this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2025
311 points (93.3% liked)

Linux

52732 readers
398 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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

(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] invisibleOcelot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Regarding oculus software: If you need the actual oculus software for some reason (say, if you're using a rift S) your only option is a windows VM with full access to your GPU (and possibly your USB controller), either via looking glass or single GPU passthrough. Both options are a little hard to wrap your head around and annoying to set up but I'm sure your favorite search engine can help.

As other comments have mentioned, ALVR and SteamVR are solid options of all you need is the "screen sharing" part.

[–] wwwgem@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

There are a lot of software alternatives depending on your needs and preferences. You may want to take a look here or there.

Linux is full of options to let you build the best system for you. That means you'll have to invest some time to decide what you want (starting with the distro). Moving to Linux is discovering a brand new world where it's easy to get discouraged and flooded by the freedom you're given.

[–] sunnie@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

for a remote desktop app that also works on ios there's Rustdesk. everything else already had great suggestions in this thread

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you have nothing to lose, ie. if you don't play anything with anticheat or you don't use any productivity software with crazy DRM platform-locking you into Windows, do it, switch over.

The bulk of all games will run in Proton or even vanilla WINE now and the minority that's platform-locked into Windows is anything that uses kernel-level anticheat, if you only play single-player games or even virtual board games like Civilization, those will broadly work fine in WINE/Proton and even in the case of the aforementioned Civilization, those games starting from Civ5 onward even have native Linux ports, but the Windows versions tend to perform better in Proton, and as for productivity software, there's plenty of alternatives to things like Maya, Photoshop, Lightroom, or Premiere/AfterEffects to choose from that isn't platform-locked anywhere, eg. Blender as a Maya alternative, Krita or GIMP as a Photoshop alternative, RawTherapee or Darktable as a Lightroom alternative, and KdenLive or Davinci Resolve as a Premiere/AfterEffects alternative.

Oh, and as for Illustrator, you have Inkscape as an alternative, and for Paint Tool SAI, you got MyPaint as an alternative.

As for a good distro to get you started, Debian or OpenSUSE seem pretty solid for beginners, and Debian Stable at least has a backports repo for newer software, and there's also ChimeraOS if you're building your PC into a games console.

Also, if you're looking for a good Foobar2k or iTunes alternative, Fooyin is great for that, and Whipper's a good CD ripper and basically an open Exact Audio Copy clone, although it's text-based. You could also use CUERipper in WINE as another good open alternative to Exact Audio Copy, which is proprietary. CUETools will work fine in Mono as well.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Emtity_13@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Jontique@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Adding to this, don’t use Norton or any other anti-virus provided VPN.

Mullvad works great and has an app.

NordVPN works also great. I use KDE and there was a plugin to manage NordVPN from the task bar.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What is this table from? Is it from some website?

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›