• 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      My first Linux install, I downloaded some tutorial from somewhere, can’t remember where (maybe someone on IRC shared it 🤔… IDK, I can’t remember), and this is litelarly what it said 😂.

      You have to be prepared when installing Linux. Take a week or two off work or school and make sure you have the following things at your disposal.

      • Find as many bootable floppy’s and as many different dostro CDs as possible. Why? The boot floppy from Debian might work with Suse, but not the Debian CD.

      • Make sure you have at least two CD drives and floppy drives at your disposal. The more, the better. Why? You’ll probably burn out the first ones while trying to figure out which boot floppy goes with which distro.

      • Have coffee at your disposal all the time. You’re at the bottom of the pot? Pour that in your mug and put a new one on the kettle.

      • Stock up on as many different kinds of alcohol you can find, preferably strong stuff. Trust me, you’ll need it.

  • Treczoks@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    There are actually only two kinds of windows apps that don’t run on Linux: Those made not to run on Linux on purpose, and those that were made by so bad programmers that you’ll be amazed how fast the “fixme” messages scroll in the terminal window from which you started wine. I’m working with one of the latter, and I’m happy that I just finished the last project with it. This piece of software is plain shit. And it looks like they don’t intend to fix their shit.

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s not exactly on purpose, but Wine is still missing a lot of hardware level translation, like native SATA for example, so… 🤷.

      • Treczoks@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        I’m not talking about limits in low-level hardware support. I’m talking e.g. about games with anti-cheating software or productivity software with invasive license managers that are made not to run under anything but Windows.

  • nifty@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I hate comments that are like “oh if only Linux could run Whatever” etc. You can have more than one computer (or partition), and you can have more than one OS. Windows isn’t going to divorce you if you spend time with Linux.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, enjoy that… I’ve tried it enough times to find the process cumbersome and full of troubleshooting. In the right state of mind I enjoy that, but I could never straight up ditch windows as someone who games often. Sometimes you just want to download a new game and play it.

    Linux will get there, if things keep going that direction. It’s not there yet, though.

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yeah, enjoy that… I’ve tried it enough times to find the process cumbersome and full of troubleshooting.

      But… that’s part of the joy 🤨…

      In the right state of mind I enjoy that, but I could never straight up ditch windows as someone who games often.

      Who said you have to ditch Windows 🤨. I mostly use Wine so I don’t have to restart and boot into Windows or fire up a VM. It’s just simpler.