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hemko ,

Where Linux?

veganpizza69 ,
@veganpizza69@lemmy.world avatar

Precisely.

This is a negative space meme. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_space

hemko ,

True, but Linux memes being 50% about macos/windows gets tiresome

Engywuck ,

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

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?

EherNicht ,

They want to prevent spooky programs running in the kernel (like crowdstrike) which may break the whole system. Source: theverge.com/…/microsoft-windows-changes-crowdstr…

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

please.

EherNicht ,

It seems quite likely actually. The only problem might be them noticing the benefit for GNU/Linux.

Buelldozer ,
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today avatar

Perhaps I’m being dense but how do you see this helping Linux Gaming?

Even assuming that VBS-E allows Game Devs to shift their current kernel based anti-cheat over to it there’s no guarantee that Linux will get a compatible VBS-E module nor that Game Devs would allow its use.

I guess I see it as: If a Game Dev does this (use VBS-E) AND Linux gets a compatible module AND Game Devs allow its use THEN newer games may not have the same problem with anti-cheat as older ones.

EherNicht ,

The way I understand it is that every anticheat needs to be overhauled as they can no longer tap into the kernel/get kernel access. So the anticheat has to eun in userspace. This can also be done under GNU/Linux which is why anticheat should work on both platforms.

Buelldozer ,
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today avatar

The way I understand it is that every anticheat needs to be overhauled as they can no longer tap into the kernel/get kernel access.

Yes, if we assume that various institutions (cough cough looking at you EU) allow MS to remove kernel access.

So the anticheat has to eun in userspace.

VSB-E isn’t really “user space” but your point about the kernel is valid.

hich is why anticheat should

The word “should” is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence. Even if it COULD that doesn’t mean devs will allow it nor does it mean that existing games will get updated on EITHER platform. Removing a kernel level anti-cheat could easily be the death of some older games on Windows as the owner simply doesn’t want to put the money into making it work.

I’m honestly not too sure how possible it is to make VSB-E work on *nix either, since it appears to use Microsoft Hyper-V technologies at its core and those wouldn’t be available in *nix. That means that we’d be back to Game Devs having to specifically write anti-cheat for *nix…which is something they can already do if they want.

VSB-E is interesting but I’m not convinced its going to do anything for Linux Gaming at all. Hopefully I am wrong. :)

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.

index ,

There are plenty of games that runs on linux just fine

libregaming.org/play-libre-games/

The games you mentioned don’t seem to have anything so special that they are worth trading for your privacy and freedom over.

veng ,

CS2: Try using -sdlaudiodriver pipewire in launch options

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.

Petter1 ,

😱😭😫🤬

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…

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.

TheRedSpade ,

Now I get to deal with my keyboard backlight not working

Could I get that problem please? Pretty much any keyboard anymore comes with a backlight which I can’t even imagine being useful to anyone who can type. If they provide a way to turn it off, it’s via Windows-only software.

stochasticity ,

I type in the dark sometimes. But it’s not on by default either.

BlemboTheThird ,

Have you tried different distros? Some hardware is supported better by different forks. I myself have an odd situation with an old laptop that got weird Bluetooth audio issues on stock Ubuntu, but having swapped it over to mint (which is supposedly just Ubuntu under the hood!) it works flawlessly.

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

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.

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.

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”?

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).

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)

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…

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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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.)

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 ,
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

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

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.

tfw_no_toiletpaper ,

It has the best FPS raids mechanics imo

thisbenzingring ,

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 bad Linux users, pretending it’s for keeping cheaters off but that’s laughable.

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