ITT: we post reasons you are tied to windows. Pic related

Mah Gamez

Wait, people actually use tile mode?

lazy

>>61288748
Yeah its a good way to organise software..... the other option is 'lmao desktop icons'

kek this isn't 1998.

>>61288676
foobar2000. and i am not joking

>>61288873
/thread

>>61288676
muh dx12

Why do people have 3 browsers installed? makes no sense

>>61288961
web development

>>61288676
I like Windows 8.1 start more desu

>>61288676
you poor soul

>>61288871
>clicking on things
>not just typing the first 2 characters and hitting enter
no anon, it is you who is stuck in 1998

>>61288873
i don't understand

>>61288873
Is wine not an option for foobar2k?

>>61289077
>>not just typing the first 2 characters and hitting enter

You still need to enter the start menu, dickhead.

>>61288873
>>61288922
foobar is not even that good

>>61288676
NTFS

there's no obvious way to see file's creation time on ext4, or it's simply isn't recorded. why the fuck

>>61288676
Gay Men and support for 7.1™ Headphones.

Drawing programs on my laptop/tablet, Ableton on my desktop. Sucks

I wanna buy bitwig but a) no money b) not confident in Linux user apps for live stage use

>>61289208
this.

>falling for the foobar meme

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>>61289191
>Press windows key
What a fucking drag

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>>61289191
>superkey
>twoletters
>enter
Can windows users not do this? Every DE for linux has had this function since the early 2000s.

>>61288961
Compatibility with people and sites

It's handy to have edge installed for certain things, and my gf doesn't like firefox - hence chrome.

>>61289433
>Can windows users not do this?
You can

>windows key
>twoletters
>enter

There's just no need to brag about basic functionality, retard.

>>61288676
>Gaming once in a while
>I use Windows at work
>No ActiveSync Client available on Linux

That's pretty much it.

>>61288676
Adobe.

>>61288871
Just use the tiles on the start menu you Autist

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>>61288676
visual studio
cad
adobe
office
foobar
occasional gaming
it feels right at home desu

only games tbqh
otherwise I would highly prefer linux

my hardware cannot GPU passthrough

>>61289191
implying the windows 10 search actually fucking works for once.

>>61289706
What doesn't work for you?

>>61288676
Gaymes used to pretty much tie me to windows. Then I started using Linux, and I realized I'd rather give up gaymes than be cucked by microsoft ever again. I don't understand how a multi billion dollar company can make an OS this shit compared to a literal community driven OS.

>>61288676
drivers

>>61289692
>visual studio
loser

>>61289706
Get ClassicShell, you mong

>>61288676
>reasons you are tied to windows
It works better than Linux on my laptop.

>foobar 2000
>chwarae gemau
>no gpu passthrough

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the ability to completely disable anti aliasing
low input lag when typing

>>61288676
>Firefox, chrome
Both on Linux
>edge
No one uses that shit, no need to target it
>Eve online
You could try wine
>MS office
Libreoffice, ms office online, google docs
>sumatrapdf
Linux has plenty of pdf readers
>7zip, filezilla, skype
All have native Linux versions
>Weather, calendar
Linux also has calendar and weather programs
>All that cad stuff
Blender and freecad are both Linux native, any of the other ones you need could probably be run in wine
>notepad++
Linux has plenty of similar and better text editors like Emacs and gedit
>powershell
Bash is better
>bash on Ubuntu on windows
Bash is native to Linux
>Arduino and jetbrains
Both have Linux versions
>github
Git is native to Linux
>illustrator
Inkscape
>photoshop
Gimp and krita or wine
>krita
Native to Linux

Seems like you don't really need windows that much.

>>61288873
There are plenty of alternatives on Linux. Deadbeef is designed to be very similar to foobar. I like audacious. Rhythmbox is kinda nice, lots of people like Clementine.

>>61292139
>>powershell
>Bash ABSOLUTELY AND OBJECTIVELY is better
Powershell is a complete clusterfuck.

>>61289252
You can mount ntfs on Linux just fine, also any GUI file manager should show you creation time, and you can use stat in a terminal. You might try xfs instead of ext4 as it has more file metadata features.

>>61288676
u can do that on KDE kek

>>61289378
My cheap chinese drawing tablet I got on Amazon works out of the box on Linux so I assume that brand name tablets will. I don't know much about audio production but honestly I would trust it more than windows as windows blue screens and likes to try to update all the time. Try looking in the archives of the Linux action show or watching the ask Noah show (both from Jupiter broadcasting) as Noah does some audio stuff on Linux.

