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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.

I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?

There’s oculus software for my vr but don’t know what I’m going to do with that

Small update: probably going to do Linux mint as that appears to be the most beginner friendly

Update two: that's a lot of comments, and Thanks for all the info

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Speaker brand, they may be looking for some software for managing it. Probably gonna need to run it in WINe.

https://jblpro.com/products/performance-software

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I highly doubt this will work in WINE. This type of software almost never works in WINE.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’m familiar with the speaker brand, but OP is not clear what they mean. Is there software or do they just want to make sure their BT speaker works with Linux? Or are they using some other abbreviation and we are way off base.

I can guess but better to ask.