• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 days ago

    You can dual boot Windows. I’m giving everyone here express permission. You can even mass grave up an LTSC copy of windows 10 for a couple of years, it’s all cool.

    Just be aware! Windows updates do fuck around with the hard drive partitions and MBR, so your copy of Linux might get bricked or partially overwritten once in awhile.

    • piranhaconda@mander.xyz
      2·
      6 days ago

      I was not aware of this… Thanks for the heads up. The only device I have dual booting right now is just my Lenovo Legion Go, handheld gaming. Split windows and Bazzite (fedora based)

      Guess it’s time to wipe the windows. I haven’t even used it that much

    • sheogorath@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 days ago

      Oblivion Remaster got me relapsing because I still had leftover game pass subscription. Forgive me my lord. And holy shit Todd managed to stitch Unreal Engine on top of Creation Engine, it’s black magic fuckery. Lots of esp only mods still work like wtf.

    • gamer@lemm.ee
      4·
      7 days ago

      I copied those files into my home folder years ago and wiped the partition for good.

    • HereIAm@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      I do unfortunately still use it for my VR sim racing. But half of that is because I got a quest 3 as an entry point for VR. I’d love to get one where you don’t have to fiddle around with video compression and WiFi latency.

    • altphoto@lemmy.today
      2·
      6 days ago

      Change to Linux boot loader grub and two disks… Your old piece of shit disk for windows. The good stuff for Linux. Never look back… Unless your aunty needs help getting another virus or whatever windows offers.

  • Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    I refuse. I flat out will not. Is there a couple games I’m missing sorely? Yes. Has the devil been whispering, “Come on… just a hundred gigs for that one game… you’ll only have to boot it when you play…” Also yes. But I refuse.

    Not today, satan.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    I’ve been thinking about keeping a running windows on the side once I switch my “gaming” system. There’s two things that won’t work well (or at all) on Linux: fully PC-tethered wireless SteamVR with my current hardware (HTC Cosmos Elite), and a ripping software.

    I might keep a small windows running for VR (although I’m currently looking into trashing the hardware if a good alternative shows up). For the ripping software, I’ll just stitch a script that uses existing open source software to do roughly the same thing.

    And I might just get a small box, like a 200something computer with only Steam and the wireless card, to remote play VR through it, if that’s an option.

    Bye bye windows.

  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world
    941·
    8 days ago

    Sorry but using less Windows via dual boot setup > Not using Linux at all.

    Whatever works for people is the right choice.

    • Lem Jukes@lemm.eeEnglish
      39·
      8 days ago

      sure but this is linux memes , so nuance and rational thought mean dick all mehbreveh

        • Lem Jukes@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          7 days ago

          Please explain this to:

          -My Job

          And then subsequently(or convince my job to migrate to foss alts for the following)

          -Adobe

          -Autodesk

          -Vectric

          -Google(workspaces)

          -intuit

          -Trimble

    • nope@jlai.lu
      6·
      7 days ago

      It’s been >6years I’ve dual booted windows alongside Linux. Granted, the windows partition isn’t often used; but never has it erased my Linux out of existence

    • SeekPie@lemm.ee
      5·
      7 days ago

      I used to have 2 ssds with one for Windows, the other for Linux. When I needed more space for games I just gave up on Windows and haven’t since looked back. (Also converted one of my friends to dual-booting Mint).

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
      151·
      8 days ago

      Hell yeah, another HDR lover on Lemmy! Now there’s two of us!

      That’s the main reason why I use Win11 as my primary OS. 10’s HDR support is half-assed, and KDE’s is even worse. Linux doesn’t even support nVidia GPUs properly, so SDR-to-HDR conversion is missing for both YouTube and local videos. And since Win10 doesn’t have AutoHDR for games, that leaves 11 as my only choice if I want to play games and watch videos in HDR with minimal hassle.

      (edit: And yes I know that converting to HDR isn’t as good as real HDR; but IDC cause it looks amazing to me, especially in the highlights.)

      • Phuntis@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        32·
        7 days ago

        yeah nah couldn’t get it to work and I’m not playing around with it anymore I tried for weeks windows just works when it just works on mint I’ll nuke windows

        • exu@feditown.comEnglish
          4·
          7 days ago

          Mint uses Cinnamon desktop, which currently only supports Xorg. For HDR support you need something with Wayland and pretty up to date.

          • Phuntis@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            3·
            7 days ago

            cinnamon has experimental wayland support I tried that I tried stuff based on KDE I tried gamescope none of it worked I’m not looking for support I looked for it it doesn’t work right now for me

  • simop_jo@lemmy.world
    24·
    6 days ago

    I know it’s Linux memes but its better than using a bit of both instead of but trying Linux at all. We need more casual people to try Linux. Not just diehards.

    Edit: typo

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      The Steam Deck is at least trying to attract the casual users in, and I feel like the Switch 2 getting hammered with bad press right now and getting destroyed by the Nintendo fanbase might convert a few people over to the Steam Deck too.