Sadly it is not about learning Linux but getting the software you use on a daily basis natively supported by the OS, that is why Linux is still not there for me yet.
What do you use on a daily basis that’s not supported? I see this kind of comment all the time and nobody wants to tell me!
Its almost always tools and programs used in their professional life. The 365 suite, adobe suite, fusion 360, simulation programs, …
Yes i know there are free or alternative options, but they are never as good or powerful as the full on suites that have existed since the dawn of time.
Ive been running linux ( dual boot with windows ) on my work laptop for 9 months at this point and i love it. But sometimes, i do have to boot windows for one of the professional suite programs.
For me the 365 suite (including copilot) all works great inside Firefox on Mint. But I work in software so the other everyday stuff is pretty well available.
I assume some day I’ll need to boot back into windows for something, but it’s already Ben months.
If you have a large work budget, then Siemens NX (version 12 or less) runs on RHEL or SUSE.
Fair, but in the context of gaming I doubt there are that many people gaming on their work machine.
Depends, im a power user that does all kind of things on my pc. Gaming but also other workloads, so ill be dual booting with linux as my main soon anyway.
But for pure gaming, ye linux might do depending on the gamesYeah, I’ve been spoiled because most of the heavier workloads I do is all programming related and Linux tends to be better there.
I have had issues with Autodesk products, but I’m able to get 99% of what I need with freecad.
Microsoft office suite? Adobe, most DAWs. PCVR.
There are alternatives for some of these things. IMO libreoffice is good, but buggy compared to the MS office suite.
Basically “professional software” that isn’t tech related.
There are fantastic alternatives that are (nearly) transparent for individual users.
There are BETTER alternatives for some software.
But working in a team/company that doesn’t prioritise Linux accessibility is painful. And it’s pain that people aren’t paid to deal with to complete their actual workload.
MS has corporate by the balls.Libreoffice rules
It’s the best office suite for Linux, I just think MS office is a better product. Maybe I’m wrong and it would be great if I was more competent with it.
Honestly, I’ve just switched (after 27 years of windows) like two months ago, and I don’t miss any of that old crap. Not once have I thought “damn, wish I could have this software under Linux”, because there was always an alternative.
Arch btw.
onlyoffice? it saldy uses chromium embedded framework tho.
Some people were saying MS Office will still run in the browser though and that’s 90 percent of my use case these days to be honest.
Yeah that’s fair. I’m very into hotkeys and macros to speed up my workflow, so the browser doesn’t do it for me.
I do main Linux (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed), but its not a machine I use for doing serious work.
I can tell you my issues, so far.
Logitech G13 left hand kb - no drivers, Steam VR library 20 some of 90 some games come up in steam, Microsoft intellipoint trackball, only left, right, and wheel work but cannot program the other 2 buttons, no BlueStacks - simple to use phone emulator.
Haven’t gotten any further as if VR library is not available there is no point getting rid of windows, and I really want to get rid of windows. I just don’t have the drive I used to, to fix, look up hints, tinker with my os and reinstall new ones. It has to just work. I have Kubuntu installed on a 4tb sata ssd, rtx 4070ti super, Ryzen 7 3800, 32gb ram. In the last month steam VR made some strides as setting up was as seamless as windows, but as I stated I am missing 2/3 of my VR library
Yeah, my SteamVR library is why I keep a Windows virtual machine around.
I have faith steam will continue to improve proton to the point of “it just works”. As well, any new purchases of hardware will be Linux ready.
I must say Linux HAS gotten more user friendly over the last 20/30 years, and the GUIs have gotten more stable. My first Linux distro was red hat enterprise Linux, and then I hopped around to fedora, then mandrake and mandriva, a buddy suggested slack at one point, then I found Ubuntu, and now Kubuntu, I prefer the gnome environment but kde plasma seems to work better. Wayland is also long over due.
Oof that’s quite the haul. Thanks for the write up though.
I will keep testing and one day I will be joyous. Linux is so close, just a few more years™.
People love to write up laundry lists of why they can’t change. They’re fucking themselves over in the end though.
With only 20 of 90 VR games available I’d say I was already fucked over and I am nowhere near the end… Thank you for the suggestions on how to over come the issues I have so far
Poor hdr support is one for games and shows.
For games at least (haven’t tested for films/shows as I do that on my TV), HDR support is there. I‘m running nobara htpc, which has everything necessary already set up and any game I ran in gamescope so far worked perfectly fine in HDR.
Literally unusable!!!
Okay. I can see that being an issue. I’m fine without HDR but I know people who aren’t.
I use Figma (a UX design tool). It has browser support but I prefer the native app experience, I’ve seen there are Linux versions on GitHub but I heard they have some compatibility or performance issues sometimes and I need it to be 100% reliable as it is for work. I also use some Adobe products sporadically (Illustrator and Photoshop) FOSS software doesn’t make the cut for professional use, even if they do nearly the same, since you need standard industry tools.
