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Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

"Switch to Linux" is always the answer but a Nvidia graphics card, Stream Deck, and GoXLR are all things I use every single day, with no official linux support I'm never going to be able to use it as a daily driver. I have plenty of VMs that I run Linux on, but it's just a non-starter for my day to day gaming rig.

MS should have done what they said and made W10 "the last version of windows" instead of doing the typical corpo bullshit and coming out with an even worse version.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

As someone who switched to Linux, and found reasons not to for literal decades, this has helped me:

Have a second ssd in your PC that is untarnished by the windows bootloader.

This way one can easily switch via BIOS / UEFI and no other annoying software.

Dual booting is also less annoying, if you switch via boot menu. It lets you test drive and configure Linux anytime you're in the headspace for it and reduces pressure on yourself.

Install linux on it. My current favorite for your situation would be Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Spin (what a mouthful). Have another exfat partitioned usb disk ready for file exchange with windows. Again, this makes handling windows easier, has nothing to do with linux.

Nvidia on fedora works good enough. third party repos also help a lot.

streamdeck is wonderful hardware, I know a friend who uses it daily with streamdeck_ui

same with GoXLR Configuration Utility. Software is there, the only question is does it work for you.

This is to my knowledge as close to "official" as you can get. Good luck on your journey!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Back in my day it was Lynx 2012 / apocalypse / whatever it was called saying that was the last Lynx they'd ever make. To my annoyance, it turns out they were lying. Although I don't tend to hang out with the sort of people that blast themselves with Lynx so I guess it makes no difference either way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Dude Tc helicon dropped software support for the GoXLR 1 year ago, indeed the community continuing the support for this device was at first a GoXLR control software for Linux that ,after some time, became a windows app too. https://github.com/GoXLR-on-Linux/GoXLR-Utility

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Cant wait to erase windows in October 14 2025 I just need better app support for me idc a out adobe Microsoft office and stuff and roblox I have a few options sober or delete roblox thinking of deleting roblox due to the moderation thing

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That was some sentence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

True just my plans and stuff

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

HDR support and Adobe support... All I really still need...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Plasma on Wayland does have HDR support now... But I don't have a way to test how good it is, and I think it's both still unfinished and severely lacking support from applications. But hey, things are improving!

I wouldn't count on Adobe support though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh, look, a post on Lemmy about Windows. I'm excited to engage in a unique, nuanced discussion about the topic of the post!

So glad I'm not on Reddit where people just repeat the same predictable thing over and over then jerk each other off.

(I use Linux too. But I hate seeing copy+paste Linux shilling on every Windows post. It's preaching to the choir and uninspired.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

It's all part of the authentic lemmy experience.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Literally moved everything to Linux (Nobara) like 3 weeks ago and the only thing I can't get to work is Bizhawk which I can easily get around. It's insane how far Linux has come for gaming and whatnot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

I was thinking how, back in the day, the most popular web browser was IE, which wasn't on Linux. Now the most popular browser is Chrome, which has been on Linux since 2009 or whenever it was.

And of course lots of other big software is on Linux, like VS Code, Zoom, Slack, Skype. And Linux is on the Steam Deck. So yes I agree, Linux has come a long way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

mine hasnt been updated for about 3.5 years now. not having online access has its moments