Linux is free and less wasteful on resources on the other hand.

▲ detritus 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Out of interest, what value do you think that a comment like that has, in a forum such as this? You're not likely to be informing people with information they're not already abundantly aware of.

Whereas the person you're responding to is adding value, for me at least. I am in what might be an edge-case position where I need to run software specific to Windows and, much more importantly run hardware that uses drivers which seemingly don't work on Windows 11 (I only learnt recently, whilst planning to finally 'upgrade').

I couldn't even begin to do what I do, ably and competently at least, in a Linux environment.

And I've had at least one laptop for general use running some flavour of Linux for about 16 years now.

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giancarlostoro 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe not you, but many times I am asked what my setup looks like, because I game on Linux which is not as problematic as it used to be in the 2000s.

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semiinfinitely 15 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

windows user ^

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detritus 8 minutes ago | parent [-]

Indeed, I'm fairly confident that I very specifically stated as much, as the fundamental underpinning of my comment.

You might be interested in https://www.reddit.com/ .

	▲	semiinfinitely 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		reddit user ^

▲ vunderba an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is, and if you can switch, it’s highly recommended. I have some pretty bespoke old RS-232 Windows software that was an absolute disaster to get working under Debian with Wine a few years back, so I (and others) might still need to keep a copy of Windows around.

▲ ihalip an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Might want to try again, Wine progressed a lot in the past couple years.

▲ thangalin 16 minutes ago | parent [-]

It works well, though its messages could use some TLC:

    libEGL warning: pci id for fd 31: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)

    pci id for fd 33: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)
    pci id for fd 34: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)
    libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
    libEGL warning: pci id for fd 31: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)

    pci id for fd 33: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)
    pci id for fd 34: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)
    libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
    libEGL warning: pci id for fd 31: 10de:1ff0, driver (null)

    0124:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 0313F66C, 0313F6DC 0313F674
    0124:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x1009 0313F66C 0313F6DC 0313F674) returning a dummy value (current locale)
    0124:fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation HEAP_INFORMATION_CLASS 1 not implemented!
    0124:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 0313F9D4, 0313FA44 0313F9DC
    0124:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x1009 0313F9D4 0313FA44 0313F9DC) returning a dummy value (current locale)
    0124:fixme:shell:InitNetworkAddressControl stub
    0124:fixme:richedit:editor_handle_message EM_GETLANGOPTIONS: stub
    0124:fixme:richedit:editor_handle_message EM_SETLANGOPTIONS: stub
    0124:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
    0124:fixme:win:RegisterTouchWindow hwnd 000100E0, flags 0 stub!
    0124:fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (7853A300) stub
    0124:fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (7B4F6BE4) stub
    0124:fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (79410E54) stub

	▲	dokyun 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		wine whatever.exe 2>/dev/null

▲ f-az an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can’t wait till Fable 6 can just decompile and reimplement old software like that.

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Filligree an hour ago | parent [-]

Great for the americans. What are the rest of us going to do?

	▲	lukan an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Use the distilled chinese models.
	▲	SirMaster 23 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Maybe get your governments and citizens to innovate and create their own instead of relying so heavily on other countries. I thought that's the direction other countries were trying to go.
	▲	farnsworthfusor 21 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Try Opus 4.8? It's just a language translation task. LLMs should be good at it.

▲ sharts an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

VMs were not an option?

▲ kazinator an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Unless it's some Microsoft version of Linux, of course, in which every keystroke you type performs a docker run ... or whatever.