• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • piranhaconda@mander.xyz
      2·
      6 days ago

      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

    • sheogorath@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 days ago

      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.

    • gamer@lemm.ee
      4·
      7 days ago

      I copied those files into my home folder years ago and wiped the partition for good.

    • HereIAm@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      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.

  • Die Martin Die@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    7 days ago

    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

    • altphoto@lemmy.today
      2·
      6 days ago

      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.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    7 days ago

    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

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        7 days ago

        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

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
        11·
        6 days ago

        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.

        • Spider89@lemm.ee
          1·
          6 days ago

          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.

  • Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world
    921·
    8 days ago

    Sorry but using less Windows via dual boot setup > Not using Linux at all.

    Whatever works for people is the right choice.

    • Lem Jukes@lemm.eeEnglish
      39·
      8 days ago

      sure but this is linux memes , so nuance and rational thought mean dick all mehbreveh

        • Lem Jukes@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          7 days ago

          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

    • nope@jlai.lu
      6·
      7 days ago

      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

    • SeekPie@lemm.ee
      5·
      7 days ago

      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).