I also like gaming and even though Linux is almost there (I love my Steam Deck) I see so many people struggling here and there and I really don’t feel like tinkering, I already tinker enough on Windows to get my games working properly.
But all in all I’m still interested in Linux and keeping an eye on it and might pull the trigger some day even if is only for personal use/tinkering :)
I use Figma (a UX design tool). It has browser support but I prefer the native app experience, I’ve seen there are Linux versions on GitHub but I heard they have some compatibility or performance issues sometimes and I need it to be 100% reliable as it is for work.
Figma has an unofficial Flatpak version available, which is a wrapper for the web version so I can’t speak for how well it works but it might be worth to give it a try on your Steam Deck? Just search for “Figma” in Discover when on desktop mode.
That’s where I am, I’m looking at switching my gaming computer over to fiddle with it, see what’s going on.
Apart from the many compatibility issues with all kinds of random games that can usually be fixed within an hour (but still cost me too much time), the biggest one is specific stuff like playing Assetto Corsa with mods in VR using a Logitech wheel. It’s already a pretty hefty stack of things to keep working on Windows, but on Linux I cannot even get AC to start so I have no idea whether the rest will work.
I’m already fighting computers all day. When I get home tired the last thing I want to do is to fight the computer even more. I just want a game to start without issue. Even on my Steam deck I have regular hard crashes of the system in multiple games, and my PC is probably less supported due to the more random set of packages installed
Yeah, there is a whole load of Steam games that will only play on Windows systems. I’m looking forward to testing the new implementation of WINE and see if it measures up. If so, I may be dumping Windows 10 for a Linux flavor. Though I don’t know if I can get the Windows XBox app to work on WINE. So that’s a consideration.
I switched to Nobara a few weeks ago and gaming isn’t really an issue. I still have to get Cyberpunk running when heavily modded tho. The Xbox Cloud Gaming app is available through an Electron PWA using Lutris: https://lutris.net/games/xbox-cloud-gaming/
On my Windows 11 machine I just uninstalled Copilot via the normal app uninstall process. Unless I’m misunderstanding, I don’t think it’s tied into the OS in any fundamental way. I assume most debloating scripts include the step anyway.
Kinda crap that it’s installed by default though.
I uninstalled copilot after an update installed it, on win 10
Just installed an update to 10 2 days ago to find that it had installed Copilot and put an icon for it on my taskbar. Stuff like this is why 10 will be my last version of Windows.
Can’t wait to see what industries that handle sensitive data will do when Recall becomes an integrated part of Windows 11. They might have no choice but to migrate to Linux.
They will pay for enterprise licenses and be able to disable and delete it.
Only us plebs get whipped.
Exactly. Group policies give lots of control to mass enable/disable features.
It’s one of the reasons to pirate Enterprise Windows instead of Home/Pro, so you can write your own group policies for your own device.
Been doing that for the past 15 years or so, being able to use group policy is essential with Windows. I’m pretty sure my son really wants to upgrade his last computer (to Linux), but I may have more work to convince the wife.
I always just bought grey market keys (for Pro/Enterprise), in nearly 20 years I never had one fail or quit working randomly.
Why would your wife need to be convinced?
When my gf buys a new laptop she hands it to me and says:
Linux this
Mine Linuxes it herself and has strong distro preferences.
Because she still like the familiarity of Windows. She doesn’t do anything specific to Windows, just doesn’t want to leave it yet.
I thought it was your son’s computer, not a shared one
Oh they aren’t shared, he is holding out because he believes he’ll have gaming issues; my wife on the other hand, just doesn’t want to make the switch yet.
I probably could have phrased it better.
Edit: when I had said ‘his last computer’, meant that he just has one left on Windows.
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I’d go with Bazzite, which is what SteamOS and Fedora Atomic Desktop would look like if they had a child.
Kubuntu crapped out on me after updating, so I tried a few other distros. Bazzite refused to install, but OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has made a really good first impression.
That’s a great distro, used it for quite a while as someone who switches distros somewhat often
Is it much different to something like Pop_OS? I usually hear of Bazzite as a third-party ROG Ally OS.
Having not used Pop, I can’t say for certain, but its likely pretty similar depending on the version of the image you use.
I agree with all your points.
Co-pilot tries to infect W10 too. Showed up on my taskbar the other day and I nearly shit. Just because it’s off your taskbar, doesn’t mean it isn’t running processes. W10 is on life support at this point.
There are registry keys you can use to completely disable Copilot.
on windows 11 the story is different its a dependency of file explorer
Copilot as well? I thought it was that recall thing that was part of explorer
Oops I got copilot confused sorry
Thought I’d missed something, TY. Just give it time and they will integrate it if enough of us keep removing it
Ngl I Don’t want Microsoft to use my personal images and train them on ai I donno if they do that
The LSTC edition has a few more years in it… but I wouldn’t do MASS in a GRAVE… ehr, I mean - fuck.
