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Microsoft moving fully to the cloud, does this mean something to us?
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I'd need to check into whether Linux is also viable with the software I use: I'm starting a game design degree in September, so there's a wide variety of software, including the Adobe suite, that I'll be tied to for at least the next three years.
It's also worth to mention that there are options like Blender/Krita/Godot wich are quite good and don't require tooling like Wine.
But those might not be a viable option if your courses are specific to Adobe products.
But really, check those out anyways, it's worth it.
My plan at the moment, I think, is to wait until I have a full list of which softwares I'll be using (which I won't get until the course begins - the college pays for it all), and then make a decision. Based on the partial list I have, about half are compatible with Linux. I do also have the option of having Linux on my desktop and Windows on my laptop.
I'm definitely going to do some more research. The last time I looked into it, Linux wasn't compatible with the vast majority of the software I used and games I played, and there weren't many suitable alternatives. That situation has definitely changed by the looks of it, so I just need to research some more specific things.
For anything that you really can't get on Linux:
People have probably told you that Wine is the way to use it anyways, but maybe no one's mentioned Bottles which makes using Wine dead easy. Most of the time you can sort of just open up Bottles, run the installer for the software through there, make sure Bottles knows where the .exe is for the actual program is and you're good to go.
Brilliant recommendation, thank you! I was looking at Wine and feeling a bit intimidated by it. Bottles looks more straightforward.