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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Emtity_13@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.

I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?

There’s oculus software for my vr but don’t know what I’m going to do with that

Small update: probably going to do Linux mint as that appears to be the most beginner friendly

Update two: that's a lot of comments, and Thanks for all the info

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[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
Software Linux support
AMD driver ✅ open-source drivers for CPU and GPU are included in the Linux Kernel and work very well. If you have bleeding edge news hardware, check online in which Kernel version they are supposed and choose Linux distro accordingly
Web Browser ✅ Chrome/chromium, ✅ Firefox. All are commonly available in your distro software repository by default, or otherwise with Flatpak
Web-based email ✅ not dependent on OS. Local Email client software are available, one exemple is Thunderbird.
Office suite ✅ LibreOffice, or anything web-based such as Google Docs will work independently of the OS
Itunes Many music players/library managers are available on Linux, I don't have any specific recommendations here, I am self-hosting Jellyfin for my music needs
JBL not sure what you mean here ? Your headset/speakers ? Don't see why it wouldn't work
Music score reader/editor ✅ MuseScore, I also use Guitar Pro (7, 8) inside Bottle (wine) and it works with some tweaks needed for fixing font bug
Antivirus ✅ ClamAV, arguable if you need an antivirus at all
Python ✅ many IDEs are available, a scary amount of Linux distribution rely on Python under the hood 😅
Remote desktop ✅ RDP protocol (many clients available), ✅ Rustdesk, ✅ anydesk, ✅ TeamViewer)
Game platforms ✅ Steam, ✅ Heroic Games Launcher (for Epic and GOG), ✅ Lutris
VPN ✅ OpenVPN and ✅ Wireguard protocols are supported (maybe others), you can find many providers using these protocols. Most ask you to use their app, but digging a little you often have options to configure the VPN connection without installing anything extra. I know Nord on client works on Linux, I haven't tried other. Mulldav is a very frequent recommendation in Linux communities
Windows games compatibility ✅ Wine/Proton via Steam, Lutris, Heroic and Bottles. The only thing that will block you is competitive multiplayer games with Anti-Cheat
[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There might be some cases even for single-player games where DRM platform-locks you into Windows but that's rare from my understanding.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't encountered this problem myself.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Like I said, it's rare especially for games, it's more common in productivity software though.....

cough Adobe... cough

The current standard DRM for the games industry, Denuvo, will work in Proton.