>>61289493
You might want to check if you're games support linux, as more and more games these days do. Isn't activesync deprecated? You might look into syncthing, I use it to sync stuff between my computers and phone and it works well.

>>61288676
I only dual boot for gaems even though I rarely play anymore, VM are really useful if I need a Windows specific software.
Windows desktop isn't quite there yet for me to use it on a daily basis.

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>>61288676
Literally none. Fedora security spin has all of the networking tools I could ever need to get my job done.

>>61288871
Unless you're a ricer NEET, you'll hardly ever look at the desktop. Throw up a nature wallpaper and call it a day.

>>61289692
Emacs and vim or even GNOME builder are all better than visual studio. FreeCAD is a thing. Gimp works fine for most photo editing and lightworks is good for video and inkscape for vectors. Libreoffice works fine and ms office has an online version, also google docs is a thing. You should check if your games support Linux. After you use it for a while Linux will feel like home.

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>>61289252
You need to try ZFS.
You may forget everything else.

>>61289702
>>61291919
What hardware do you have? Sometimes you can still do passthrough.

>>61292358
It's so great to see people say that windows desktop isn't quite there for usability, it really shows how good Linux has gotten and how much of a shit show Microsoft is.

>>61288676
Maplestory

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>>61292139
Freecad is not an alternative to anything from Autodesk.
Inkspace is not an alternative to Illustrator.
Gimp is not an alternative to Photoshop.
Anyone who used those programs for actual work knows that.

Online office applications are a pain to use and switching from LibreOffice to Microsoft Office was a great decision.
The online upside to LibreOffice is that Calc has scripting support in languages that are not fucking Basic.

>>61292667
>The online
The only*

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>>61292281
This, you can even gayme with a PCI passthrough

>>61292346
activesync is mainly used for exchange servers.
it push-synces your mails, contacts and calendar

Oh let me just install this quick update here.... Andddddd, BOOF.

Windows has experienced and error in your last session. Unexpected closure of bot net unauthorized, unauthorized, unauthorized, unauthorized, unauthorized, unauthorized. Do not boot GNU plus Linux, do not boot Gnu plus, Linux, not boot GNU plus Linux, do not boot Gnu plus, plz not, 4ytho, I am your favorite bot net tho, plz, plz.


Fuck windows.

Literally only video games. Would highly prefer Linux on my main computer and already use it on my laptop.

Not tied to anything. I'm just not hampered by Windows enough to bother replacing it.

>>61292139
>Seems like you don't really need windows that much.

I like how you skipped over the engineering and analysis software

>etabs
>sap2000
>rhino
>inventor
>robot
>solidworks

Seems like these are the likely hangups.

Absolutely crippling your work because 'hurr at least I can use libreoffice' is retarded at best.

games /thread

Office & Silverlight for work.
Both shouldn't be an issue next year thanks to HTML5 thank fuck.

>>61288676
Adobe stuff? Just ask them to port shit to Linux. I doubt they wouldn't if they were asked by tens of thousands of people.

>>61293138
Same here. I just don't understand how some people have enough time in their life to literally switch their entire home desktop to another OS purely for 4chan reputation.

>>61296366
Given how often my Windows breaks to the point where I have to reinstall the bastard, it's not much more effort to just install something else.

>>61295324
why don you play differnt gams

>>61296362
but yo u can just do video edition on a ipad next to your laptop

>>61296452
You're doing something terribly wrong

Because I like it Linux is just a meme even free is too damn expensive in time and effort to make it work.

Not even kidding

>>61288676
once hardware support for 7/8 dries up i'll probably ditch my last windows box and go full freetard

>>61296362
You missed all the analysis software.

>>61288871
I have the windows key mapped to my side mouse key. Looks nice and keeps everything organized.

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>>61288676

>>61288748
I personally use it cuz I hate the W10 start menu

>>61289208
you mad, freetard?

Flstudio, none of the Foss alternatives do it for me.

>>61292376
>FreeCAD is a thing. Gimp works fine for most photo editing and lightworks is good for video and inkscape for vectors.
These are all completely unacceptable.

>>61292834
given that pci passthrough requires a separate monitor and possibly even keyboard, mouse, and audio, it's very hard to come up with a situation where it makes any sense.

>>61289446
>my gf
stop lying to us anon.

How do I add more stuff? When I right click nothing happens

>>61297011
So much this. Despite the multiple ongoing efforts to make a decent FOSS DAW, they all just feel kind of clunky. FL Studio is extremely comfy.

>>61296509
Whatya mean, every person I know has had boot problems & blue screens etc to the point of having to reinstall windows to fix problems many times throughout their lives. I don't know a single person who hasn't. Not my fault windows breaks with hardware/software every few months. Maybe I should go to Linux because Windows is just too difficult to maintain & troubleshoot.

