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[–] 57 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I'll legitimately be moving to Linux today. This just broke the camel's back for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can second this! For me it meant that I could finish my game of modded fallout new vegas, and connect to my work's microsoft vpn nonsense (IT support didn't fancy trying it on Mint but that's another story!)

    I now have a personal OS that I like, and a windows partition for those few things that I can't be bothered to troubleshoot.

    So far the list is just those things and the Unity Engine as Visual Studio debugs better than code in my experience. :)

    Having the option to flick back is great :) In the XP days, I loved the WUBI(?) tool that let you install ubuntu dual boot as an exe, but I think that's not a thing these days., :)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Currently playing fallout New Vegas modded on Linux! Of course if you already did it, remodding and transferring the saves would be frustrating, but it is actually pretty simple once you learn how to use Steam Tinker Launch.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    @Ilandar this is a good solution . Another would be to just not jump ship head first, but rather replace everything wth FOSS alternatives instead if they're not available on Linux (e.g.: replace MS Office with LibreOffice, Photoshop with GIMP or something else, etc.) and use them for a while. Most of the programs should also be available for Windows, and if not you could also use WSL to run them.

    Once you get used to these programs, the actual Linux transition should be easier.

    @Onii-Chan

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  • As others said, trial and error, and patience. My two cents, as a Windows convert who likes to game, I did PopOS. If you have an nvidia card they have a version with the drivers baked in. Steam was relatively easy, there were only a few things I had to go to the terminal for. Now it's my daily driver and I actually just uninstalled Windows a few months ago.

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