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For years... well pretty much since I had a PC, I had a Windows partition. Why? Well because I (sadly) paid for the damn thing (damn OEM deals). Plus, I admit, sometimes they were things that only ran on Windows.
For few years now though, everything, literally, from the latest tech gadget to playing games to VR, works on Linux.
Few weeks ago I deleted the Windows partition. I didn't have to. I didn't boot on it for months. It didn't affect me.
Still, I now feel ... safer, more relaxed, coherent.
When I see shit like that, I feel even better!
Yea about a year ago I switched entirely over to Linux. I am a system engineer so I have to deal with windows at work all the time but on my computer, I feel calm. Like I don't have to worry about my operating system. Windows is getting in the way more than it's helping 99% of the time now.
Sadly Windows is still required for a lot of cad softwares.
vMs work well too though.
VM is still windows tho, just one layer deeper.
With less control of your machine and you can compartmentalize your use case instead of using dual boot. Especially if you're only using it for one program
Put it in a shame box (VM). This is how I run my specialty software.
BricsCAD has a native Linux client
I havent found anything I can't do with freecad and blender.
Freecad is OK but it wouldn't even be considered in a commercial setting like I'm working in. I work with Catia, Solidworks and Polyworks. None on those run on Linux.
VR works on Linux? Thru Steamvr?
Yes, I even play VR Windows games on Linux., the latest one released just weeks ago being Subside.
I'm using a Valve Index but with ALVR even standalone HMDs, e.g. (sadly from Meta) the cheap Quests line. You can find a lot more details on https://lvra.gitlab.io
Thank you!
Depends on the headset, they don't all work on Linux unfortunately.
It was mostly working 2 years ago when I tried it last. I just had some weird frame dropping issues at the time that I can only imagine were fixed by now. This post is making me want to try VR again on my linux install
SteamVR and ALVR are the only ones that I've gotten to work, no dice on standalone DCS though which was the whole reason I bought the damn headset a couple years ago
I tried running the standalone, ran some script from Lutris but ended up with a broken wine config. Hopefully we can at least get that working without VR at some point.
It's the chicken and the egg problem, and most companies choose to be the chicken
That's my situation, except I haven't deleted my partition yet, mostly because it sits on a separate physical disk. Maybe one day…
I have windows on another physical disk and I plan to delete my windows partition in 2025 and start a software raid 0 configuration, sadly linux is not yet ready.
Even Windows exes work on Linux now. It took me some time and learning but I got Wine to work with some program from my walkie talkie's manufacturer and it involves serial programming over USB.
Indeed but I very rarely, if ever need it except for some games. Usually there are FLOSS equivalent of most software. They are sometimes worst but often just as good and, obviously, they can be modified. So Wine and Proton are amazing but hopefully needed less and less.