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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by WaxProlix on Thursday January 01, 2026 @04:10PM (#46458033)
There are plenty. I run only Linux at home but CAD software for hobbies (Fusion 360), most games that want kernel level anti cheat, some embedded DRM-enabled media, all sort of just fail. Other things, like GPU tuning or messing with your displays/drivers are harder than they should be. My Bluetooth earbuds just don't work with my Linux machines.
Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by 3eb7988a1663 on Thursday January 01, 2026 @04:22PM (#46458128)
Bluetooth is such a crapshoot for me, I feel like everyone else must be using the single blessed chip and forgot to share the memo.
Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by hollandheese on Thursday January 01, 2026 @06:28PM (#46459389)
Intel.
Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by smj-edison on Thursday January 01, 2026 @07:15PM (#46459774)
How did you get Fusion 360 running? I've tried multiple times but it always gets stuck at the installer.
Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by qwerpy on Thursday January 01, 2026 @10:31PM (#46461099)
I don’t think he did get it running. It’s one of my main blockers as well. Last time I tried I got as far as it starting up and logging in to their identity server via the browser, but the redirect back to the application didn’t work. Such a silly thing that prevents it from working. Why does a CAD program need to online auth, anyway? (I know the reason but it’s an annoying one)
Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by WaxProlix on Friday January 02, 2026 @08:03PM (#46471609)
As the other poster imagines, I didn't. I could write a blog post about the 3 days I spent with Claude trying everything, different wine variants, patched WebView2.exes, container types, x11 vs wayland, logging in on a vm and copying credentials, intercepting calls to and from the fucking web view, GPU pass through for dedicated vms using iommu and virtio, what a mess. I don't want windows on a hard drive but it's that or use my work MacBook which is kind of a non starter for obvious reasons at this point.

Funny thing is it worked on my old popos install and I backed it up... But a lot of the home dir wine prefix stuff was symlinks to var or opt or something which of course my dumb ass didn't backup. Monthly 60gb homedir backups without the one thing I wanted smh

Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by smj-edison on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:15PM (#46521272)
Ah, my bad, I misread your post :)