its all powershell commands.

Aurenkin ,

I dream of a world where I don’t have to dual boot.

EherNicht ,

Due to planned virtualisation in Windows this will probably soon be the case for people who Dual boot due to anticheat.

Aurenkin ,

That would be awesome! There’s still the odd game I can’t run unrelated to anti cheat but that would still be a huge win.

Buelldozer ,
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today avatar

Due to planned virtualisation in Windows

I must have missed something. What are you referencing with this comment?

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Out of curiosity what do you dual boot for? I used to dual boot for gaming but I’ve lately found that proton works very well with my games and there is no need to run Windows for anything

Aurenkin ,

Yeah proton works really well for me for the vast majority of my games but there are a few that don’t. I dual boot solely to play those.

  • Star Citizen - much worse performance for me using Linux.
  • Cyberpunk - Used to work fine but started crashing on Linux for me
  • Counter Strike 2 - Audio cuts out after about 15 - 20 minutes on Linux.
  • Supreme Commander - Frequent crashes on Linux.

I think people can run most of those fine but I haven’t had luck and don’t spend much time tinkering.

skulblaka , (edited )
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

Cyberpunk works great on Proton 7. I was playing it last night. It crashes on updated/experimental Proton but by forcing compatibility to Proton 7.0-6 I played for about 4 hours with no issues.

Engywuck ,

Different tools (or even preferences) for different people, you know…

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