Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11
leriotdelac@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoI’d go for Lunix, if the software I need for work would I run on it. Thinking about keeping Win 10 on a separate disk, since my laptop is not eligible for Win 11.
rozodru@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
not trying to be one of those guys but trying to be helpful. What software for work do you need that won't work on a linux distro?
I mean wine/winetricks is pretty much to the point now where you can simply download an .exe or whatever, double click it, and it'll launch. I do this for several Windows only programs I have and they all work. And the thing with the Linux community is that there's always SOMEONE that will insist on getting the most obscure drivers working on it. I once had this dongle from like the early 2000s that would allow you to plug PSX and PS2 memory cards into it. I thought "yeah I'd like to use this again, no way it'll work on linux" and sure enough someone had actually made the drivers for it. I think it's only me and the guy who made the driver that actually use the thing.
leriotdelac@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Thank you for the reply. I need to run Rhino 8, and apparently it doesn’t reliably work through wine. It’s my main software I use professionally, and moving to something like Blender is unfortunately not an option.
rozodru@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
would this work? https://github.com/cryinkfly/Rhinoceros-3D-for-Linux
leriotdelac@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thanks a lot! I looked into it, and it seems it doesn’t run the last version, but works fine with the old ones. I’ll look more into it!