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[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 78 points 14 hours ago (32 children)

Oh man, don't read the comments, sad to see the smartasses saying "report back when you install windows again in two months" while getting utterly fucked by Windows.

I mean, I understand being resistant to change but being a fanatic of Windows or anything for that matter just because that's all you know is really ignorant, it's not a sports team for fucks sake, of course it's not easy switching and you will have problems just dont be afraid to ask and read the error warning.

Rant over

I use Windows for work and I miss Win10, I don't like it but I'm aware that's currently the target of most Consumer SW for good reason but that reason is starting to break (say it with me! BAD BUSINESS DECISIONS!!!).

Happy to see Linux getting mainstream, not all comments are bad but I the trolls got me.

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

I’ve been using Linux as my daily driver for over a month. The only thing I miss are some old windows apps that I’m too lazy to troubleshoot in Wine.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

I’m too lazy to troubleshoot in Wine.

I've been daily driving Linux for about 3 years now and one major tip I can give is to avoid using non Linux apps as far as possible. When I started with Linux I also tried to get windows apps running on Linux, but this, at least as far as I remember, never worked the way I wanted ans always caused more troubles. Currently I'm at a point where I dont even know when I used plain wine (I am not counting proton) the last time. It has been 2 years at least. I Am using native Linux apps for everything I do. Much less trouble shooting, no need to learn wine additionally to the command line and much less prone to breaking because of an update.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What if you run windows apps through proton

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Havent done that (except for games ofc)

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