Just dual boot…
Where Linux?
Precisely.
This is a negative space meme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_space
Different tools (or even preferences) for different people, you know…
I dream of a world where I don’t have to dual boot.
Due to planned virtualisation in Windows this will probably soon be the case for people who Dual boot due to anticheat.
Due to planned virtualisation in Windows
I must have missed something. What are you referencing with this comment?
They want to prevent spooky programs running in the kernel (like crowdstrike) which may break the whole system. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206719/microsoft-windows-changes-crowdstrike-kernel-driver
Out of curiosity what do you dual boot for? I used to dual boot for gaming but I’ve lately found that proton works very well with my games and there is no need to run Windows for anything
Yeah proton works really well for me for the vast majority of my games but there are a few that don’t. I dual boot solely to play those.
- Star Citizen - much worse performance for me using Linux.
- Cyberpunk - Used to work fine but started crashing on Linux for me
- Counter Strike 2 - Audio cuts out after about 15 - 20 minutes on Linux.
- Supreme Commander - Frequent crashes on Linux.
I think people can run most of those fine but I haven’t had luck and don’t spend much time tinkering.
There are plenty of games that runs on linux just fine
https://libregaming.org/play-libre-games/
The games you mentioned don’t seem to have anything so special that they are worth trading for your privacy and freedom over.
First person to come up with a time machine, can you make your first trip back to the early 80s and buy 86-DOS and open source it before Bill gets his grubby hands on it?
Plot twist, you have to partner with Richard Stallman for the first open source licensing to get off the ground and end up with GNU plus BSD and its all powershell commands.
Adobe, OK. SolidWorks? Nah. NX is a higher-end CAD solution (costs more though) and runs on RHEL or SUSE
Yay! SolidWorks was literally the last thing keeping me on Windows
Edit: Um, why does the Siemens website say it only supports the license server since 2020?
I miss NX. My company uses SolidWorks, and it’s…okay, I guess? But I’m aggravated on a weekly basis because it doesn’t do something that NX could. But cost is the issue. I think you can get like 5 SW licenses for the cost of a single NX one.
