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[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

and that's the only long-term winning move, because MS shenanigans will never end

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Exactly. All the latest chaos that Microsoft does, you know you'll be immune and your desktop will be the same for as long as you get bored of it lol.

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

My laptop gets the fun experiments, my desktop plays the games

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Same except in reverse lol. My laptop is out of date fedora because I'm lazy to update since it's a youtube/twitch machine pretty much. My desktop gets the bleeding edge + games.

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

I'm testing stuff on my old ThinkPad!

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I may have lost my sound card drivers, but at least I've not got to put up with windows (don't worry I've got an external soundcard)!

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[–] macattack@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I'm team Linux as well

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[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I, really really want to switch to Linux. I duel boot and use Linux for study. but there are some apps I just can't get around, and have to switch back to Windows for. I ran some cool scripts that stripped Windows of bloat and uninstalled edge and ads, and I have to say. it's almost as nice as Linux now. runs faster too.

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Honestly what finally pushed me was when windows suddenly decided that going to sleep and keeping on sleeping was too much to ask for. Haven't found anything that doesn't work on Linux yet, but I mostly play games.

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[–] 0ddysseus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Its a bit of drama but if you have a look at setting up qemu with virtual machine manager its worthwhile.

It makes virtual machines that directly utilize the hardware, meaning you can run your stripped out windows inside a window on your Linux desktop.

Its pretty hard to get your GPU to pass through but if its non-gpu oriented apps you need its perfect. My fixed windows VM boots in about 10 seconds, has next to zero network usage, uses 2 cpus and 4gb of ram, and just runs its couple of little apps no trouble every day

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[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I'll check this out ty

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[–] DigitalBits@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

You need 2 GPUs (essentially) for GPU passthrough to work correctly. I gave it a go once and it never worked correctly. Absolutely right for non GPU apps though, or with some VM's, older games.

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[–] KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Same, but I switched back today. DaVinci Resolve doesn't support AAC audio on Linux, even on the paid version (literally everything uses AAC audio). The closest thing to any kind of usable photo editor is photopea, and that's web only.

Linux is just unusable for media creation, unfortunately.

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[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago

Unless your media is made in Blender, then it's pretty good. Inkscape has been getting nicer, too.

But that's about it, yeah.