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    [–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    You can dual boot Windows. I'm giving everyone here express permission. You can even mass grave up an LTSC copy of windows 10 for a couple of years, it's all cool.

    Just be aware! Windows updates do fuck around with the hard drive partitions and MBR, so your copy of Linux might get bricked or partially overwritten once in awhile.

    [–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

    I was not aware of this... Thanks for the heads up. The only device I have dual booting right now is just my Lenovo Legion Go, handheld gaming. Split windows and Bazzite (fedora based)

    Guess it's time to wipe the windows. I haven't even used it that much

    [–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 14 hours ago

    Replace Jesus with Richard.

    https://xkcd.com/225/

    [–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

    Good. I'm safe. I single-boot Linux for decades.

    [–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

    As if windows would let grub live

    [–] Rooty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    "Whoops I stomped on the MBR again, what are you gonna do 'bout it?"

    [–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 14 hours ago

    Change to Linux boot loader grub and two disks... Your old piece of shit disk for windows. The good stuff for Linux. Never look back.... Unless your aunty needs help getting another virus or whatever windows offers.

    [–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    its been years since I touched my 200gb windows partition, but it might have something important i might need in future lmao

    [–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Oblivion Remaster got me relapsing because I still had leftover game pass subscription. Forgive me my lord. And holy shit Todd managed to stitch Unreal Engine on top of Creation Engine, it's black magic fuckery. Lots of esp only mods still work like wtf.

    [–] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

    That's crazy, I would not have even thought to try mods with the remaster.

    [–] gamer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

    I copied those files into my home folder years ago and wiped the partition for good.

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    [–] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    I refuse. I flat out will not. Is there a couple games I'm missing sorely? Yes. Has the devil been whispering, "Come on... just a hundred gigs for that one game... you'll only have to boot it when you play..." Also yes. But I refuse.

    Not today, satan.

    [–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    When Linux can actually do everything I want to do I'll gladly stop using Windows. It's not there yet and a lot of what it can do is still janky.

    [–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

    Sometimes I just wanna play games at home, not fight for several hours just to get NVVM compilation failed :( It's really cool that so much is working for people on Linux these days, but it doesn't seem to be working for people like me stuck with a Nvidia card

    [–] Dicska@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    There are applications that still don't have a proper Linux port, or any at all. Or maybe the ones that exist are cumbersome to use. I really hate that people downvote you for pointing this out. If you were wrong, Linux would have a much larger share already.

    I understand that some people have alternatives for everything they use; I'm happy for them, and I wish to be them. But assuming that if I can do everything I want on Linux in the same quality/convenience/whatever, then others must, as well...

    [–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Yeah it's pretty frustrating to hear so many touting it as a replacement and then being met with hostility when you try to adopt it yourself and run into problems. Like I expect there to be some friction moving to a different system but when you're hitting roadblocks every step of the way on what to you are everyday tasks in Windows it gets tiresome quick and I haven't even tried to game on it yet.

    [–] Dicska@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    As long as it's single player or you're lucky to not want to play League, PUBG, CS2 or Valorant (or RS6 or... basically any of the biggest ones), you should be fine, and there are plenty of games working under Linux. If you do... Well, not now or in the past 20 years.

    [–] dgdft@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    League ran fine for many years on Linux. The problem is Tencent, not Linux.

    Per Riot's own stats, the rates of scripting in competitive league went way up AFTER they rolled out Vanguard, so it's not about anti-cheat either.

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    [–] simop_jo@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

    I know it's Linux memes but its better than using a bit of both instead of but trying Linux at all. We need more casual people to try Linux. Not just diehards.

    Edit: typo

    [–] Bee_R@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    diehards really kill the community. I think the guys from suckles are most guilty of this

    [–] gamer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

    Are you referring to Suckless.org and their Nazi controversy (which was successfully removed from Wikipedia)

    [–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

    The Steam Deck is at least trying to attract the casual users in, and I feel like the Switch 2 getting hammered with bad press right now and getting destroyed by the Nintendo fanbase might convert a few people over to the Steam Deck too.

