Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

• Bruhman482@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Would you mind sharing a couple of the names of the programs that only work on Windows for you? I’m a bit curious.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m not Tyler Bourbon, but it’s Fusion 360 for me. I sound like a broken record at this point, but it’s the only piece of software that keeps a windows install in my house

    Hey Autodesk you should put F360 on Linux

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  • pancakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m not the OP but I have a similar situation. I work in multimedia design and use a wide array of software from the full Adobe suite, to in-house command line apps, to the Articulate suite and everything in between.

    I’d love to be on Linux but that just isn’t a possibility for me.

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    • the_q@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m a professional graphic designer that dumped Adobe years back and I’ve been able to keep working using open source design applications.

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      • Carrot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I mean, sure you can do this, but you have to also sympathize with the folks that have years if not decades of experience in a program/suite, and that experience is what they use to market themselves. Like, in a perfect world, everyone could make the switch to FOSS alternatives, but it’s not so cut and dry for those who can’t spend up to years of their personal time to just get back to being as efficient as they were with the other, just to not support a scummy company. I’ve been moving pretty much entirely over to FOSS for everything I do, but it’s been years in the making, and substantial effort on my part. And I have it easy, since I work in software development. We in the FOSS community can’t expect all others to do the same.

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  • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not OP, but for another data point: recently I did quite a bit of Linux-related research on the three Adobe apps I use (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, in this order of prominence), and they are all reported as some level of broken via Wine and their Linux alternatives are missing important features and/or a pain in the arse to use :/

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• SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, any app that needs a GPU would be difficult to work with in a VM. You have to manually set up GPU-passthru, which requires figuring out the PCI addresses and whatnot of your card, along with using a terminal. As I understand it, this process also prevents you from using that GPU outside of the VM, which is cruddy.

  I was hoping to have a Linux Mint + Windows 11 VM back in January, but that didn’t work out. I am hoping that the upcoming SteamOS Desktop would make Linux friendly enough for games that aren’t native to Steam, such as my GOG collection, Window 3.1 stuff like Stars!, and assorted Japanese locale games.

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  • JakobFel@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    SteamOS isn’t going to be the “Windows killer” people think it’ll be. I’m a massive Valve and Steam fan but SteamOS isn’t any better than any of the other major distros when it comes to gaming.

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    • Carrot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I think it’ll feel like pop os. Pretty much set up for gaming right out of the box, but anything deeper and you’re forced to touch the terminal. What I do think it has going for it however is the publicity of Steam, plus a promise on Steam’s part to continue to dump a bunch of resources in to making it a better experience. I’m not expecting mass migrations, but it will likely be what gets all the folks on the fence to switch over, at least among gamers

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      • JakobFel@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Terminal usage is inevitable with Linux. It’s not as scary as it seems and can actually create a sense of accomplishment when you use it. Pop is a solid distro for sure but you don’t need a “gaming distro” to game on Linux these days (not that Pop is a gaming distro specifically). There’s actually a Linux Experiment video where he proves this with a thorough test. All major distros work fine for gaming.

        I encourage people to not go for SteamOS unless you’re setting up a PC you want to use solely as a home console, or if you’re flashing it to a different handheld.

        That, all coming from a big Valve fan. I simply don’t think it’s a good idea for people to get their hopes up over SteamOS somehow being a no-terminal, peak gaming Linux experience. I also don’t think it’s a good idea to hold off until SteamOS gets its full PC release, because most major distros today will work just as well. It’d literally only benefit people to start learning Linux now so that by the full SteamOS launch, they’ll be more informed as to whether it’ll be something they’ll find useful enough to use as a daily driver.

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  • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I am hoping that the upcoming SteamOS Desktop would make Linux friendly enough for games that aren’t native to Steam, such as my GOG collection

    You can just add those to steam or use a launcher like heroic.

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• XM34@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Maybe check out Bottles [1]. It’s similar to Proton/Wine, but for regular Software and it runs pretty damn well.

  [1] github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles

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