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Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 15 hours agoI 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).
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.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Try steam/proton instead of Wine
www.protondb.com/app/24780
ProtonDB says it runs well, but idk if that includes mods.
Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 8 hours 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).
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours 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.
Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 8 hours ago
I live in Excel and PowerPoint, for games messing around with mods/config is fine, for work I cannot deal with random edge cases. PowerBI is Microsoft’s visualization platform, I am actually not a big fan of it (for the area where I work, I could see it being fine in other cases), but this is not something that’s going to change quickly.
There is indeed a version of Teams for Linux. I really need to get a new laptop and try dual boot, I am behind the times on desktop.
Good to know, I only buy 17” inch laptops (thinking of going 18”, but the selection is a lot worse), so I might even be able to get one with dual SSDs.