    [–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

    Forgive me lord, for I have sinned.

    The great flood (me not charging my laptop and leaving it in a humid place for 1.5 years) got rid of that (and everything with it), tho

    [–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 89 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    Sorry but using less Windows via dual boot setup > Not using Linux at all.

    Whatever works for people is the right choice.

    [–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    sure but this is linux memes , so nuance and rational thought mean dick all mehbreveh

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    [–] GojuRyu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I dual booted my study pc. Well technically I did. I didn’t use windows for a few months without thinking about it and by then I was too afraid of windows corrupting my linux if I ever booted it. So I effectively just had a Linux machine with half half the disk space. Never had a problem with it though.

    [–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

    I was too afraid of windows corrupting my linux if I ever booted it. So I effectively just had a Linux machine with half half the disk space. Never had a problem with it though.

    That's basically my story, as well.

    I eventually had a close call where Windows almost booted by misclick - and it scared me it was going to mess up the Linux install I actually use - and I decided the stress wasn't worth it, to me, to keep a fallback copy of Windows around.

    [–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    Β―\_(ツ)_/Β― been daily driving Linux for at least a decade now...

    But I haven't found a way to run my HTC Vive on my nvidia gpu and the updater software for my car on Linux... So I still have a dual boot for those

    [–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    updater software for my car

    Can I just point out that there was a point in time in living memory where this statement would be utterly deranged? (And it'll probably soon be unusual again because of OTA updates...)

    [–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

    Oh, it still is.

    That point in time is forever for me. I'll spend a few thousand on a really good bike before I buy a car that needs regular software updates

    [–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

    Hard agree...

    [–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Hey Jesus can you help me get Disco Elysium running on Kubuntu? I would ask for help with Fusion360 but I would probably need your dad's help with that

    [–] Spider89@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)
    [–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    I tried FreeCAD last week, and it was absolute trash. Extruding individual curves from a sketch as surfaces? Nah. Extruding multiple bodies from one sketch? Yes, but you can't select them individually for subsequent operations. Are there synchronous modeling tools? I couldn't find any. Rotation is terrible no matter which option I tried. If only I could get my SpacePilot Pro working with it. Can you even do any advanced surfacing? I could go on and on.

    I was hoping for something akin to SolidWorks, which is kind of a second-teir modeling software in my eyes, but it was just a little better than AutoCAD. Maybe I'm just spoiled with NX. I just found it completely unusable.

    [–] Spider89@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago

    FreeCAD has a... different workflow.. than other CAD's. It's confusing at first, but once learned, it's pretty easy to use.

    I have used FreeCAD in place of Fusion360 for school and I found it better. Of course, not everyone will have basic operations and a different tool has a new learning curve.

    Keep in mind that FreeCAD is also in development. No company (that I know) backs the development, making an open-source versatile CAD software takes a lot of time and has a lot of bugs/limitations.

    I know I shouldn't say this, but hopefully all tools (even non-free) will be available under Linux.

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    i can play stardew valley natively in linux. there's no reason to dual boot.

    [–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Windows to my linux partition:

    (this is why I wont dual boot)

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    [–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I'm so sorry Jesus, I just wanted to play some tarkov

    [–] tauren@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago

    Believe it or not, straight to hell.

    How about Windows AND MacOS? Asking for a friend.

    [–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 days ago (10 children)

    I just wanna use my hdr monitor bro

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    [–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    I've been thinking about keeping a running windows on the side once I switch my "gaming" system. There's two things that won't work well (or at all) on Linux: fully PC-tethered wireless SteamVR with my current hardware (HTC Cosmos Elite), and a ripping software.

    I might keep a small windows running for VR (although I'm currently looking into trashing the hardware if a good alternative shows up). For the ripping software, I'll just stitch a script that uses existing open source software to do roughly the same thing.

    And I might just get a small box, like a 200something computer with only Steam and the wireless card, to remote play VR through it, if that's an option.

    Bye bye windows.

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