Very positively surprised by how seamless the switch from Windows was
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Holy hell, the Ubuntu ISO is 6.3GB now. Soon it may not even fit onto a DL DVD.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Good thing there's BD-Rs
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We've moved on to usb sticks
You've moved on to usb sticks
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You've moved on to usb sticks
Me too, so we
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Fr try reinstalling Windows on a laptop and watch, helplessly, as the installation medium comes with zero drivers. Multi-billion dollar company my ass...
Both Microsoft and Nvidia are multi-trillion dollar companies.
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You've moved on to usb sticks
Who on earth still burns disks (other than pizzas) in 2025?
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How many floppies is that?
Zip disk users rise up.
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FreeCAD certainly looks like it does most of the CAD stuff I need but I have yet to get it to run well enough to be usable on any of the 3 systems I've tried it on (hardware that runs fusion fine). I don't know what people are doing to make it work but I can't figure it out.
How are you getting FreeCAD to run poorly? I've run it fine on a Raspberry Pi.
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Who on earth still burns disks (other than pizzas) in 2025?
I like them. It spins, it makes a sound when being used, it looks cool, I have to be a bit more gentle with it.
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Who on earth still burns disks (other than pizzas) in 2025?
Me, they retain data alot longer than any solid state data storage device. They are much more usable for archival storage. Also I burn CD's to listen to music on my Stereo.
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Me too, so we
That don't mean people don't still burn discs just because you and whoever else doesn't.
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Today, I switched the last of my Windows machines to Linux: my gaming PC. I've been using Linux on servers for many years but was a bit apprehensive for gaming.
Turns out it just... works. Just installed steam and turned proton on, have zero performance or other issues. I'm using Ubuntu 25.04 for the 6.14 kernels NT emulation performance tweaks. Aside from there not being a catalyst driver for it and so I can't undervolt my card everything is great.
My only hangup is installing repacks or modding games. It for sure works, but it's a bigger headache. I use mint on my daily driver laptop otherwise.
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That don't mean people don't still burn discs just because you and whoever else doesn't.
Yeah and we're still we.
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Installing windows step 4 if you're playing games not off the main stores, install:
- DirectX 9 Jun 2010
- Visual C++ Redistributables (2008 - whatever the latest is)
- .NET Framework 3.5 (if you wanna play older games. You have to do this from from programs and features)
I did not count it since steam does it automatically usually.
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To its credit (of which there is little), Windows can handle most things these days just fine without externally obtained drivers. Gradually improving since 7 onwards. The only sore spots really are proper gfx drivers and printers. 10 and beyond will also gracefully handle being drive-swapped into completely different hardware.
If it's a reinstall, activation is automatic for OEM licences.
Step 4, yes, what a shitshow. Way too many hoops and hurdles to go through just to get a functional OS without the bloat and guff.
"just fine" is not what gamers want, besides sometimes new drivers offer sizeable boosts to stability and framerates.
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Step 5. Watch it reboot overnight and download even more useless bloat
Or quit out of your game to restart and install updates.
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Step 5. Watch it reboot overnight and download even more useless bloat
Oh and step 7:
Spend 10 minutes quitting, restarting discord and then restarting your pc to fix innumerable and common audio bugs caused by terrible windows drivers. -
Today, I switched the last of my Windows machines to Linux: my gaming PC. I've been using Linux on servers for many years but was a bit apprehensive for gaming.
Turns out it just... works. Just installed steam and turned proton on, have zero performance or other issues. I'm using Ubuntu 25.04 for the 6.14 kernels NT emulation performance tweaks. Aside from there not being a catalyst driver for it and so I can't undervolt my card everything is great.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I moved to Kubuntu recently. I'm overall happier, but I've had a number of pain points.
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I bought DaVinci Resolve thinking they supported Linux. They do, just very poorly. Figuring out how to get that up and running was a faff. Davinci Resolve also doesn't support AAC audio on MP4 files on Linux, so I had to write a script to transcode the audio of media to WAV. It also doesn't play nice with window management. Overall, using resolve has been a huge pain.
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I use Insta360s software just to stitch 360 video, getting that set up with bottles wasn't the most straightforward but it works now.
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I still haven't figured out Fusion360, and I really don't want to spend the time learning a new software. I learned it before I'd started making an effort to only use cross-platform tools.
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I bought the Xbox Store version of Forza Horizon 5 so I could play it on my PC and Xbox. I no longer have the Xbox, and I'd have to re-buy it on Steam if I wanted to play it.
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My Index just isn't detected on Ubuntu. It was on Windows. I've tried a bunch of things, but it just doesn't show up, so I haven't been able to play VR. It might have a bad cable, but I'm not sure. Weird that it showed up before and doesn't in Kubuntu.
Linux is all about finding alternatives. There is an alternate workflow, but you might have to deal with inconveniences or put in effort to learn something new. It's been a lot of work. Also, I might need to dual boot windows to play VR stuff.
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Oh and step 7:
Spend 10 minutes quitting, restarting discord and then restarting your pc to fix innumerable and common audio bugs caused by terrible windows drivers.Oh yeah, and every restart takes 10 minutes of “preparing updates”
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Holy hell, the Ubuntu ISO is 6.3GB now. Soon it may not even fit onto a DL DVD.
Yesterday I installed cachyos and I was shocked to see that the 3gb install image was actually a net install and I couldn't install it offline. I used my phone as hotspot thinking "how much data would download it anyway, maybe it just needs internet to do geo2ip for suggesting locale" (it actually does that) but instead it downloaded another 3gb
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How many floppies is that?
4,375,000,000 of the 3 1/2" disks. Sierra would be proud.
