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arin ,

Auto HDR… I have one HDR monitor and one SDR monitor and w11 plays nicely, Nvidia app still won’t work with more than one monitor for their version of auto HDR

possiblylinux127 ,

It is getting there. KDE has support and I think gnome is not to far behind

tfw_no_toiletpaper ,

Tarkov and Destiny 2 mainly.

Also I have a laptop I use from time to time running mint, few games installed. The games itself work okayish but the amount of times I need to “fix” some bullshit is annoying. Last things I remember were the touchpad being wonky and games having extreme tearing on HDMI, no matter if vsync was on or off.

I might try pop os some time but honestly my windows machine runs mostly without fault for years now (just cannot use any gpu drivers after march 24, but that’s on nvidia) and at the end of the day I just want to consoome without fiddling in settings every time.

Lumisal ,

Tryp BazziteOS next instead of Pop. It’s a Linux OS that’s designed for gaming and comes with all drivers, emulators, proton, etc out of the box. Also based on Fedora, which in my experience does better in the gaming department.

tfw_no_toiletpaper ,

Thanks, I’ll save this comment and try it out when I switch

Unreliable ,

Yeah I can back this. I switched to Bazzite about 6+ months ago after messing with Linux on the Steamdeck and I haven’t looked back.

hipsterdoofus ,

AutoHDR/SpecialK, AFMF, proper scaling on multiple monitors with mixed resolutions, Freesync

In time I’ll switch, but for me the extra gaming features on W11 are just nice.

Presi300 ,
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But all of these things, except AutoHDR (coming soon tm) already exist on linux though… Scaling and Freesync, especially haven’t been an issue on linux for a while if you use the right desktop (KDE Plasma or GNOME on wayland)

umbrella , (edited )
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their ecosystem of apps is buggy as fuck.

teams and outlook always gives me headaches.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,
@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca avatar

Ugh, outlook has been dropping support for email standards for a while now, it’s getting close to a proprietary standard now.

Lucidlethargy ,

Teams is genuinely hot garbage. Outlook is actually far worse, even… The latest versions are buggy and broken.

goblinsharksama ,

Only reason i keep a windows box around. Valorant and tft

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.

Dartboard4 ,

Bazzite has HDR support out of the box. Steam deck interface, meaning it has a regular desktop as well. Pretty straightforward.

PrinzKasper ,
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HDR and G-Sync on multi-monitor setups are two big things holding me back. And also yeah I like to play CoD and CS2 FaceIT lol.

possiblylinux127 ,

It is very close to being something that just works

lolcatnip ,

In that case I guess I’m very close to running Linux again.

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.

Lucidlethargy ,

Don’t they know about Linux?!?11!

tfw_no_toiletpaper ,

It has the best FPS raids mechanics imo

thisbenzingring , (edited )

LoL people on a Linux subreddit supporting a game that doesn’t work on Linux only because the developers don’t want it to. And actively ban Linux users, pretending it’s for keeping cheaters off but that’s laughable.

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

Presi300 ,
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I knew it was a /s the moment you mentioned you like valorant… Nobody hates themselves that much

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.)

bufalo1973 ,
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You start dual-booting and end up booting always in Linux.

silasmariner ,

Well yeah because booting into Linux is so much faster

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.

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palordrolap ,

The only way to prevent dual booting would require a UEFI/BIOS that pulls the OS straight over a network, bypassing local storage entirely.

Even if that didn't already rule it out, the size that OSes are these days makes it even less likely. At least not unless Microsoft (or whoever) are planning to ditch absolutely everyone who doesn't have gigabit internet. (It would be kind of funny for an OS to go back to being 1990s-sized to mitigate that though. And funnier still when someone inevitably captures it onto a hard disk anyway.)

A more likely vector would be to deliberately break third party bootloaders every time Windows boots. And that would last until the next anti-trust / monopoly lawsuit and they'd roll it back to the current behaviour of only breaking third party bootloaders on installation.

And even if somehow that didn't get rolled back, just wait until hardware vendors introduce this thing called a "switch" that can be added just before the power connector on an SSD. Can't boot from a drive that has no power. BIOS defaults to the next SATA channel. And now you're booting into Linux.

Doing the same for a mobo-mounted NVMe drive is harder but not impossible.

onlinepersona ,

Hmmmm, I think you interpreted my comment as microsoft trying to make dual booting impossible? I meant it wouldn’t be necessary anymore, because one would just require linux with a browser to access windows if need be.

The simplest way I can imagine to forcefully disable dualbooting is do what Malus does: control the hardware and only allow one signed OS on there. Don’t trust anything else.

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palordrolap ,

(FWIW the downvote wasn't me)

That sounds like you're suggesting that Microsoft wouldn't care what was installed locally to be able to net-boot / run the rest of Windows.

I think it's all but certain that they'd want user's computers to to boot into something they made, or at the very least, slapped their branding all over, even if that was only a wrapper for their web browser.