Look, just search for “MassGrave” on GitHub.
doesnt the ltsc version target enterprises and stuff and you cant just use your home/pro license you need a whole diff license and many anticheats and steam will end support for 10 once it ends support
…did you search “MassGrave”?
oh yeah ik but i meant legit ways
LTSC is “only” available through an enterprise licensing through Microsoft or its partners, which means you can probably ask a company or organization for one of their volume keys, and will probably be the only Windows where you can permanently disable Recall…
Like seriously, I had problems disabling telemetry in Windows 10 Pro because it kept re-enabling them, but not in the LTSC version.
ohhhh i thought you pay for it normally it kinda makes sense tho but yh
i just updated. https://www.startallback.com/ fixed most of my issues along with https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
shame we have to do it, but even with Linux I have to do a bunch of stuff to make it more usable though at least it wont spy on you by default
You guys do realize that you can remove copilot from Windows 11 with a simple regedit or group policy editor tweak, right? Takes like 10 seconds…
The amount of times that windows “features” come back after I disable them via GPO on Windows 10 Entrerprise tells me that this isn’t true.
The irony that setting up Windows now requires more command line use than Linux in 2024.
If you’re using Enterprise on a personal machine, you’ve messed something up. There are other ways beyond Group Policy in that environment that are probably causing what you’re seeing. SCCM, Intune, Policies over the network vs local… that significantly raises the chances of something else stepping on your local Group Policies.
I’ve not had that problem on either of my Win 10 Pro machines when using Group Policy to disable things, over the last four years.
It’s been a year since I’ve uninstalled Windows, but I believe Windows 10 Pro does not have access to the stronger GPO policies that enterprise has. Enterprise was the ad-free version for a while there, but I think it’s just as bad as Pro now.
It’s too easy for them to turn back on without me realizing it, and I’m not going to tolerate having to be that vigilant against something, my own computer, which has absolutely no reason to be hostile to me.
And you can’t afford to fuck this one up. Microsoft Recall isn’t just a virus, it’s worse than just about any other virus. “Did you forget to double check Microsoft’s bullshit on the wrong day lol enjoy your keylogger”
For now, until MS locks that downvlike they have with other things
Until they lobby to get laws changed, many companies have legal requirements regarding PII that mean serious fines if CoPilot or Recall ever turn on in their environment (and if they’re caught of course).
Windows is not going to fuck this up and force this on, handing easy legal wins against them to the world. They will have the normal configuration options available that they always do for features with potential legal liability attached.
Did you miss the recent security blunder with Government security and Microsoft? They didn’t want to tell governments of a secuirty hole in case it meant lowers sales.
yah, i have linux on all my devices save one and ive found ways to get win11 to just work without the bullshit.
it just takes about as much effort to learn systemd syntax because everything became the systemd singularity.
Is copilot regionalised? I’m in NZ and have been running Windows 11 for a year or so, and have never seen copilot appear.
in 24h2 they made it worse its a dependency of explorer which breaks tabbing and stuff
You know damn well how ridiculous that sounds. And if this is the answer to removing Copilot, no thanks. Linux works perfectly fine for me and my gaming needs.
Or… don’t use copilot.
Copilot is not an issue, it’s Recall that could send screenshots of all files and folders to Microsoft.
Even if they don’t send data, it is a treasure trove for a hacker to get. Such a terrible idea MS came up with.
Keyloggers have been present since (at least) win 7. You’re all way too late.
Can’t really move to Linux if I have to make software for Windows since the majority of people won’t move to Linux.
Go to press Windows + W and see what happens on Windows 11
Okay?.. like, I get the point. But you’re telling me Linux does literally nothing you don’t want out of the box? It’s like saying “Run
sudo rm -rf / —no-preserve-root
and see what happens on Linux.”W10… Nothing.
W11, some bullshit popover sidebar thing that takes up actually (Literally? Factually?) 50% of my desktop that tells me about the NASDAQ, the weather, some “local” roadworks in the next city over (when my street has roadworks blocking some significant traffic lights in the literal capital of my country), some recommendations for games, a shopping ad, and some bullshit news headlines that I don’t care about.
app support on linux aint half bad but definitely there is alot of professional apps missing
Yeah because everyone knows once a company drops LTS the software becomes completely unusable!!!
Lack of security updates should be a concern to you, yes.
Good timing honestly. The only reason I kept a Windows machine around was for gaming. Now we have much better support across the board.
Honestly I downgraded to 10 earlier this year. Then the windows 11 update came out that boosts Ryzen performance, well my happy ass couldn’t miss out on them gains. So back to 11 I went.
My PC is pretty much strictly used for gaming so more power is more power.
I immediately de-bloated once I was updated.