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

    It's TruckersMP for me because it's built on .NET libraries and I can't get truckersmp-cli to load my DLCs for whatever reason :|

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

    Literally just steam VR in home streaming is all I need to fully dump windows.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    video games work pretty well in general

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

    As an architect, let me know once Linux supports autodesk products and adobe products. Until then I gotta stick with windows.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

    shitty anticheat protected games where the dev has specifically chose to block linux?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

    My only real reason is the amount of stuff I'd have to move over

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

    hdr and mod organiser 2

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

    Wait, there's something scrawled on the corner down here in crayon...

    i'm lazy

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

    Fusion 360

    Cubase

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

    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..."

    [–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    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.

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

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

    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.

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

    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?

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

    @Rusty @Kory Usually i using http://www.rdesktop.org/, but it is not actively developed now

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

    I'll try it, thanks.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    I feel like a stuck record saying this, but if there was a serious contender to Group Policy on Linux I honestly think Windows in the workplace would be dead in five years.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

    Negative. Windows on Desktop uses vendor lock-in to maintain it's user base. It's been that way for nearly 30 years. People only think they are choosing Windows themselves. Anywhere Microsoft can not enforce vendor lock-in, Linux dominates. Even IoT, a brand new market (well it was brand new ten years ago), 80% dominated by Linux. Microsoft had to make Windows free for IoT and 9" or less devices just to try and be competitive. People only think everything is made for Windows, because OEMs are forced to sell a Windows license with every PC or lose their volume licensing deals. That means every OEM has to spend engineering dollars on Windows drivers, software, and testing. When your business has very thin margins, you can't afford to have second or even third engineering efforts for competitor OSes. Imagine how Linux would be if PC companies were spending engineering dollars on Linux for the last 30 years. Right now the money comes primarily from server sales money. If there was demand for Linux on Desktop in the workplace, there would be tons of competing FOSS Group Policy implementations.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I'm convinced everyone on Lemmy works IT

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I'm convinced they all live in the moms' basement eating chicken tendies.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I guess both of these are confessions then

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    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

    When you're Canadian, European or basically not a US citizen, that alone should be enough reason not to use windows..don't give your money to greedy corporate overlords of a dictatorship

    [–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately, my vr headset requires a piece of middleware that is not Linux compatible. But, by the time 10 LTSC reaches end of life, Deckard should be available for purchase.

    Also, I'll need to re-pirate substance painter for avatar work, as GenP doesn't do Linux either.

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

    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.

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

    I keep a windows LTSC install around purely for Escape from Tarkov. Everything else I play works great on Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (10 children)

    I'm so close to making the switch. I'm just a poor soul though who enjoys games with those annoying anti-cheats. Thinking about trying to do a duel boot just for those specific scenarios.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Thats what I have. I suggest you take 2 different drives. Makes your life a lot easier.

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