I can definitely see them going down the line of saying that their online apps aren't guaranteed to work under any other system, going so far as to throw in a few deliberate stumbling hazards for anything that isn't theirs. (Until anti-trust, etc.)

And thus, dual booting will still be something that people do. Even if - as you clarified - they're not going to cripple that as well.

onlinepersona ,

I think it’s all but certain that they’d want user’s computers to to boot into something they made, or at the very least, slapped their branding all over, even if that was only a wrapper for their web browser.

Oh yeah, absolutely. They might even make Edge send some additional data to verify that it’s the browser being used. They might even add attestation with a binary is pinging Microsoft with messages signed by a microsoft private unique per machine and generated when the user signs in. They could add a paid subscription to limit the number of devices connecting to the cloud instance. For an extra fee they could add connection “from any device or browser”.

Or or or. There are a bunch of things they can do. They could also, as I said, just allow any browser to connect, but looking back, yeah, that’s probably naive.

Who knows and who knows how fast (or slow) governments would react.

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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 ,
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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

mvirts ,

That’s a good idea, and I think that teaching yourself parametric CAD for the first time in freecad is extra difficult because it is easy to do things that look like they may work but actually break you model (especially dragging stuff around in the hierarchy).

captain_aggravated ,
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The best parametric CAD tutorials I found were those for OnShape.

anivia ,

Onshape and Fusion360 both have tons of great tutorials available, and they are completely free for non-commercial use. There is a reason those are used by almost everyone in the 3d printing community.

captain_aggravated ,
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“And they are completely free for non-commercial use.” I have seen both of their “community” or “maker” tiers get worse over time; the terms of those licenses becoming less permissive. I’ve been told by an Autodesk employee that it doesn’t exist for Fusion360. “There is no free software here.” I suggest against building anything that matters to you against those platforms.

bluewing ,

As long as you don’t need much, they are free. But, the good stuff is all pay to play.

sexual_tomato ,

I’m a mechanical engineer and have spent literal years in front of Creo and SolidWorks. Trying to use FreeCAD felt like flying a Cessna 172 after being accustomed to a business jet; they can ostensibly get you where you need to go, but the cost in effort to use the tool is not worth the cost saved in buying the commercial tool.

Jumuta ,

totally get your point but I just don’t want to relearn the cad program when those proprietary options inevitably enshittify lmao

possiblylinux127 ,

Foss tends to struggle with UI design. Gnome is the best UI I have scene from an app UI perspective.

bluewing ,

FreeCAD’s UI is good enough to work, but not to everyone’s taste. Personally, I detest the clown car UI of Fusion and it’s lack of customization for my work flow - custom pie menus rock. Something that FreeCAD allows the user to do. Not to mention the half-assed mix of local install/cloud that is Fusion360. It locks your projects in the cloud subject to AutoDesk’s whims, but eats your local storage. At least OnShape and TinkerCAD is all cloud and honest about it. But it’s all pay to play if you want access to the good stuff.

They are improving the FreeCAD UI slowly. The Ondsel version, (based on the 0.22 Dev release), gets high marks from a lot of users about the UI design. Not my personal cup 'o tea, but I do see the allure for many users. Besides, if you don’t like how it works, you can easily customize things to your personal tastes.

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)

pineapplelover ,

There’s also Blender and Openscad. Both really good

grue ,

They’re both really good (considerably better at what they do than FreeCAD is, to be honest), but they don’t do what FreeCAD does. Blender is for art, so that’s a different thing entirely. OpenSCAD does mechanical part design, but it only does mechanical part design. FreeCAD can do architectural CAD, BIM (Building Information Modeling), civil engineering stuff (e.g. working with survey data/site elevation), FEA (Finite Element Analysis), 2D drafting, stuff with NURBS and point clouds, texturing/lighting/rendering, CAM and CNC (i.e. toolpaths for a mill or 3D printer), etc.

pineapplelover ,

I have actual designed 3d print stuff in Blender and it turned out fine. There are people out there who only use Blender for 3d modeling and there are even plug ins that allow better functionality. Though, I’ve been trying to transition to Freecad since it’s much more cad focused.

ian ,
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Yes. For me, creating car body shells, FreeCAD doesn’t come close. It seems most FOSS programmers don’t need complex shape surfacing to scratch an itch, so that is a long way off. For now.

possiblylinux127 ,

I wish the had some sort of paid version. (No proprietary software though)

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”?

possiblylinux127 ,

Kernel live patching?

Anyway I’ve scene Linux boxes run for literal years because people forgot about them. For context that happens in a virtual environment

Bishma , (edited )
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Fusion360 is the 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.

Gumus ,

I switched from Fusion to Onshape and it’s been a treat. The option to use it on an Android tablet is a great bonus.

Bishma ,
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Public only storage is a dealbreaker for me.

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

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