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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I have only one computer left running Windows and it’s getting the axe this month. While I’ve used Linux for many years as my primary OS, there are unfortunately some things that just don’t work well under Linux still.

I’m a sucker for bleeding edge graphics and I have a feeling this is where it will affect me the most. I’ve not had luck in the past with the most fancy features working, so it’ll probably be a bit of a learning curve to get used to no longer having that access.

All that being said, every other part of the experience will be an improvement, so I’m not that upset about it.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

For people who can spare $100-$200, I recommend buying an old ThinkPad or Dell business class laptop off eBay. Install Windows, update it, and stick it in your closet.

Because yes, sometimes you just need a Windows machine. VMs will cover most one off Windows requirements, but nothing beats a bare metal install.

Obviously this is not a solution for gaming, just the odd piece of Windows only software you need to run, or hardware you need to interface with that doesn't have Linux drivers.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah I got a t480s and I love it. I got Linux and Windows dual booting on it. It's a solid feeling laptop with the best laptop keyboard I've used. If willing to splurge more could get a newer ThinkPad with a Ryzen CPU, but t480s is enough for me.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

50 dollar Thinkpad is in my closet to use razer drivers so I can edit the onboard memory of my mice once in a blue moon.

Since editing anything beyond the side buttons on Linux is literally impossible.

Finding a mouse with mouse wheel tilt, three side buttons and two extra top buttons that's also fully mappable AND not some piece of actual fucking shit super light mouse is more or less impossible.

Fuck this trend of light ass mice.

[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Meh. Any word processor or spreadsheet works for me, as long as I don't get pestered.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?

[–] MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Oh no!

Anyway...

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

I don't have any of this shit installed, could copilot already be on my windows 11?

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

Thank God I'm out of there.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Jesus Fucking Christ. Why would anyone who wants to write a simple letter or some other basic stuff in Word (which is what most of home users do) want any of this crap?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Happy card making!.... What do you guys use word for at home other than training Microsoft's AI?

testing my printer when something prints funny

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

I use it for making materials for special education usages. Word processor almost never.

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

They are really going balls to the wall with this AI crap, huh?

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Okay okay linux this and that but what am I supposed to do for phone security and browsing (unrelated to microsoft). Please help me, nerds 🙏

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You can use a degoogled phone. Poxel phones can ise graphene os. Other but not all phones can use lineage os. And murena makes a phone that can use their e os

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[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's enough for me to quit my last two dual boot rigs. Guess I'll have to figure out how to get over binging 12 fitgirl release.quickly only to realize they all sucked anyway

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

I'd wait for sales of your games instead. I tried one fitgirl release on EndeavourOS I had from my Windows days (which ran perfectly on there) recently. Tried with Bottles and Lutris and the latter worked eventually but the performance was subpar and it was quite a hassle to get it to run as I had to try many proton versions with a lot of restarts and black screens. Steam and Heroic games run fine though.

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