>>61289706
oh but it does
maybe you keep ticking a certain checkbox

>>61288676
Windows/Linux is great

>>61297495
Linux is even worse especially ubuntu. Its win10 tier when it comes to breaking down

>>61297832
Not that guy, but no it doesnt lol it hides a lot of stuff regular explorer search finds

>>61297960
yeah I used to have that problem
not anymore

.exe

>>61288961
I view normie stuff on Edge so Microsoft is sure to see it then while they're distracted by that I download my exobytes of CP through Firefox. They have no idea.

Anybody on that Linux Subsystem for Windows? That's my entire workflow these days.

>>61298360
I am, but as the human form of a Facebook Machine I don't really know what to do with it.

>prboom+'s audio doesn't work for some reason

that's about it

>>61298373
Other than the usual Ubuntu stuff, I mounted my code folder from my C drive and use VSCode to run all my dev from there; "code" is the command to bring it up

>>61298417
What can be laughably called "my prior programming work" has always been done in Notepad++.

Also my usual Ubuntu stuff was exactly the same as my usual Windows stuff, plus some time wasted configuring DEs/WMs.

I'm starting to despair at how simple my life is.

>>61288676
Altium Designer and Dark Souls 3.

>>61298453
Well I typically wouldn't recommend the Linux Subsystem unless you had actual dev objectives for it. I find running a webserver (for sandboxing or something) is much easier in it than using some kind of software made for Windows.

>>61298478
I'll be honest, I only turned it on so I could screenfetch and just hoped the rest would become obvious in time.

>>61291962
Could you post that wallpaper?

>>61298497
Find one of those prog challenge lists and do that, I dunno bro. Run inventory on your life or something.

>>61298543
>Run inventory on your life
>console.log(life.length)
>0

Why do I even computer anymore

>>61298592
You can only ever set realistic goals until you run a comprehensive checkup of what you have/know/can do. Baby steps, man.

Cubase
Various VSTs
Hardware Accelerated Adobe Photoshop & Premiere
Office
Gaymez

because linux is an abysmal experience for creative professionals

>>61298633
I'm just being a shit for comic effect. I've dabbled around enough to know how2computer. I just don't care enough to do anything more than browse and shitpost along with the occasional game. It's like I have a nice tool chest in the garage and I know how to use the stuff in there, but I don't make excuses to tear apart my lawnmower motor every weekend.

WSL is the same way for me. I'm sure one day when I need it, it'll come in handy. Just like the tools.

Adobe Premiere and the occassional game. I still use Linux but for the forseeable future I'll always need to have a Windows PC around.

>>61289191
>stuck in 1998 AND retarded

>>61288748
I don't use it, but I love the windows 8 start screen
you can fit a million apps on the screen.
The icons are big as shit so you can just quickly move the mouse to the program you want and open it without even thinking about it.

>>61297052
PCI passthrough does not require a separate monitor, keyboard, mouse or audio device. Dual monitors is nice because you can have one with Linux and one with windows and use synergy to control both but you can just use a single monitor and switch inputs on it.

>>61299105
At this point you've completely disabled the Linux UI and would have saved time just dual booting instead of reconnecting your cables.

>>61297944
Only Ubuntu is worse, and thats honestly just the 16. series that turned out bad.

>>61299110
You can just flip inputs dude. It's still faster than dual booting as you can just shut down the VM and Linux is still running instead of rebooting.

>>61288676
Just werks

>>61289433
>Can windows users not do this? Every DE for linux has had this function since the early 2000s.
>xfce doenst have this
>cinnamon doesnt have this
>lxde doesnt have this
>lxqt doesnt have this
>kde has just recently added a default hotkey
>mate doesnt have that

are you fuckin kidding me? The only ones who have that are literally unity and gnome.
That's what I hate about all those other DEs. THEY MIGHT HAVE IT AND YOU MIGHT CAN CONFIGURE IT, but you gotta do every little piece of shit by yourself. I really hope that canonical makes gnome3 as beautiful as unity is right now

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>>61289692
>visual studio

The company I work for uses windows, and I develop apps for windows with Visual Basic at home. Also World of Warcraft.

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>>61298526
it's a repeating tile pattern just open the screenshot in any image editing program and drag a 264 x264 selection box anywhere in the purple sea of cubes and there you go

though I already did the work for you

>>61299264
>I develop apps for windows with Visual Basic
You're lying

>>61299319
Thanks anon.

