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• Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I need Office/PowerBi/Teams to work without issue. The web versions do not cut it for my use cases.

  Some older games that I still play regularly (Simcity 4 with heavy modding) also have problems when running Wine.

  That being said, I will probably try dual booting when I get a new laptop, I am done with US platforms (this covers Android too).

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Try steam/proton instead of Wine

    www.protondb.com/app/24780

    ProtonDB says it runs well, but idk if that includes mods.

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    • Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am planning to do some experiments once I get a new laptop (which I will dual boot). I think gaming support has increased massively since I last tried it 5+ years ago (my usage of linux is via DIY SBC home server).

      Office/PowerBI/Teams and some other business applications (where the web version does not cut it) is the real dealbreaker.

      That being said, I am not moving to Windows11, so I have three year to prepare to move to Linux (and I suspect Win10 will be supported even after that).

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It has definitely improved in your absence.

        But yeah I understand needing your programs to work. For some like Office you may be able to get away with a replacement like OpenOffice or LibreOffice, maybe not. Idk what PowerBi is but it sounds like a c/196 user’s uname lol, and from a cursory search it looks like Teams is supported with a .deb and a .rpm but I can’t attest personally.

        I’d also recommend using a laptop with two SSDs if possible, one for linux and one for windows, to alleviate some of the headaches in dual booting.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, mods on proton get weird sometimes, especially if they require things like Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable packages/runtimes. I think ProtonTricks allows you to install those directly in the prefix, but I haven’t personally had success with that.

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  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I need Office/PowerBi/Teams to work without issue. The web versions do not cut it for my use cases.

    Same problem. I actually use Mint on my laptop but the desktop still has Windows 10 because some apps are still just not useable or fully useable on Linux. As much as I wish Libre Office was a full replacement for MS Office, it’s not. At least not for power users.

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