Just dual boot…

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Man, we as a community really ought to put more effort and resources helping out FreeCAD.

    • mvirts@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      For me it’s all about learning freecad so I can look down upon the cloud cad peasants 😹

      For real though I completely agree. Freecad is just a plugin away from having a more accessible UI.

      • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        5 months ago

        the ui is actually pretty good when you get used to it imo, it’s just that it’s very busy and intimidating for beginners

        I think there should just be a simple builtin tutorial that beginners can access, that guides them through making a cylinder or something to assure them that freecad isn’t as intimidating as it looks

        • mvirts@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          That’s a good idea, and I think that teaching yourself parametric CAD for the first time in freecad is extra difficult because it is easy to do things that look like they may work but actually break you model (especially dragging stuff around in the hierarchy).

  • mergingapples@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    Alright, as much as I want to give Microsoft the double birds and leave, way too many modding programs are .exe based.

    And I just cannot yet be fucked to learn how to do per-app emulation. It scares me, things just sort of work here, and I can give them one and a half birds by removing almost all their telemetry garbage.

    That being said I do really like the idea of Linux, I just want a little bit more idiot friendliness out of it

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
    2·
    5 months ago

    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?

    • EherNicht@feddit.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Due to planned virtualisation in Windows this will probably soon be the case for people who Dual boot due to anticheat.

      • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
        2·
        5 months ago

        Due to planned virtualisation in Windows

        I must have missed something. What are you referencing with this comment?

            • EherNicht@feddit.orgEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              It seems quite likely actually. The only problem might be them noticing the benefit for GNU/Linux.

          • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
            1·
            5 months ago

            Perhaps I’m being dense but how do you see this helping Linux Gaming?

            Even assuming that VBS-E allows Game Devs to shift their current kernel based anti-cheat over to it there’s no guarantee that Linux will get a compatible VBS-E module nor that Game Devs would allow its use.

            I guess I see it as: If a Game Dev does this (use VBS-E) AND Linux gets a compatible module AND Game Devs allow its use THEN newer games may not have the same problem with anti-cheat as older ones.

            • EherNicht@feddit.orgEnglish
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              5 months ago

              The way I understand it is that every anticheat needs to be overhauled as they can no longer tap into the kernel/get kernel access. So the anticheat has to run in userspace. This can also be done under GNU/Linux which is why anticheat should work on both platforms.

              • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
                1·
                5 months ago

                The way I understand it is that every anticheat needs to be overhauled as they can no longer tap into the kernel/get kernel access.

                Yes, if we assume that various institutions (cough cough looking at you EU) allow MS to remove kernel access.

                So the anticheat has to eun in userspace.

                VSB-E isn’t really “user space” but your point about the kernel is valid.

                hich is why anticheat should

                The word “should” is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence. Even if it COULD that doesn’t mean devs will allow it nor does it mean that existing games will get updated on EITHER platform. Removing a kernel level anti-cheat could easily be the death of some older games on Windows as the owner simply doesn’t want to put the money into making it work.

                I’m honestly not too sure how possible it is to make VSB-E work on *nix either, since it appears to use Microsoft Hyper-V technologies at its core and those wouldn’t be available in *nix. That means that we’d be back to Game Devs having to specifically write anti-cheat for *nix…which is something they can already do if they want.

                VSB-E is interesting but I’m not convinced its going to do anything for Linux Gaming at all. Hopefully I am wrong. :)

    • communism@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      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

      • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        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.

          • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            5 months ago

            How dramatic.

            EDIT: In the dramatic spirit though.

            It’s too late for me, friend. The trap was baited with the frivolous and delightful outputs of an unethical capitalist machine and I was ensnared. I am now doomed to forever carry out a small percentage of my computing tasks in the glass cage of OS lock in and corporate surveillance. It’s not too late for others, though, you can still save yourself. Leave me to my fate, my only solace is that my experience may be a lesson to others.

            • index@sh.itjust.works
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              5 months ago

              Na it’s not to late, just try different games and experience new OS. After a while your thirst for playing specific games simply goes away and you will feel as much comfortable playing games on linux.

  • Uli@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    5 months ago

    Just built my first fully dedicated Linux machine. Still keeping my old Windows desktop around purely because I play League of Legends and they use a kernel level anticheat, so it won’t run on VM.

    Fun fact, ever since Riot made it mandatory to install their rootkit if you want to play their games, every time I try to eject a flash drive, it says it can’t eject because it’s in use - even if I just plugged it in. And that’s super comforting.

    • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      5 months ago

      It’s not like Riot Games is fully owned by Tencent or anything…

      But if you still want to play the game, having a computer that you only use for league, with nothing else installed, is the best way to go about it

        • yamanii@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 months ago

          Fair, addictive entertainment, Vanguard was the only anticheat that was able to ban people using dedicated hacking cards on their PCIe slot. I know it’s scary to have something like that on kernel level, but we only reached this place because cheaters are fine letting random hackers run kernel level cheats on their devices just to win.

  • Crikeste@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    What the fuck is all this anti-Windows 11 talk? I have never had a problem with it. Is it because of functionality or something else? Because, functionality wise, it’s been fine for me. 🤷🏼‍♂️

    Oh shit I didn’t realize this was in Linux. Welp o7 I go down with my ship lmao

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      I’m just guessing, I’m still using Windows (though I would have made the swap literally decades ago if the games I like in particular ran on Linux just as fine): it’s not about functionality; Windows was designed to be a great tool to do your business.

      It’s everything else that you pay in return, the price being the least of the problems. Forced ads, forced software, insane amount of “telemetry” (half of which is just data collection for their own gains), to name a few. Year by year it’s getting harder, more complicated and more tedious (and less and less doable) to remove all the forced ads, reverse all the forced program defaults and automatic bloat. If you have to look it up on the Internet how you need to edit the registry to be able to stop certain processes/services that annoy you, then it means they don’t want you to stop the annoyance. A few patches later you can’t even do it. Dishonest stuff like that.

      If you’re fine with everything that Win11 means, including stuff that drives others up the wall, then Win11 is for you and there’s nothing wrong with that.

      As much as others here love to shit on certain games (like League of Legends or Valorant), I still find them fun to play and I wouldn’t want to say goodbye to them just because otherwise I’d prefer Linux. There’s a reason they aren’t supported on various OS’s at the same time (developing anti cheat on multiple systems is just super labour intensive, and opens up way too many loopholes/exploits/bugs for cheat developers), and it pretty much applies to ANY multiplayer game. If I only played single player games I would switch in an instant.

      • Crikeste@lemm.ee
        1·
        5 months ago

        I was genuinely like, “oh no no no no” when I noticed. But oh well, it’s kinda funny to me.

    • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
      1·
      5 months ago

      I really dislike the locking of the taskbar to the bottom, having to click twice to see all my right click options, having to dig through multiple layers of menus to find a setting, not a fan of copilot being pushed in the OS (though I did totally use cortana back in the day, had some somewhat nice assistant features like traffic monitoring to recommend when I left for work), generally not a fan of for lack of better term “streamlining”, it’s mostly minor annoyances and the like but they add up.

      I do really like Auto HDR, winget being there ootb (I think? Was amazing when I migrated work computers), windows terminal is straight up fantastic. It’s still definitely useable, it’s just only on my work machines (no choice, but I live in the terminal, text editors and browser for almost everything so OS doesn’t really matter much to me) and my desktop, run linux on everything else.

  • wick@lemm.ee
    1·
    4 months ago

    I’ve just spent the last 6 hours troubleshooting steam input on 3rd party flatpaks, also alacarte has a bug that doesn’t let you save property changes, also I can’t use vim as root anymore for some reason I don’t care to look into, also symlinking some of my media was a pain. Band-aid solutions have been found for the first 3 and the last was me being an idiot and not having a GUI solution to symlinks because Nautilus is arse compared to ms file explorer.

    I fucking hate pop-os and flatpaks, cosmic launcher is a pile of junk, and my 4k monitor has created an infinite amount of scaling issues to work through.

    Windows was a slow burn of minor inconvenience, Linux is a series of kicks in the nuts.

  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    I don’t use it (haven’t used Windows in decades), but I kept a small partition with Windows 11 on it which I boot from time to time as I enjoy watching what it’s becoming.

    It’s like watching a slow motion industrial accident. Horrifying fascination.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 months ago

    their ecosystem of apps is buggy as fuck.

    teams and outlook always gives me headaches.

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
      1·
      5 months ago

      Ugh, outlook has been dropping support for email standards for a while now, it’s getting close to a proprietary standard now.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    Some people these days are actually looking to give up Adobe. You know it has to be bad for them to want to make massive changes to there workflow. I think it has to do with Adobe using your data for AI.

  • Shanedino@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    On a more serious note as a windows user it just does a good enough job that I don’t want to put in any effort for something better.

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 months ago

    I had to work with a win 11 system today. I needed to fast move through a lot of pictures with the m$ image viewer, every time I delete a picture it does a fucking slow animation which just steals my time.

    Okay, I went to the win-settings and removed animations. Photo-app still does animations…

    FU M$.

  • patrlim@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    It was VR and davinci

    Then I found out arch runs davinci flawlessly.

    Now I have arch Linux and “VR mode” (windows)