Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.
  • TheFonz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Can anyone give recommendations on what to do if you have to run Autodesk products (Revit. Autocad) for work? No, I can’t swap them for open source alternatives such as FreeCAD as Im working with large international projects. Should I dual boot? Virtual machine inside Linux?

    • ByteOnBikes@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Controversial take:

      If Autodesk products is how you make your money - Just use the OS your work provides you. Unless you’re a freelancer, of which that’s your work computer, and lock everything else down.

      Work computer is not my problem. Nor am I putting anything personal on there. Microsoft wants to mine my company’s info, let those two deal with that shit.

    • Nugscree@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Winboat, for when you absolutely have to use something Windows based on your Linux machine.

    • kyub@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      22 days ago

      In order of priority:

      1. Check for a Linux-compatible alternative
      2. Try installing/running it via Bottles (a veeeery easy to use Wine frontend, hiding lots of wine complexity). Wine allows running most windows programs directly on Linux, with almost zero performance overhead.
      3. Try installing/running it via winboat (basically WSL in reverse - a well-integrated Windows VM or container running on Linux so you can run pesky Windows-only programs with it) (haven’t used it myself yet)
      4. Use a regular full Windows VM on Linux (likely less well integrated and more resource intensive than #3, but maybe even more compatible). Set up a shared folder between host and VM for easy file transfers.
      5. Dual-boot Windows from another disk. Set up a shared folder/partition for file transfers.