When you’re Canadian, European or basically not a US citizen, that alone should be enough reason not to use windows…don’t give your money to greedy corporate overlords of a dictatorship
Unfortunately, my vr headset requires a piece of middleware that is not Linux compatible. But, by the time 10 LTSC reaches end of life, Deckard should be available for purchase.
Also, I’ll need to re-pirate substance painter for avatar work, as GenP doesn’t do Linux either.
Lmao stealing this
I feel like a stuck record saying this, but if there was a serious contender to Group Policy on Linux I honestly think Windows in the workplace would be dead in five years.
I’m convinced everyone on Lemmy works IT
I’m convinced they all live in the moms’ basement eating chicken tendies.
I guess both of these are confessions then
Negative. Windows on Desktop uses vendor lock-in to maintain it’s user base. It’s been that way for nearly 30 years. People only think they are choosing Windows themselves. Anywhere Microsoft can not enforce vendor lock-in, Linux dominates. Even IoT, a brand new market (well it was brand new ten years ago), 80% dominated by Linux. Microsoft had to make Windows free for IoT and 9" or less devices just to try and be competitive. People only think everything is made for Windows, because OEMs are forced to sell a Windows license with every PC or lose their volume licensing deals. That means every OEM has to spend engineering dollars on Windows drivers, software, and testing. When your business has very thin margins, you can’t afford to have second or even third engineering efforts for competitor OSes. Imagine how Linux would be if PC companies were spending engineering dollars on Linux for the last 30 years. Right now the money comes primarily from server sales money. If there was demand for Linux on Desktop in the workplace, there would be tons of competing FOSS Group Policy implementations.
What about YaST?
I’ve seen YaST used at a distance and I think it’s up to the job of managing servers and headless systems but, seriously, it’s not even close to Group Policy. I not trying to sound dismissive of alternatives - I really do want a FOSS replacement - but it is hard to overstate how flexible and granular Group Policy is.
Audio production/editing. You can switch to mac but not to linux at the moment. Well, you can do on linux like 80% of what you can on windows by using Wine, but certain apps and plugins are incompatible right now. The one that holds me back is Izotope RX suite, which is a de-facto standard for audio restoration/clean-up, and it’s all because of their drm (even the cracked versions have the drm merely bypassed, but it still crashes during the initialization, at least it was like that when I last tried it a couple of months ago).
U can use bitwig (native linux version) with https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge and cracked version izotope https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6656658 https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6575804
Or ableton which works fine in wine nowdays
This ethereal concept titled “Work” is pointing a pistol towards me.
But yeah. Windows is trash. I’m going to go submit resumes and buy lottery tickets.
Yup. Trying to get various work critical specific pieces of software working on Linux is just not a reasonable concept. Dual boot is the only option.
I’m probably going to invest in some hardware to get powerful enough VMs.
Are you guys using your own computers to work? I connect vpn and then remote desktop.
I have a company issued laptop and work for a Microsoft partner.
It would be nice if they’d give me an AVD session or twelve.
My company is your standard Dell + M365 outfit, but we on the dev team can install linux because our product is an embedded linux system. It is so damn nice.
It is so tempting to wipe my Windows partition and add that space to my home directory. It just feels like there must be SOME reason they wouldn’t want me to. I don’t ever actually use it. I will occasionally fire up a windows VM to check the windows version of one of our build artifacts.
As an architect, let me know once Linux supports autodesk products and adobe products. Until then I gotta stick with windows.
I have the strong urge to point out it’s the other way around; Adobe and Autodesk have to support Linux. You’re of course right though, with the strong lock-in effect from those big companies it’s almost impossible to switch unless done on company-level. And even then project partners will expect files to be in a specific (proprietary) format most of the time.
It was really disheartening to see Ondsel ES fail, it was a valiant attempt at creating a business-grade Open-Source CAD solution based on FreeCAD. Unfortunately Autodesk’s monopoly extinguished any attempt at finding funding, despite existing interest by those who actually use that stuff (I assume Autodesk is fucking expensive like any monopoly software…). Education, Production, Distribution… those few big companies own and control literally every part. It would probably take both governmental effort as well as some kind of soft UI-standardisation to crack these power structures.
For me it is the malwares. Other platforms do not stand a chance against windows.
Agreed, my malware collection would never be this big if I couldn’t use Windows.
“My collection of rare, incurable diseases! Violated!”
Like you want a lot of malware? O.o
I’m so close to making the switch. I’m just a poor soul though who enjoys games with those annoying anti-cheats. Thinking about trying to do a duel boot just for those specific scenarios.
Thats what I have. I suggest you take 2 different drives. Makes your life a lot easier.
Yeah, windows does NOT like other systems on its drive, with separate drives it won’t steal boot
It sometimes will still decide to murder your boot manager.
Definitely duel boot. I always like to keep my options open.
duel boot
Lmao Linux and Windows sitting there like ⚔️ ⚔️ ⚔️
I realized that after I hit post. Autocorrect is weird on some apps lol
Just a PSA, The Finals is playable on Linux and is F2P with a very reasonable monetization (cosmetic only with some free cosmetic options as well) and the new season just began.
For me it scratches that multiplayer itch because the destructible environments make matches feel very dynamic.
I side-loaded Mint for a couple hours just to goof around, and then . . . never booted Windows again, quite literally forgot it was installed three days later
Sounds just like my last dual boot setup, as well.
I believe I said “I’ll just boot back to Windows next time I want to play…this game…that just launched and played perfectly under Proton…or…this other game…which also works…huh…”
VR and steam, for now.
Actually steam games work well. It’s non steam games and ones with kernel level anti cheat.
Interesting. What about Epic? (I don’t like them but free games are free games and I have a lot)
Heroic Game Launcher for Epic, GOG and Amazon games works great.
Steam deck is proton using Linux. I have hundreds of games across epic, gog, and steam. They all work just fine except for online games with certain anti cheat shit like what fortnite or gtaV use.
I have to keep a spare bootable drive laying around for these muppet companies who only have firmware update mechanisms on windows, my monitor and thunderbolt dock being two that come to mind.
Isn’t firmware flashed with JTAG or from bios from a pendrive?
Sometimes it is easier
Fusion 360 for me. Freecads incredibly user unfriendly, openscad is missing functionality and performance, and blender isn’t great for engineering modeling
There are dozens of us. Surely someone can figure out how to port F360 to Linux, or make a functional clone
I did it as long as gaming kept me there. Now I can play pretty much anything on my Linux machine. Forza fucked up. But whatever. It’s a not a game to die for.
