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I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (11 children)

linux is great, but i still need to dual boot windows for some incompatible (art) software :/

and don't tell me to just use wine it doesn't work i've tried it doggirl-tears

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    i'll look into it, ty! though im not sure how it'll run with my drawing tablet and such

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Never used wineboat but something to be aware of is VMs usually can interact with peripherals natively (as if they were the host computer) but this is almost always disabled by default as people usually use VMs to isolate stuff.

    So you may need to adjust options

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    if that doesn't work maybe try libvirt? it's got usb passthrough so you should be able to mostly use peripherals any way you want. also it's got a gui like virtualbox so the hardest part is turning on hardware-accelerated virtualization/hyper-v in your bios

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    i'll look into it! unfortunately my tablet is not plug and play and requires drivers so hopefully that's not a problem

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I know this sounds silly but have you tried running it through steam for proton? Not saying it will work or anything but it might? Might also need to install stuff in wine through proton tricks to get it to work (it’s not that bad, you just pick what thing to download from a searchable list. Just have to know what it needs.)

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Same but with virtual instruments. Almost no native compatibility and emulation is made basically impossible by the fact that you open them through another piece of software

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