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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Use the map editor for C&C Generals

Oh look, another command & conquer comment from me. How surprising.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

upgrade my jabra headset firmware

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Windows saves me prescious time to do other things. I went through the Dos, Win 3.1, Windows XP era thoroughly enjoying my time spending hours and hours learning about how to get my new sound card, network card , printer, game , software, mouse, newfangled USB device or whatever working, then my priorities evolved and the time pressures of family and career mean I just want my PC to work and for my use case it does. I'm heading for retirement soon so maybe I'll have more time to give Linux a go

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (8 children)

The secured Sandbox maybe? The windows sandbox is pretty awesome for day to day use imo. And no a template VM or container isnt really the same thing. The sandbox has the task of making sure that there is nothing that can break out. Afaik the sanbox has done a pretty good job so far in that aspect. Does linux bring a comparable option to the table? Would love to find out, changig as many aspects of my life to linux is the best thing to do.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Literally the only thing keeping me from switching:

Act as a host in Parsec. If hosting ever becomes available for the Linux release, I'll switch.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Commerical and enterprise software client side.

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[โ€“] Grass 8 points 10 months ago

Full screen "please wait while we get your system ready for you" narrated by Cortana, and if you disable Cortana you still have to wait the amount of time it takes for the audio to complete. Like an invoiced video game narrator with unskippable lines.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

ITT: Many legitimate use-cases, and people shitting all over them.

This highlights one thing that Windows undoubtedly does better, and that's community support. With Windows and OSX things tend to just work, or to have limitations that people just accept. Linux becomes a lifestyle, when some people just want a tool that does a thing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Running the desktop version of turbo tax. I will try again with wine or some other things. I did toy with the though of a vm on Linux that's running windows ten, but not sure.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Flash a code plug to one of my Motorola radios.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Multiple screen RDP support. It is the only thing keeping me on Windows for my personal desktop. I RDP into my work laptop from my desktop so I can have all 4 of my monitors, but keep my systems separate.

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