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Microsoft is being sued by a man who feels cheated by the current plans to sunset Windows 10. He makes some good points, but I doubt he'll win.

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[-] 64bitrowlet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I mean I would rather use linux if I could get away with it. Unfortunately I have a lot of engineering programs on my pc that I know for a fact would definitely not run on linux which sucks I guess since I am stuck with windows. I thought about dual booting my pc but then immediately realized that is problematic XD.

[-] sleen@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

You can dual boot using separate drives. This has worked for me without any issues and I routinely use solidworks.

[-] 64bitrowlet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Stupid question. How did you do that without having the drives interfere with windows? When I have done that it massively screw up my windows boot somehow and it made everything weird. Basically I had to uninstall it because it was massively grating on my nerves what it was doing to my os. Basically it changed the time and date to a few decades in the future and I could not get around to fixing it. It also caused issues where I couldn't access certain sites online because of the issues I was having with my pc and the fact the date was so far in the future. Thanks!

[-] sleen@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I don't exactly know how the drivers didn't interfere as I have never done any specific fixes to it. In windows I've ran some debloating scripts but I don't know if that's the reason, as it seems more deeply rooted.

I have always dual booted from separate drives since I started using linux. I used Ubuntu, arch and finally settled on fedora. In conclusion, dual booting has never been a problem for me.

[-] 64bitrowlet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you! I hope this works when I get home XD

[-] sleen@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago
[-] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

You can try to put the engineering programs in dedicated snapshotted windows VMs and basically time-capsule them as a working tool forever that never changes and works on any machine.

[-] 64bitrowlet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Your right but that would have massive performance issues. I could definitely do that and that is not a bad idea but I also have a steam deck now for most linux things I do but yes you are right.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

GPU passthrough might help?

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