Man, we as a community really ought to put more effort and resources helping out FreeCAD.
For me it's all about learning freecad so I can look down upon the cloud cad peasants 😹
For real though I completely agree. Freecad is just a plugin away from having a more accessible UI.
the ui is actually pretty good when you get used to it imo, it's just that it's very busy and intimidating for beginners
I think there should just be a simple builtin tutorial that beginners can access, that guides them through making a cylinder or something to assure them that freecad isn't as intimidating as it looks
They are really putting in the work to make FreeCAD not suck. I was a SolidWorks pro and still found FreeCAD quite unintuitive to use. Ondsel has fixed a lot of those issues... looking at you dimensioning tool. It also "just works" on Linux which is really nice (a friend tried on windows and not so much lol)
First person to come up with a time machine, can you make your first trip back to the early 80s and buy 86-DOS and open source it before Bill gets his grubby hands on it?
..and make it unix based, for good lord, I hate CMD/ps commands
Plot twist, you have to partner with Richard Stallman for the first open source licensing to get off the ground and end up with GNU plus BSD and its all powershell commands.
On a more serious note as a windows user it just does a good enough job that I don't want to put in any effort for something better.
Same but the moment windows 10 shits the bed I may be looking at more serious alternate offerings.
I dream of a world where I don't have to dual boot.
Due to planned virtualisation in Windows this will probably soon be the case for people who Dual boot due to anticheat.
Due to planned virtualisation in Windows
I must have missed something. What are you referencing with this comment?
They want to prevent spooky programs running in the kernel (like crowdstrike) which may break the whole system. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206719/microsoft-windows-changes-crowdstrike-kernel-driver
Just built my first fully dedicated Linux machine. Still keeping my old Windows desktop around purely because I play League of Legends and they use a kernel level anticheat, so it won't run on VM.
Fun fact, ever since Riot made it mandatory to install their rootkit if you want to play their games, every time I try to eject a flash drive, it says it can't eject because it's in use - even if I just plugged it in. And that's super comforting.
It's not like Riot Games is fully owned by Tencent or anything...
But if you still want to play the game, having a computer that you only use for league, with nothing else installed, is the best way to go about it
The best sandbox is made of bare metal.
Alright, as much as I want to give Microsoft the double birds and leave, way too many modding programs are .exe based.
And I just cannot yet be fucked to learn how to do per-app emulation. It scares me, things just sort of work here, and I can give them one and a half birds by removing almost all their telemetry garbage.
That being said I do really like the idea of Linux, I just want a little bit more idiot friendliness out of it
HOW DARE YOU NOT WANNA SPEND 8 HOURS A DAY FIXING YOUR SETUP
Who the hell is down voting this? This couldn't be more satire if it tried!
People are silly
their ecosystem of apps is buggy as fuck.
teams and outlook always gives me headaches.
What the fuck is all this anti-Windows 11 talk? I have never had a problem with it. Is it because of functionality or something else? Because, functionality wise, it’s been fine for me. 🤷🏼♂️
Oh shit I didn’t realize this was in Linux. Welp o7 I go down with my ship lmao
Brave of you to walk into the ~~lion's~~ linux den with that
I was genuinely like, “oh no no no no” when I noticed. But oh well, it’s kinda funny to me.
Right now it's pretty much just HDR and music production softwares that don't run on Linux.
Windows is so unstable
I switched to Linux on a laptop of mine because an update to windows caused it to not boot.
Now I get to deal with my keyboard backlight not working, sometimes the keyboard freezing on resume, my Bluetooth not connecting on the first try, and my wifi sometimes not working, but it boots fine every time.
Different tools (or even preferences) for different people, you know...
HDR and VR, that's it. And everything that isn't gaming happens on my Framework laptop running NixOS anyways.
Dual booting is still using Windows.
(I'm not saying dual booting is bad, I'm just saying it doesn't count as not using Windows, which is what most Windows users are opposed to, not to dual-booting with Linux.)
It was VR and davinci
Then I found out arch runs davinci flawlessly.
Now I have arch Linux and "VR mode" (windows)
I had to work with a win 11 system today. I needed to fast move through a lot of pictures with the m$ image viewer, every time I delete a picture it does a fucking slow animation which just steals my time.
Okay, I went to the win-settings and removed animations. Photo-app still does animations...
FU M$.
I just want proper HDR support in games. Since that's most of what I use my laptop for these days, Windows it is.
Bazzite has HDR support out of the box. Steam deck interface, meaning it has a regular desktop as well. Pretty straightforward.
Tarkov and Destiny 2 mainly.
Also I have a laptop I use from time to time running mint, few games installed. The games itself work okayish but the amount of times I need to "fix" some bullshit is annoying. Last things I remember were the touchpad being wonky and games having extreme tearing on HDMI, no matter if vsync was on or off.
I might try pop os some time but honestly my windows machine runs mostly without fault for years now (just cannot use any gpu drivers after march 24, but that's on nvidia) and at the end of the day I just want to consoome without fiddling in settings every time.
I don't use it (haven't used Windows in decades), but I kept a small partition with Windows 11 on it which I boot from time to time as I enjoy watching what it's becoming.
It's like watching a slow motion industrial accident. Horrifying fascination.
Isn't it like a famous american philosopher once sang:
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose ...
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