Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap

• Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If only it ran the software and hardware I use…

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Curious what you’re using. Ms office kinda sucked but LibreOffice works incredibly well, and Adobe products last I tried (years ago) sucked. But gimp and DaVinci resolve work great. Most of my games run absolutely fine. For everything else you just need a web browser and those have worked great always.

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    • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah office products and vide editors have Linux alternatives, but to me the main offenders are Native Instruments Maschine (proprietary USB controller that doesn’t work in Linux + software that doesn’t work in Linux) and DTP software like Affinity Publisher or Adobe Indesign that have no Linux equivalent.

      I’m lookin into running those things in a Windows KVM in Linux though but it’s quite the project.

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      • cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ya that’s a tough one :(

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  • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wine or emulation? When I had to use Windows for work I used WSL to run my tooling and didn’t notice any performance degradation. Does it apply too vice versa?

    Although I’m with you on the hardware side. Because I have an Nvidia card my Linux install has been relegated for personal projects only. I already have a workstation supplied by my employer for work.

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    • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sadly the things I need don’t work in Wine, Proton etc. I’m looking into running a Windows KVM with hardware pass through, but it’s quite the project, and requires a second GPU that I don’t have.

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