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• kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I switched to Linux years ago, and have never looked back. Every computer in my house except one (my mandatory work laptop) runs some flavor of Linux, and my kids have never been forced to use Windows at all. And if I have my way, they never will.

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  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the spirit

    Get to used to FOSS now so that they never have to switch to it later

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did that about a year ago. It’s a giant pain in my ass but not bigger than MS’s incessant begging or not being in control of my own computer.

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  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pretty much the only thing holding me back right now is Fusion 360 (really good CAD modelling software)

    As soon as I can find a good alternative that does what I need it to do I can jump ship pretty painlessly

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    • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you paying for a seat to use Fusion or just the freebie hobby licence? You can switch over to OnShape if you want something commercial. It’s totally OS agnostic because it runs in a browser window. Otherwise you can don the sackcloth and ashes and switch to FreeCAD like I did, (it’s not as hard to learn as it gets made out to be), and be free of controlling corporations.

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      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        OnShape is something I think of as really cool but their terms for using it for free are a bit meh IMO

        Now if I could selfhost something like OnShape that would be ideal but it doesn’t look like anyone is working on something like that (and my coding skills are non-existent in the the face of such a challenge of making one)

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    • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ever considered running Windows in a VM, with hardware pass through if needed for performance?

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have a dual boot. There are plenty of Linux or browser-based alternatives. Or you can run it through Bottles or even Steam (Proton works for all exe’s, not just games).

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• Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Exactly the same boat, except I’m aiming for OpenSUSE. Yast, BTRFS with snapshots out of the box etc.

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bruh just do it. It will take you maybe the weekend. No reason to spend the next few years thinking about it.

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