Thinking on switching to linux

[tehn00bi@lemmy.world]

Like… how. Or is that part of the joke.

[semperverus@lemmy.world]

• AMD drivers: use the built-in MESA drivers that include the official AMD support.

• Gmail: ProtonMail for the service, Kmail for the desktop client.

• Chrome: Firefox, or Librewolf if you care about privacy.

• Office365: LibreOffice for full FOSS or OnlyOfficr for less freedom but more comfort.

• iTunes: depends entirely on what you use it for, but I buy my music mostly off of BandCamp these days.

• MuseScore: MuseScore

• Norton: Why were you using Norton in the first place? It's practically a virus itself. If you need an antivirus on Linux, you might want ClamAV/ClamTK for something that runs locally only, or Microsoft Defender for Linux.

• Py-Charm: Py-Charm, VSCode, Vim, Kate/KWrite

• Remote Desktop to iOS: I got nothin'

• Star Citizen: Star Citizen

• Steam: Steam

• VPN: Wireguard

• Windows Games: install locally using Wine and then add to Steam as a non-Steam game to use Proton for better support.

Windows 10: run it in a VM if you still need it, or keep it on a separate SSD and dual boot into that.

[nibodhika@lemmy.world]

I mean, he's joking, but:

AMD Drivers: yeah, this one's not a thing

Chrome: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/EWW.html

Gmail: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryMail

Office 360: https://orgmode.org/

I-Tunes: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/itunes.el (although this one probably doesn't work)

JBL: I have no idea what it is

Muse score: https://github.com/piercegwang/staff-mode

Anti-virus: I don't know of any, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone listed a plugin for checking files

PyCharm: This is the one he said to use Vim

Remote desktop: Emacs can natively open remote files or directories

Star citizen: obviously not

Steam: Obviously not, because it's proprietary, I really wouldn't be surprised if there's a GOG plugin

VPN: https://github.com/anticomputer/ovpn-mode

There's some truth to the joke that emacs is a very complete Operating system.

[turnip@sh.itjust.works]

Proton mail has an email and VPN together as a package.

[tehn00bi@lemmy.world]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc&pp=ygUTT2xkIHByb2dyYW1lciBlbWFjcw%3D%3D

This is all I thought about when I read the comment.

[majestic@lemmy.ml]

There is AFAIK no way to do this.

Apple's never open-sourced the APIs and interfaces and it only works on Macs and Windows. For this you will need to have either a Windows install (recommend separate drive so it doesn't break Linux bootloader) or a persistent or not Windows VM with USB passthrough. I'm not even sure how well the VM situation works but it probably should. You don't even have to have a license for Windows, you can just run it in the VM for this purpose alone but it does mean oh at least 40GB set aside on your drive for the VM image plus more if you want to do things like back-up the phone.

[dfx4509b_2@lemmy.org]

I'd recommend Lutris over Heroic both because it runs locally where Heroic is Electron, and because Lutris allows community-based native Linux ports for games where applicable, eg. for Ultima VII: The Black Gate + The Forge of Virtue, Lutris gives you the option of installing that game with Exult instead of DOSbox, for Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II, you have the option to install those with OpenLara, for Doom 1 and 2, you have the option to install those with ZDoom, etc.

Also, at least for DOS games where you don't have the option to install a community-based modern port, you can use native DOSbox as a runner instead of Windows DOSbox as well through Lutris.

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Pico might be a good way to jump shop on VR. Not sure if you can change OS on current hardware. But next purchase you have plenty of options.

[dfx4509b_2@lemmy.org]

As I pointed out, if you have an older iPod, eg. like an iPod Video or Classic, or any other player that supports it, Rockbox is a thing you can flash onto it.

[olympicyes@lemmy.world]

I do have one and I have a Mac with iTunes Match (iCloud music syncing for iPhone). That said I keep most of my actual files on my Ubuntu machine and might want to experiment with the iPod at some point.

[dfx4509b_2@lemmy.org]

You'll need an original iPod, iPod Mini, or iPod Video or Classic for Rockbox compatibility. iPod Touch is just an iPhone without the phone, so it's locked into iOS.

[dfx4509b_2@lemmy.org]

There might be some cases even for single-player games where DRM platform-locks you into Windows but that's rare from my understanding.

[privatizetwiddle@lemmy.sdf.org]

An alternative is to bind mount the appcompat folder from your linux steam into the steam library on your windows drive.

I really hope Bazzite manages to smooth out the last few snags and use cases for dual-boot so that I can recommend it to more non-techy people without needing to explain stuff like this or the unintuitive process of importing installed windows games into Lutris.

[synapse1278@lemmy.world]

I haven't encountered this problem myself.

[somedev@aussie.zone]

Remmina for Remote Desktop, awesome piece of software.

[dfx4509b_2@lemmy.org]

Like I said, it's rare especially for games, it's more common in productivity software though.....

cough Adobe... cough

[dfx4509b_2@lemmy.org]

Even on older kernels, if anything hardware like GPUs will benefit more from running newer drivers than a newer kernel, ie. AMD cards from GCN1 up to present-day RDNA3 are actively being supported by Mesa and the dev branch generally tends to have more optimizations especially for newer cards but also older ones as well, than the latest stable branch.

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

Maybe we're now at a point where it's a good choice for more techy people to use, and that adoption will mean more work gets done on it.

I installed it because I wanted to see how well it would run games. But, I haven't actually played many games on it, not because they don't work (they work great), but because I've found it's so good at everything else too. It made it easy to get around to some projects I'd been putting off.

My machine plays all kinds of fairly recent games extremely well, but Microsoft is ditching Windows 10 support in less than a year, and has decided this machine doesn't qualify for Windows 11. I bet there are lots of other people in the same boat. Bazzite doesn't have to be perfect, but if it can be better than throwing away your old machine, there could be a lot of people switching soon.

[olympicyes@lemmy.world]

It’s a 120 GB Classic

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