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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
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
Good. I’m safe. I single-boot Linux for decades.
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.
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.
As if windows would let grub live
i can play stardew valley natively in linux. there’s no reason to dual boot.
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
“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.
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.
I bought a second drive and am booting up PopOS from there. Am I safe from Jesus?
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.
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.
Replace Jesus with Richard.
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.
