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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

    Fusion 360

    Cubase

    [–] shadowedcross 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] shadowedcross 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Fan control. MSI after burner. Nvidia drivers.

    Windows 10 gaming desktop

    Mint laptop

    [–] ShankShill 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Fancontrol-gui, corectl, yeah nvidia drivers still suck but are improving.

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Literally just steam VR in home streaming is all I need to fully dump windows.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Fusion 360 for me. Freecads incredibly user unfriendly, openscad is missing functionality and performance, and blender isn't great for engineering modeling

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

    I did it as long as gaming kept me there. Now I can play pretty much anything on my Linux machine. Forza fucked up. But whatever. It's a not a game to die for.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

    Sometimes it is easier

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    A few months ago I installed windows on a spare SSD. It's only purpose was for modded Skyrim.

    A few weeks ago I accidentally formated that drive. It was only mildly annoying. Then I remembered I was basically done with that playthrough anyways. The SSD still remains unformated XD

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

    Tax perp software was the only thing I needed it for in the last year. I haven't converted my gaming PC to Linux yet, but I don't anticipate an issue.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

    I keep a windows LTSC install around purely for Escape from Tarkov. Everything else I play works great on Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I need to connect to my work machine with RDP and I tried using Remmina. Sometimes it works fine, but sometimes the special key stop working( ctrls + s will type s instead of saving) Also there are visual glitches on a second monitor. I had to switch back to windows.

    Can anyone recommend a different RDP client?

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    [–] snugglesthefalse 1 points 3 days ago

    My only real reason is the amount of stuff I'd have to move over

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    I have one reason that I fire up a Windows VM once a quarter. I do the financial reporting for the local branch of a volunteer run non-profit. All of the reporting is done through an Excel sheet that is over 20 years old which is heavily macroized with VB Script. It doesn't run in LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Apple Numbers, Google Sheets, or even online in MS Office 365(!). It only runs on a locally installed copy of Excel running on a machine with a printer installed. We're working on moving to something better, but the people at the higher levels are incredibly resistant to change.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

    Yeah...., gamepass πŸ₯² the only thing that holds me there at the moment.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Msm flash tool, I need windows for this

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    I have to keep a spare bootable drive laying around for these muppet companies who only have firmware update mechanisms on windows, my monitor and thunderbolt dock being two that come to mind.

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