This isn't even a joke or hyperbolic.

The last straw for me was when Windows kept overwriting my boot loader. Fixed it by blowing away the Windows partition. Thanks for playing, we have a lovely parting gift for you!

Me when I have to use Windows at work (I've gotten to the point of using WSL for as much as I can)

It's gotten to the stage (on the same hardware) where my Linux OS runs amazing, audio is perfect, and the nVidia drivers work great.. And so do the Windows games via Proton; while my Windows11 OS keeps getting buggier and the NVidia driver displays windows dialogs with garbled text or black zigzags inside dialogs.

There’s literally only one application I still need Windows for: EAC (Exact Audio Copy).

Everything else has a (often better) Linux alternative/version, runs in WINE or Proton, or can be used just fine in a virtual machine.

The best joke is when you install Edge on your friends Linux computer when they are not looking and they lose their shit. Like a war vet when fireworks go off.

People still out here not locking their screens?

Is there a loops app on f-droid yet?

Not yet

A good pdf editor is what I'm still looking to replace withiht having to deal with Wine. If PDFxchange made a proper Linux port, I'd buy a new license and migrate from windows.

Onenote is something id like a better replacement to because I hate it, but I haven't found a replacement despite trying several of the options. PDFxchange could be my replacement for that though if it was ported.

I just recently had to roll my Nvidia drives back (on Linux) because Marvel Rivals and other games just would not work/stuttered like crazy. Glad I have the option, but annoyed I had to do it in the first place.

Me at work every frickin day

Have you tried using LibreOffice Draw? It works pretty well for editing PDFs. Just make sure you have all of the fonts that the PDF uses before opening it.

I use Trilium Notes as my OneNote replacement at home. I don't use it religiously, but it's helpful for basic stuff and seems pretty feature rich if you need that.

I have. I forget why I didn't care for it, but I've tried a couple times.

I primarily use it with a drawing tablet to annotate PDFs during meetings. I've been shifting towards just directly using PDFxchange for the purpose though since it makes it easier to send after meetings and I can directly edit the pdf still. It just pops up with annotation bubbles when trying to draw on top off existing drawings, so that's an annoyance.

Whipper is supposed to be (almost) as paranoid as EAC? Its been years, so my memory might be faulty.

Me too, fam :(

5pm signals the end of my working day serving capitalism, but also i can go back to using FOSS

Double relief

Besides solidworks, there isn't anything I do that requires mf'ing windows. I could spin up a vm for solidworks. I hate it.

I don't just automatically lock my screen unless there age little people around.

I lock my screen when I'm home alone.

eww marvel rivals, those drivers are trying to do you a favor

i very much prefer separate boxes, but i do have one dual boot system, and i let windows do it instead of grub. it sucks, basically booting windows up just to get the boot menu to switch to linux, but hey. it works. even survived an 8->11 'upgrade' intact.

WSL was my gateway into Linux on my desktop. It's a real savior on my work laptop where I have to use Windows.

But Microsoft removed the "start Linux" option from their bootloader in windows 10 and higher when booting in EFI mode. Maybe you're still booting in CSM mode and you patched w11 to allow this? (W11 doesn't support csm mode)

I mean, my first 30 seconds of experiencing Windows 11 was watching a coworker wait for the file manager to open + render its toolbar, so I don't think I could've really come to a different conclusion...

You must have missed that the Windows version/implementation of SecureBoot ... and/or BitLocker... have had various NSA backdoors for years.

Thats why shit seems to keep breaking in new crazy ways: Whoops, that backdoor got found out, time to rollout a new one, via a Windows update, that can overwrite your bootsector, on its own, whenever it wants to.

They keep fucking with the bootloader and breaking most dual boot configs because they don't like the idea that they will not always be able to tap your computer via a secret warrant issued by a secret court.

You can't build in a backdoor as a reliable method of spying on people, because people who aren't supposed to know its there will figure it out in... not actually very much time.

There are very good reasons why huge chunks of the EU has their government agencies throwing out Windows.

Google locking down Android is the same thing.

Theres no way I'd ever be able to install that with our prison lockdown laptops.

Gotta teach em to lock their rig when they're not using it somehow.

Though I'm still a fan of the 'take a screen shot of the desktop and then remove the actual dekstop' approach.

... hrm... it probably wouldn't be that hard to make a version of 'hollywood' thats augmented by something like a cron job that just checks to see if its open or not, and reopens it if it isnt.

... the matrix has you ...

It's the smell.

It's the smell!

I haven't worked in the office in ages but I was good about hitting Windows + L to lock when I got up.

Only reason I don't is when my computer falls asleep the only way to wake it recently has been to reboot (pop OS)

I've been looking into this myself recently. EAC still seems to be the top option (followed by CUERipper/CUETools). CUETools itself runs under WINE, but CUERipper doesn't (at least for me). Haven't tried EAC on WINE yet.

https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Comparison_of_CD_rippers

It overwrote my luks master keys and that was the last straw. The bootloader installed to multiple data drives was just icing on the cake.

I've had the same dual boot configuration since around 2018 and this never happens to me, yet I keep reading that it happens to others. I really wonder what I did differently.

I am looking for a PDF editor which has support for digital signature. There are some which perform add a gpg signature, but clients want to see the green tick that Adobe provides. That's why I have a internet-less Windows 7 VM having only Adobe Reader and Filezilla.

Doesn't it work under Wine too now?

I've never ran a dual boot setup but from what I read having windows and Linux on separate physical drives is what makes sure windows won't Bork the Linux boot partition

Nvidia GPU? I have a similar problem on Bazzite, though mine never seems to enter proper suspend (fan lights still on etc.)

Installing programs without needing a password?

Literally tried to install windows 11 for our office machines last week.

• installed
• extremely slow and laggy
• check process manager
• just takes 3.7GB to boot up
• Uninstall and install win10 IoT LTSC and debloat it immediately

unfortunately Linux isn't yet an option because of microsoft office.

Was it BIOS or UEFI?

This smelly smell…

Can confirm. I used Linux and Unix almost exclusively for about 20 years, and when I more recently had to use Windoze again for work, this is pretty much what happened.

Interestingly, the web 365 apps seem to work on Linux Mint, but I've not used them extensively, or on another distro. I did a migration from Win10 to LM last autumn, and I was genuinely shocked to find that web Outlook and OneDrive work on Firefox on LM. Confirmed that web Excel and Word worked enough to allow display and editing of documents - not an extensive test, but definitely worth a look. Obviously, there are still differences between the web and desktop versions, but it might even be possible to run them under Wine, but I have not tried that, and woudn't expect it to go too well tbh.

The web versions aren't really professional enough for office usage afaik (and we don't really "buy" microsoft products. And the web version doesn't work that way afaik)

He should be glitching and stuttering for the full Windows experience

same. but no solidwork. Just oracle databases being migrated into MS fabric.

fuck, we hate oracle's frying pan, so let's jump into the nearest (slightly cheaper) fire.