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[–] 22 points 7 months ago (15 children)

Gone from Windows to Ubuntu based to Fedora based to finally an Arch based distro with CachyOS over the last couple of years and I have never once regretted making the jump.

Especially since I still have a windows install that I use for a couple of very specific uses that I can't do on Linux and it's a pain in the proverbial every single time.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 7 months ago (14 children)

    Finally cutting the cord on Windows due to finally breaking free from the last bits of software keeping you there feels so good.

    When those gaps in when you boot into that Windows partition get further and further apart until the day it finally happens. The day that you no longer remember the last time you booted into that Windows machine. The day you can finally let yourself be free.

    For me the last pieces were Lightroom and Fusion360.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Did you find a good alternative to fusion?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I'm using Onshape which isn't open and all your files are public, super scummy really but its web based, quite capable and performs really well.

    I gave OpenCAD a few shots but for me it crashes all the time on my setup.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    FreeCAD since it's gone to 1.0 has been my replacement and it's been quite nice to work with

    It's got a bit of a learning curve because of some different workflow things but all in all I've been enjoying it

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That's good to hear. I'm hoping freeCAD has a Renaissance similar to blender did the last few years that makes it competitive with the popular closed source tools, but it sounds like it's getting there.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Extracting files from xbox 360 discs is my last hurdle. Unfortunately linux systems won't let you have files with ~ in, meaning I need to do it on windows. Once I've backed up all my discs (completely legally) I can finally ditch that partition.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm pretty sure all the Linux filesystems I've ever used don't care about tilde. You might have to escape it or quote it if you're typing it into a shell, since the shell might try to replace it with your homedir, but I don't think the FS cares.

    On my ext4 FS I was able to touch me~ow just now with no issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    It's something to do with the extraction not liking it, when I run the same disc through the same program on windows it runs fine but doing it on Linux throws an error.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah it's the program, ~ is not an issue in filenames, Vim even uses it as a character in the temp file it creates when editing a file. Is a VM something that could work for that specific usecase? I know I have one just to upddate my logitech devices

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