Found in the FOSS Weekly: https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-12/
My only real reason is the amount of stuff I’d have to move over
Video games.
shitty anticheat protected games where the dev has specifically chose to block linux?
hdr and mod organiser 2
As an architect, let me know once Linux supports autodesk products and adobe products. Until then I gotta stick with windows.
Wait, there’s something scrawled on the corner down here in crayon…
i’m lazy
Fusion 360
Cubase
I need to connect to my work machine with RDP and I tried using Remmina. Sometimes it works fine, but sometimes the special key stop working( ctrls + s will type s instead of saving) Also there are visual glitches on a second monitor. I had to switch back to windows.
Can anyone recommend a different RDP client?
@Rusty @Kory Usually i using http://www.rdesktop.org/, but it is not actively developed now
I’ll try it, thanks.
Only thing are my files, that are pretty tricky to transfer securely while maintaining compatibility (i dualboot)
For me it’s Nvidia tech, VR, and HDR, even if they’re technically supported, they’re much more of a hassle than on Windows.
Funnily enough, I’ve seen opinions that Windows has awful HDR handling and Plasma is much better, but I don’t have a proper HDR display to check. I’ve also had some success with VR, though I haven’t played much on Linux. That said, support from software for those things for Linux is still widely lacking, so it’s not much consolation.
The thing with Windows is that it’s very much set and forget with HDR. I don’t bother with auto HDR since it isn’t great, but I just enable HDR, and have RTX HDR handle non-HDR games. I don’t really need to touch anything else or launch games in a specific way to get it working. I’ve tried VR with Linux but I’ve been spoiled by the accessibility of VD.
I have a decent list of software I need it for unfortunately so I’m keeping my best PC on Windows, but I have four PCs in the house. I’ve been running Linux on one of them for a couple years but the other two will be moved over by Windows 10 EOL.
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…”
Tax perp software was the only thing I needed it for in the last year. I haven’t converted my gaming PC to Linux yet, but I don’t anticipate an issue.
I keep a windows LTSC install around purely for Escape from Tarkov. Everything else I play works great on Linux.
I’m going to give you the secret to switching. Go all AMD for your build, and leave everything you know about Windows software and how it works at the door. Learn to use Linux. Expecting it and Linux software to work like Windows is the pitfall.
To be fair. In my experience, everything mostly does work like in windows. But I always think it’s like attributing Windows switching to Linux as Mac to Windows.
Mac users are used to not dealing with the registry, lusrmgr, local group policies in the same way Windows users aren’t used to dealing with fstab, grub, proton, wine, various desktop environment tweaks.
Msm flash tool, I need windows for this
Msm flash tool
If that’s all you need. I bet you could just run it from WINE. I updated my PS5 controller using the PlayStation flash tool or whatever it’s called. I used Bottles to do all the WINE stuff. Just installed the flash tool and it worked like it was Windows. Pretty shocked if I’m being honest.
