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Finally cutting the cord on Windows due to finally breaking free from the last bits of software keeping you there feels so good.
When those gaps in when you boot into that Windows partition get further and further apart until the day it finally happens. The day that you no longer remember the last time you booted into that Windows machine. The day you can finally let yourself be free.
For me the last pieces were Lightroom and Fusion360.
Did you find a good alternative to fusion?
I'm using Onshape which isn't open and all your files are public, super scummy really but its web based, quite capable and performs really well.
I gave OpenCAD a few shots but for me it crashes all the time on my setup.
@boboliosisjones @Boost what about FreeCAD, they recently released a big update.
I think I mixed them up. But I will have to look into it. It's pretty comfy with the web based part of Onshape though because I can fire it up anywhere on any device at the cost of my morals.
FreeCAD since it's gone to 1.0 has been my replacement and it's been quite nice to work with
It's got a bit of a learning curve because of some different workflow things but all in all I've been enjoying it
That's good to hear. I'm hoping freeCAD has a Renaissance similar to blender did the last few years that makes it competitive with the popular closed source tools, but it sounds like it's getting there.
I'd love to see it take off like Blender has recently, it's definitely on the right path as of late
Freedom is my top feeling too! I was so, SO miserable on Windows. Every task felt like a chore. Haven't felt that way on Bazzite once, even if some things take an extra step here and there!
Extracting files from xbox 360 discs is my last hurdle. Unfortunately linux systems won't let you have files with ~ in, meaning I need to do it on windows. Once I've backed up all my discs (completely legally) I can finally ditch that partition.
I'm pretty sure all the Linux filesystems I've ever used don't care about tilde. You might have to escape it or quote it if you're typing it into a shell, since the shell might try to replace it with your homedir, but I don't think the FS cares.
On my ext4 FS I was able to
touch me~owjust now with no issues.It's something to do with the extraction not liking it, when I run the same disc through the same program on windows it runs fine but doing it on Linux throws an error.
I don't know a lot about stuff, but is there a reason you're backing up the files off the disks, rather than imaging the disks into an ISO or something? I've never owned a 360 disk, so maybe there's some reason I don't know.
So I can play them on my modded 360