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What would it take for you to switch to Linux? (piefed.social)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I haven’t used Windows in over 20 years. I’m not sure what random things you’d need it for. In fact when I fix people’s Windows machines I oftentimes have to use Linux to do it.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    This is the specific example I was talking about: https://apps.nissan.navshop.com/en_gb/

    I'm sure it could run in wine if I was snarter or kept at it, but I tried it, it didn't work straight away, so I used the windows laptop because I wasn't in the mood to spend hours troubleshooting when I had the choice.

    I would be curious if it works for you and what your steps are as I do need to run it every 6 months or so to update maps. I use Nobara but also have Bazzite and Mint computers available if there's some distro oddity.

    Also if you know how to tell tomtom that my house in a quiet street that people crawl along isn't an 80kph zone that would be great 😆

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Have you just tried a VM? Or WinBoat (which is just a VM). You don’t have to use wine for everything windows related. Sometimes you can just use a VM.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    But there's a windows laptop right there 😆

    I'm asking as a learning exercise rather than because I desperately need to get it working on my machine.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I understand that. I just recently switched and just never even started my windows partition since. Makes it real easy to tell what’s important in my life.

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