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[–] Technoguyfication@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This is my exact setup as well. I ran Windows on my laptop for years but Windows modern sleep absolutely ruined it for me. Placing my fully charged laptop in my bag on sleep and pulling it out completely dead 8 hours later is asinine. macOS knows how to sleep properly.

[–] eric5949@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Archlinux with KDE. I have windows 10 on a second hard drive but I boot into it idk once a month.

[–] peanut_koala@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Windows 11 for CAD and other stuff that's Windows exclusive. Would love to get steamOS off the steamdeck though, I used it as a temporary desktop and it rocked

[–] mbryson@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
  • Windows 11 on the main PC
  • Windows 10 on the HTPC
  • Linux Mint XFCE on my laptop

Part of the reason I steer to windows for main work/play PC's is due to the greater amount of support for the platform and the overall ease of use, however I've looked into various distros for the HTPC which would enable a more native "console" like experience than what I have now via it automatically opening Kodi and Kodi acting as a launcher for steam or playing YouTube, Netflix and Disney+ through the interface.

XFCE meanwhile for the laptop is to enable a familiar desktop environment light on resources (the laptop is over a decade old at this point) and efficient for when I'm at school or need the laptop for work purposes (like a presentation I'll have to give in the coming weeks).

[–] Naratetama@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Windows 11. It works better on my new machine even though I had to do extra steps to suppress the tracker and such.

[–] jatt@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What did you use to surpress trackers?

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[–] Rhinoceros@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Windows, because of gaming, otherwise I'd use a Debian based distro or Fedora.

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[–] Swintoodles@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Windows 10... I have Mint dual booted, but couldn't bother to make video games work on it and have used it maybe a few dozen hours at most. School had some fairly Windows-centric materials as well that made it hard to transfer over.

[–] rainercade@mastodon.ie 1 points 1 year ago

@tubbadu Linux Mint, everything I need for home is there the ONLY one I miss is amazing Affinity Suite. Incscape just isn't as good (but it's also free). I used to have a complex Excel home account tracking spreadsheet and I miss that too, but other than that nothing!

[–] zaktmt@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I main macOS currently. And use KDE Plasma on my Steam Deck and then I have another PC that was a Windows PC that I flashed Pop!_OS on. And I really like it. It definitely feels like a Linux and macOS had a baby. But I am curious about trying a different distro.

I have a decommissioned work PC with Windows for things like MS Access or whatever strange reason I need a Windows-only application.

[–] PunsNRoses@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Windows 11, mostly for gaming. I also dual-boot Fedora, which now that Proton is getting so good I am considering making the full switch over. Only thing is I have an Nvidia GPU :(

Windows 11 on my desktop for gaming. Manjaro Linux on my laptop for most other things.

[–] itsjxssica@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Desktop: Dual boot, Arch Linux / Windows 10 (cba to do the BIOS thing to update to windows 11) for games, FL studio and photoshop

Laptop: MacOS

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Debian, windows 10, macos and osx, 9front.

[–] Gormadt@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My main rig and my 3D printing rig are on windows 10, they would be 11 but I'd have to enable to the TPM on both to make it happen and I'm lazy.

My server is on Linux because server. It's currently running TrueNAS Scale and I'm thinking I might spin up some other things considering it's got 24 cores and 200 GB of ram it really should be doing more than just being a NAS.

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[–] chaoticPuppies@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Dual boot Ubuntu/Win10 on one, and dual boot Mint/Win7 on another. If I can secure a stable internet connection I will switch the last machine to a server.

I'm a CS major, so I need all the experience I can get. I prefer Linux machines because I think the OS is superior in a number of ways.

[–] OptimsticDolphin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

windows, I need fusion 360

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Artix Linux, cuz systemd isn’t minimal enough for my insanity, and I don’t have time to compile Gentoo rn

[–] grogg@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Switched from Linux to Mac 10 years ago. Runs well and I still have a nice terminal experience. Sometimes I do miss Linux package manager.

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