As an architect, let me know once Linux supports autodesk products and adobe products. Until then I gotta stick with windows.
I have the strong urge to point out it’s the other way around; Adobe and Autodesk have to support Linux. You’re of course right though, with the strong lock-in effect from those big companies it’s almost impossible to switch unless done on company-level. And even then project partners will expect files to be in a specific (proprietary) format most of the time.
It was really disheartening to see Ondsel ES fail, it was a valiant attempt at creating a business-grade Open-Source CAD solution based on FreeCAD. Unfortunately Autodesk’s monopoly extinguished any attempt at finding funding, despite existing interest by those who actually use that stuff (I assume Autodesk is fucking expensive like any monopoly software…). Education, Production, Distribution… those few big companies own and control literally every part. It would probably take both governmental effort as well as some kind of soft UI-standardisation to crack these power structures.
Autodesk I understand but the adobe suite sucks major donkey balls anyway
Unfairly, It doesn’t matter if they suck or not, they have a monopoly. They are the industry standard and in many ways our hands are tied.
It’s TruckersMP for me because it’s built on .NET libraries and I can’t get truckersmp-cli to load my DLCs for whatever reason :|
shitty anticheat protected games where the dev has specifically chose to block linux?
Linux is a reason to ditch those games
apex legends ditchers represent.
Literally just steam VR in home streaming is all I need to fully dump windows.
WiVRn / ALVR?
Lmao stealing this
Indeed it is brother… indeed it is.
hdr and mod organiser 2
HDR works fine with Plasma (KDE). Regarding MO2, do you think the Nexus Mods app could eventually replace it? They work on a native client that already supports a few games.
I’ve no clue I’m hoping on nma but it still only supports 2 games after all this time and both nmm and vortex were absolutely god awful if vortex worked it’d be fine as that works on Linux apparently but mo2 has a third party wine installer script that kinda works but fomod installers don’t work so it doesn’t really work it’s kinda useless but yeah I’ll just have to wait and see on nma
Unfortunately, my vr headset requires a piece of middleware that is not Linux compatible. But, by the time 10 LTSC reaches end of life, Deckard should be available for purchase.
Also, I’ll need to re-pirate substance painter for avatar work, as GenP doesn’t do Linux either.
What headset? Most headsets work fine now. I had some issues with an old WMR headset (HP Reverb G2), but even Windows doesn’t support WMR anymore so it’s basically dead. Went with a Quest 3 eventually and it works great with WiVRn (ALVR works as well, but it’s a bit more clunky).
Pimax. Fantastic FOV, but wide and clunky, and the rest is just meh.
I’m going to give you the secret to switching. Go all AMD for your build, and leave everything you know about Windows software and how it works at the door. Learn to use Linux. Expecting it and Linux software to work like Windows is the pitfall.
When you’re Canadian, European or basically not a US citizen, that alone should be enough reason not to use windows…don’t give your money to greedy corporate overlords of a dictatorship
So, a few years back, when a good friend of mine tried out Linux mint, one of the main reasons he didn’t stick with it wasn’t even compatibility or anything (although he probably would have switched to a rolling release as someone who values cutting edge updates). But what ultimately made him return to Windows was something, I have been scratching my head on how to best handle it: The file system structure ultimately being too much of a change.
Now, of course, if you are used to it, I wouldn’t really call it better or worse - definitely more suited to what Linux ultimately is. But stuff like, “Where are the save games of my paradox games? Why is so much stuff in my user directory? Why is there no unified directoy for all the stuff I installed (including everything they use), like Program Files, but everything is scattered all around into different directories? Why was the path to my save games hidden in a dotfile-folder?” were examples of hurdles, where the current answer seems to be “you just have to get used to it”.
Now, I am not pleading to change the standard, there’s good reasons for it. But are there good transitioning guides from Windows to Linux, that do a good job at explaining the structure of the file system? Because I remember, myself, only really getting used to it months into my Linux journey all those years ago.
Ehm, your friend should really hold ma beer.
Windows: ok, where files of program N? Let’s check: C:/Program files? Or Program files (x86)? Why do I happen to see same program in both?
Ah, Documents/N? Maybe. But empty
C:/AppData/(or whatever that is called)…fucking_hell? With fucking invisible folders? Really?
As to the actual question, I remember just googling the standard, got some idea back then. Now found https://linuxhandbook.com/linux-directory-structure/ should be good enough (I guess, being used to reading software docs does change views on what is good/bad and also builds tolerance to detailed descriptions)
Video games.
video games work pretty well in general
Msm flash tool, I need windows for this
Msm flash tool
If that’s all you need. I bet you could just run it from WINE. I updated my PS5 controller using the PlayStation flash tool or whatever it’s called. I used Bottles to do all the WINE stuff. Just installed the flash tool and it worked like it was Windows. Pretty shocked if I’m being honest.
I’ve to do usb passthrough to use msm tool, but I’ll try since you said it worked for u.
With WINE you wouldn’t need USB pass-through. Only if you are passing the hardware into a Virtual Machine. The pass-through just tells the Host system not handle the device. But you actually want the HOST system to handle the device. WINE is just translation, not virtualization. (or Emulation, haha)
P.S. USB pass-through does work really well in VM’s. If WINE doesn’t work for you. You could always keep around a Windows VM for the occasion you need the msm flash tool.
Bruh I tried that now my phones isn’t turning on anymore fuck
You have a OnePlus device? You can go to EDL mode to unbrick.
Yeah I know I was in edl mode and device wasn’t getting recognized even after installing all the drivers, but my phone wasn’t responding so I’ve to force shut it off.
For me it’s Nvidia tech, VR, and HDR, even if they’re technically supported, they’re much more of a hassle than on Windows.
Funnily enough, I’ve seen opinions that Windows has awful HDR handling and Plasma is much better, but I don’t have a proper HDR display to check. I’ve also had some success with VR, though I haven’t played much on Linux. That said, support from software for those things for Linux is still widely lacking, so it’s not much consolation.
The thing with Windows is that it’s very much set and forget with HDR. I don’t bother with auto HDR since it isn’t great, but I just enable HDR, and have RTX HDR handle non-HDR games. I don’t really need to touch anything else or launch games in a specific way to get it working. I’ve tried VR with Linux but I’ve been spoiled by the accessibility of VD.
On most recent Plasma (KDE) I can confirm HDR also just works (tested on AMD). I do miss a contrast slider though, SDR titles seem a little bit bright.
Of course Nvidia didn’t port “RTX HDR” yet. They’re preoccupied fixing their driver mess by building a completely new one (NVK), so for the foreseeable future it’s still better to run AMD with Linux.
I side-loaded Mint for a couple hours just to goof around, and then . . . never booted Windows again, quite literally forgot it was installed three days later
Sounds just like my last dual boot setup, as well.
I believe I said “I’ll just boot back to Windows next time I want to play…this game…that just launched and played perfectly under Proton…or…this other game…which also works…huh…”
Fusion 360 for me. Freecads incredibly user unfriendly, openscad is missing functionality and performance, and blender isn’t great for engineering modeling
There are dozens of us. Surely someone can figure out how to port F360 to Linux, or make a functional clone
id bet it works on wine
