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[-] untorquer@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago

Solidworks/PDM at work. 🙄

No it won't be changing until Win11 actually breaks or dassault scraps PDM(actually as much or more of a trashfire as windows). I'll just find a new career eventually.

[-] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It took me a bit to figure out, but winapps might work for you. A couple of applications I use at work require me to have a windows VM, which is still way less of a headache than straight windows.

[-] untorquer@quokk.au 2 points 21 hours ago

Thanks for looking out but sadly it's a company owned laptop administered by IT.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

On my work laptop I boot to Aurora Linux from an USBC caddy with an M2 SSD inside. The laptop's internal drive is still factory fresh.

Ask your IT guy, he might be cool with that. The laptop itself is unchanged. Windows OEM license untouched.

[-] untorquer@quokk.au 2 points 14 hours ago

I guess i haven't thought much about live booting. I guess that could be nice for travel. Bring one fewer devices.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

Technically, it's not live booting. It's normally installed, just on an external drive. The OS doesn't feel the difference. You just chose to boot to it from the BIOS. I set it to always boot to Linux by default and Windows as a fallback.

[-] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Glad you have a cool IT team. As an IT guy, I also want to remind people that if you don't ask, the answer is automatically no.

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