• propter_hog [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I don’t necessarily miss it, but the primary reason I can’t use Linux as a daily driver at work is because our VPN doesn’t work on Linux. So I’d say that. Stupid as fuck that our IT department uses Linux for all of our servers but makes us run Windows.

      • propter_hog [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        25 days ago

        It’s a Cisco AnyConnect doodad, but it checks your computer for compliance first before allowing you to connect, so beyond spoofing a valid system, I’m out of luck. And I’m not about to lose my job due to spoofing a windows box, haha.

        • WFH@lemm.eeEnglish
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          25 days ago

          I’ve successfully used Anyconnect for years in a dedicated Windows VM. However I only used it to connect to a Remote Desktop so performance was a non-issue.

          • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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            25 days ago

            The key there is the check for compliance. They probably have an MDM or enterprise thing that ensures only approved apps are installed and all, and only then it issues a short lived certificate used to log into stuff.

            The protocol itself is likely supported by OpenConnect but you’d have to actively circumvent IT’s systems to make it work and thus a very bad idea.

      • propter_hog [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        25 days ago

        Well, I’m am confident it would run on my machine, but how would it do in reporting machine compliance? Because that’s the part I can’t get past.

    • TTimo@lemm.ee
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      25 days ago

      Honestly there too. I dual boot between windows and linux for some work stuff, and on windows I find myself thinking “how do people tolerate this shit?”. That’s often when deleting a large folder or uncompressing an archive :)

      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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        24 days ago

        What’s so hilarious to me are the animations that go along with deleting (or moving) a large folder. The old animation was just a file flapping its way from one destination to another. When Windows 7 came out, there were zooming icons with lens flares! I was like “What’s next? A dancing frog?”

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    25 days ago

    Really good image noise reduction software.

    That’s pretty much the only thing I miss, and I don’t miss it enough to suffer through Windows

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    25 days ago

    Fusion 360 :(

    Yes i know theres wine versions But they just dont work the same. And randomly crash.

    Yes i know free cad exists, but it feels so clunky and is so much diffrent than fusion/inventor

    • the16bitgamer@programming.dev
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      24 days ago

      I 100% agree, and have Fusion360 in my VM. But there is a method to FreeCAD’s madness and once you get it, FreeCAD begins to make sense.

      I found it hard to go back to fusion especially with the amount of control I had with my designs.

      Also FreeCAD V1 is out, and it’s a marked improvement over their previous releases. Might be worth a try.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I missed Odin 3 for a few years until I switched to Graphene and never looked back. In tried the FOSS package it didn’t work for me and the documentation was beyond my skills at the time.

    I miss the stupid people comradery, sometimes. People act funny when you’re a normal stupid person and use Linux without the hoodie and a Matrix screen saver.

  • Jiří Král@discuss.tchncs.de
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    25 days ago

    Ae you sure Linux doesn’t support shared GPU memory? I mean if you had an integrated GPU with no strictly reserved memory which is fairly common the GPU has to share the memory with rest of the system. There’s no other way for it to even function.

  • thejevans@lemmy.ml
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    25 days ago

    When I was using Windows, I used Adobe Lightroom with the Negative Lab Pro plugin to digitize my film negatives. I’ve played around with Darktable, and it does the job, but it’s a lot more fiddly, and it discourages me from processing film.

  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    25 days ago

    Coherent theming, although you’ve hardly had that since Windows 98.

    I’ve applied themes to make Xaw, Qt, and GTK software more Motif-like, but the GTK ones seem spotty and the Qt theme doesn’t work for Qt6, and fonts are inconsistent.

      • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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        24 days ago

        I tried pulling in the theming from there, and while it works miracles, I still want to do the three-headed dragon meme:

        • Real Motif apps
        • Qt5 apps (where there’s a Motif-like theme baked in)
        • GTK apps, which don’t honour the same fonts and the theme is far more divergent from the “real deal”

        There are a few other “Solaris 9” and “Perl Tk” lookalike themes that also come close, but they’re all sabotaged by GTK’s lack of bitmap font support (The old bitmap Helvetica is my go-to UI font)

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    25 days ago

    I moved to Linux over 25 years ago and I miss absolutely nothing.

    The joy of not having to update your OS when Microsoft forces it, even whilst you’re working, or the way Apple still cannot do window tiling despite decades of examples on how to achieve this, or installing applications and finding files splattered all over the file system with no way to remove them except manually, or the endless user agreements, licence fees, expiring licensees, or the notion that you cannot run a new OS on an old machine that’s in perfect working order.

    So, no, it was the best decision I’ve made.

    I wish that I’d made the same good decision when it comes to my accounting software.

    • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      Can you please “installing applications and finding files splattered all over the file system”, please kind person?

      How does Linux do it better?

      • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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        25 days ago

        Central package management.

        When you install a package, it keeps track of all the files so when you uninstall it, it removes them all. There’s various ways to scan and remove untracked files, but on a Linux system you can basically be ask it “where does this file comes from?” and it’ll just tell you “oh, that’s from mpg123, and you have it installed because VLC and Firefox need it to decode some AVIs”. And if you really don’t want it for some reason, it can also go uninstall everything that needs it too.

        It makes it pretty hard to corrupt a system or uninstall important stuff. In the reverse, it also knows what is needed, so if you install VLC, it will also install all the codecs with it, and those are also automatically available to other apps too usually.

        • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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          25 days ago

          While that is true for the files that make up the programs themselves and their dependencies, it’s not true for any state files or caches that programs creates at runtime. You need to clean those up manually.

        • superkret@feddit.org
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          23 days ago

          When you install a package, it keeps track of all the files so when you uninstall it, it removes them all.

          lmao, do a ls -aR ~

      • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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        25 days ago

        It has. I use it everyday. It’s shit. Apple keeps moving windows to different desktops without user interaction, I can’t snap windows to each other, full screen takes over a whole desktop and ESC inside such a window puts it back to some random state.

        Better Touch Tool did a better job a decade or so ago.

        • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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          25 days ago

          full screen takes over a whole desktop

          and creates it. It’s a whole new workspace just for putting an app in fullscreen and none of the shortcuts to jump to workspace x work with it of course.

          The rest of the WM can be made bearable but there’s no way around that stupid design choice.

            • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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              24 days ago

              I’m not sure what you mean? It’s a basic feature of the macOS window manager. Pressing the fullscreen button on a window does all of this.