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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Microsoft Access and Publisher, the Adobe suite, VR. That's just the tip of the iceberg of why I can't completely abandon Windows, yet. I do have a handful of older PCs running Mint though, and I'll be switching over more. But not all of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, I really need to know what you're using Access for in 2025

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Old nonprofit, old files, continuously maintained for about 30 years now. Tiny staff, not many resources to work on migrating the files. It's just not a missional priority.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's pretty impressive. We migrated an Access DB onto an SQL be about 4 years ago. Was an absolute nightmare

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Publisher is being discontinued soon and will be removed from Microsoft 365 installs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I've never used 365. I use a 2019 purchased version. I refuse to pay subscriptions. But my job has a lot of graphics that were created and are still updated in publisher. I'm sure I can find an alternative, but recreating hundreds of files will be terrible, and it will likely all fall on me. And that's only like 5% of my job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

For VR, https://lvra.gitlab.io/ is a pretty good resource for the state of VR support on Linux currently. Check their supported hardware table.