>>61288676
Despite what's cool to say to sound like a nerd toughguy, Windows is by far the most compatible OS for doing generic work/gaming. I waited for Linux to catch up, decades later its proven it won't. Too bad.

>>61288873
Doesnt it run very well in wine?

>>61288961
Firefox for most things
Chrome for things Firefox doesn't work with (youtube and browser games for example work much better in Chrome)
Edge and IE because you can't get rid of them.

>>61291962
>>61298526
Hey, I used to have that background too. It's from Autodesk Inventor. A lot of these make good backgrounds.
http://www.atmstl.com/irfan/AutoCAD%20-%20Irfan/ASD2k14_x64/x64/ASD/Program%20Files/Root/Inventor%20Server/Textures/surfaces/

>>61299567
neat shit

>>61299567
Wow, this is great stuff. Thanks a bunch man.

>>61288871
>the other option is 'lmao desktop icons'
Not on Linux. I just press the search key and then type in the name of what I want.

>>61291962
>the ability to completely disable anti aliasing
You can do that on Linux. Plenty of people even just man up and use raster fonts for everything. Take a look at your starbar though. Looks pretty AA'd to me, dipshit.

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>>61288676
Games and proprietary photography programs. Everything else can be done on a linux laptop.

>>61297011
>>61297194
LMMS is pretty shitty but FL studio is absolutely fucking awful. Embrace the Unix philosophy and instead of getting a fake WM to wrap up all your VSTs, just use them normally. You can use Ardour, or you can use a digital sequencer, hydrogen, and a midi editor with your VSTs and have a real DAW that you've rolled yourself so your shit doesn't sound like trash.

>>61299496
>decades
Kek, no you haven't. You haven't been alive for decades, you stupid 12 year old with a CoD addiction.

There are more Games for Linux on steam alone than there are for PS4. Muh gaymes doesn't work anymore.

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>>61289425
bitch dis my keyboard

>>61300038
Kill
You're
Selve

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>>61299832
the current state of linux "gaming"

>>61299734
Why twenty workspaces though

>>61302001
At least there is a god-tier speed unit (km/h) instead of all those ""miles"" memes

>>61302158
>Kmph
>God tier

Lmao.
Furlongs/minute is superior in literally every way.

>>61299179
xfce has it though, when you use whisker menu, and you can easily change the default retarded hotkey for it to <super>.

Also in kde 4 and gnome2 era (xfce too) they had an application launcher which worked similarly to "run" in windows (windows+r) but had auto completion so technically it took 1 keystroke more than now.

>>61302001
kek

>>61288676
Being poor and not a coding ingeener

>>61289378
>using windows for live audio applications
i really hope you're joking.

>>61302001
More like the absolute STATE of gaming on loonix.

>>61292139
Any response to:
>>61295250
????

listen you dumb as shit microfuck employees not only that you shit up/v/ with your shitdos 10 shlling you do igt here too, We dont want our shit in /v/ and for sure not on our PC´s.

Fug off the compiling hell that spawned you.

This is a christian board!

>>61303305
>going on /v/
Kill yourself.

I have a win10 install for Lightroom and Acestream to watch F1 and MotoGP

Oh and BF1942 Desert Combat sometimes

>>61295250
Actually FreeCAD has most of those features on its own. FreeCAD can also export models to meshing (netgen or gmsh usually if you don't use SALOME itself) in other FEA/FEM programs like Code_Aster. Code_Aster is generally considered a full dedicated FEM/FEA system for mechanical/structural systems, and CalculiX accomplishes something similar as well and is integrated into FreeCAD. You can also use multiphysics programs like MOOSE or elmer to accomplish structural analysis tasks but I'd say it's very overkill since they're meant for meshes with billions of triangles and lots of domains.

For Rhino, unfortunately you're stuck with Blender, though I'm personally more used to Blender and I like the fact that EXR exports can be integrated into video editing programs (which, btw, on Linux, use kdenlive to edit but post-proc/composite in blender+natron). SolveSpace is good to replace inventor, though all I've ever needed was to export STLs and rarely need to make convoluted things, but FreeCAD probably could do that.

That being said, it isn't a good drop in replacement because their workflow is pretty counter-intuitive to well known programs.

>>61303933
Blender and rhino can't be compared blended has the same capabilities as grasshopper.

>>61304042
Ah. You're right. For some reason I thought the other way around. Though, FreeCAD can also do NURBs, STL export, and raytracing etc, etc., it probably isn't on par ATM and it's not suitable for direct migration.

>>61300038

Clean up you degenerate.

I get paid to babysit windows servers and bc muh games and powershell

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>>61299517
>>61289086
it works just fine in wine.
Looks like shit though, haven't figured out why yet.