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The drive isn’t even hooked up I swear!
I have Windows on separate drive, but I haven’t used it in years (I mean, I launched it recently once to check if a hardware issue I was having was Linux specific — it wasn’t). I’m planning to delete it to reclaim the space, but I think I have some files I want to get from there but I don’t want to go through the entire file system to find them, so it’s just sitting there lol
Hey Jesus can you help me get Disco Elysium running on Kubuntu? I would ask for help with Fusion360 but I would probably need your dad’s help with that
There’s FreeCAD.
I try it every couple of months, but as long as it’s faster to boot into a Windows install and start Fusion360 than it is to learn how to make a cube in FreeCAD, I’m going to keep my windows install
FreeCAD isn’t that hard to use. Just different and not as polished.
I tried FreeCAD last week, and it was absolute trash. Extruding individual curves from a sketch as surfaces? Nah. Extruding multiple bodies from one sketch? Yes, but you can’t select them individually for subsequent operations. Are there synchronous modeling tools? I couldn’t find any. Rotation is terrible no matter which option I tried. If only I could get my SpacePilot Pro working with it. Can you even do any advanced surfacing? I could go on and on.
I was hoping for something akin to SolidWorks, which is kind of a second-teir modeling software in my eyes, but it was just a little better than AutoCAD. Maybe I’m just spoiled with NX. I just found it completely unusable.
FreeCAD has a… different workflow… than other CAD’s. It’s confusing at first, but once learned, it’s pretty easy to use.
I have used FreeCAD in place of Fusion360 for school and I found it better. Of course, not everyone will have basic operations and a different tool has a new learning curve.
Keep in mind that FreeCAD is also in development. No company (that I know) backs the development, making an open-source versatile CAD software takes a lot of time and has a lot of bugs/limitations.
I know I shouldn’t say this, but hopefully all tools (even non-free) will be available under Linux.
Sorry, I am a sinner.
Windows to my linux partition:
(this is why I wont dual boot)
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
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).
Same. I have a 1tb drive with windows and a 4tb running Linux
Separate hard drives fixes this one.
But what if I’m on the fence and I’m trying out Linux?
Sink or swim! Embrace chaos! Constant confusion builds character.
This is allowed.
See another stupid repost
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.
I have some software that doesnt work with wine or anything else the like Ive tried, and doesnt seem to have a linux equivalent that I can find. Ive only been using linux a few months now, so maybe theres some other options that Im missing, but how else does one deal with that apart from booting back into the old windows install whenever I need that specific software?
Have you tried a virtual machine?
The other benefit is there’s no fun and games on the windows boot so i can’t get distracted from work. If it was just a quick shortcut away I’d get nothing done.
Theyve looked a bit daunting to set up, so not just yet. But isnt that effectively the same thing, still running windows for those programs just without having to actually sign out of the linux partition to do it?
Yeah, but it’s nice to just be able to use your windows software without needing to bootup windows, and then after you’ve finished reboot into linux.
Isn’t vm performance terrible?
Well you gotta give your VM a little more juice than just one CPU core and 4 MB of RAM :)
Yes, I realize that. But even if I give 24gb of ram and 8-16 cores, in my experience VMs are still painfully slow. (That being said I generally only use them in a work setting, meaning not on Linux)
Sadly I have to waste 512gb of ssd for windows because oculus rift cv1 drivers are not finished and haven’t been worked on for a year I think…
Didn’t expect to find another CV1 usr in the wild.
I wish there was a way to use bottles or whatever to use the damn thing until an affordable and usable replacement finally appears.
Found out that on the kalman filter branch thaytan is still updating it https://github.com/thaytan/OpenHMD/tree/rift-kalman-filter haven’t tried out yet, because I am busy with getting my skr mini e3 reissued.
I remember one time after checking out Ubuntu when I went back to Windows, my PC would ask if I wanted to boot into Windows or Windows.
How about Windows AND MacOS? Asking for a friend.
I wish I could delete that partition for good, but my computer grqphics professor forces me to write code for DirectX instead of Vulkan.
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.
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
“Whoops I stomped on the MBR again, what are you gonna do 'bout it?”
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.
I still turn it on every few months. It’s helpful to make sure that kernel works fine and it’s just my VGA port making trouble. Also some beta stuff doesn’t work on Linux. When friends call me to play a game that doesn’t work properly after a quick install I don’t have the time to search on forums. If someone could tell me how to run pirated Hades II I would be glad. It only start up once and 2nd time it crashes. I’m not gonna pay 30€ for it nor finish it in one breath.
