I also installed Bazzite and am missing several things (or at least have to do more research than I’d like to figure them out). Getting my peripherals working, CAD, system backups, pdfs that won’t open from my file server, etc. The more I get into it the more problems I uncover. It has not been the seamless transition that so many make it out to be. It has worked for the games I’ve tried though.
Installed Bazzite yesterday. Not missing a single thing from windows at the moment.
Go ahead. It’s time.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Depends on your personal needs, especially as it pertains to software and peripherals but yeah, absolutely, try a LiveUSB, and make sure it works with yours.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I too did an install on an old laptop just to check it out. It does throw an overwhelming number of options at you on first start.
Damage@feddit.it 10 hours ago
I’m missing SOLIDWORKS after converting my last Windows PC to Linux
muhyb@programming.dev 10 hours ago
Don’t know about your workflow but have you tried FreeCAD? It surely won’t be like Solidworks, but might work for you.
Damage@feddit.it 7 hours ago
I’ve been… Struggling with FreeCAD for a while. I really want to support it, you know, open source and all, but it’s really rough. Something that takes 10 minutes in SOLIDWORKS takes at least one hour in FreeCAD, not accounting for crashes, and complexity increases time exponentially.
Importing and placing .step files is rather difficult, big assemblies tend to degenerate despite careful binding; I try to bind to the origin as much as possible, often sacrificing adaptability, but it still gets messed up after a while.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
I’ve tried FreeCad on several systems and have yet to get it to run well enough to even attempt to use it. It either crashes constantly or just runs like ass.
muhyb@programming.dev 7 hours ago
I see. Well, at least you’ve tried. In this case, you either need a VM or dual boot at worst. It’s getting loosing up but professional programs will continue to be a pain for a while. Usually we get paid software alternatives rather than their Linux versions though. I hope EU can break this and these corporations get big customers who use Linux, so they end up making a Linux version as well. Otherwise we’ll need another good alternative to pop up or FOSS projects getting big donations like Godot had.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 5 hours ago
Have you tried it since 1.0? It’s pretty ok.
What keeps me from making the switch is music-making. None of my plugins run on Linux and sound drivers supposedly are a huge mess.