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[–] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 113 points 2 weeks ago (35 children)

Bro, I'm so fucking close to removing Microsoft from my life

[–] philpo@feddit.org 17 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

From a gaming perspective: Get a new drive (NVMe/whatever your OS is on), drop Nobara on it, be done, have the option to switch back without a hassle if you need it for some special tasks or games.

And after 6 months find out that you never actually did that so delete windows/migrate it into a VM and enjoy the extra game drive you won.

That's at least what worked for 90% of my friends meanwhile.

The only person I know who routinely uses windows is myself- and I only do so,because I need certain MS Office stuff that I need for work. (And no,libre or Softmaker,etc. are sadly not a replacement for that. )

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wine was originally made specifically for running MS Office on Linux. Does that not work for you either?

[–] philpo@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No,sadly not, but I have a very special use case - user Information based access to files of external customers. They basically require a shitload of Azure,etc. Already takes a lot of work on Win, it is simply impossible with Wine. But again: A very special use case that even most Enterprise users won't need.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] philpo@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. This and CAD software sadly are the last things windows is really needed for me,sadly.

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