• ɐɥO@lemmy.ohaa.xyz
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    1 year ago

    havent touched windows in like 2 years and only once had a problem with games not running

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      1 year ago

      I’ve just converted my last Windows PC, meaning my gaming desktop, to Linux, now I need to figure out how to run SOLIDWORKS on it … thinking a VM with GPU passthrough, but I’m a bit scared of the endeavor, despite having been a regular Linux user for I guess almost two decades.

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          1 year ago

          Eh good luck with that. SOLIDWORKS sits firmly at the GARBAGE rating on the Wine AppDB

          • Mio@feddit.nu
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            1 year ago

            SOLIDWORKS sounds like it works perfectly, or it is not living up to its name and you should get a refund.

            Use RDP apps to the cloud or something.

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        1 year ago

        I am using a 20gbps ssd with windows to go on it for my windows install so that when I plug in the ssd I boot to windows and when I restart and unplug I boot to linux, might be a solution for you?

        • Damage@slrpnk.net
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          1 year ago

          I have kept windows on a separate ssd, but I find dual booting very disruptive, I don’t want to reboot to change between tasks, I’ve tried it already in the past and it sucks.

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            1 year ago

            This is why I am unfortunately back on windows. I use a couple programs everyday, and unfortunately they do not run on Linux. And there is not a usable alternative either.

            I was rebooting to windows, doing what I had to, and then rebooting again. But it is just so disruptive and not user friendly.

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              1 year ago

              This ^

              I’ve tried dual booting multiple times over the last few years, but always end up with windows as the primary because restarting my computer 6+ times a day got so disruptive. Until the windows only software moves I’m going to be on Windows.

        • SirStumps@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I haven’t tried side loading windows to be fair. I was trying to move away completely from the windows environment.

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            1 year ago

            Perhaps I have misunderstood, but I thought there were some cases where you could use it for applications that aren’t games.

            But there’s a good possibility that I’m wrong.