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Screw it, I’m installing Linux (www.theverge.com)
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[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve been using Linux as my daily driver for over a month. The only thing I miss are some old windows apps that I’m too lazy to troubleshoot in Wine.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

I’m too lazy to troubleshoot in Wine.

I've been daily driving Linux for about 3 years now and one major tip I can give is to avoid using non Linux apps as far as possible. When I started with Linux I also tried to get windows apps running on Linux, but this, at least as far as I remember, never worked the way I wanted ans always caused more troubles. Currently I'm at a point where I dont even know when I used plain wine (I am not counting proton) the last time. It has been 2 years at least. I Am using native Linux apps for everything I do. Much less trouble shooting, no need to learn wine additionally to the command line and much less prone to breaking because of an update.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 points 4 hours ago

Yup. I've been daily driving linux for about 22 years now, and seeking solutions to what I want to accomplish was[/is] a much more enjoyable exploration than trying to wrestle the square peg in the star shaped hole.

It's the free software (free as in freedom), not the "can I get this proprietary software for windows to run in linux". Best to understand this and make that leap. Then life gets so much better. The more of your software that affords you (and everybody) the 4 freedoms of free software, the better.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

This is the right approach but IF you must and IF you have decent computer, try Winboat

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What if you run windows apps through proton

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

Havent done that (except for games ofc)