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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 02:03:18 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

   So on the plus side (albeit an epsilon that rounds out in real terms) I’m now even more motivated to try to make Linux work for me on the desktop, eventually. I have some near term practical issues so it won’t be tomorrow. But goddamn, the quisling princes of the big tech industry, spineless bastards to a man that they are, have made it abundantly clear that they are not fit to govern our technological lives. Arguably that’s been true for a while, but it’s clearer than ever. Time for punk tech

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     Jeremiah Fieldhaven (jeremiahfieldhaven@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 02:08:11 JST Jeremiah Fieldhaven

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     @sinbad Yup, there's a handful of things that I use windows for as my primary, but I'm eyeballing CodeWaver's Crossover and plan to test whether it handles things like excel and word (which I need for work - the web versions don't cut it), and Lightwave.

     If I can get that list down low enough, Windows is going in the bin.

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     Jon Stevens (jonstevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 02:12:14 JST Jon Stevens

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     @sinbad as soon as the RAD debugger works on linux, I'm making the switch.

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 02:15:27 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     • Jeremiah Fieldhaven

     @JeremiahFieldhaven I basically have 3 blockers:
     1. UE is worse (slower, flakier) - may get better?
     2. Affinity doesn't have a Linux version (apparently works in Bottles, don't know how well)
     3. Excel. Needed for important spreadsheets, although I've used OpenOffice & Numbers in the past, nothing has worked as well. At the least I'd have to rewrite a custom plugin we use for some finance stuff

     It's not impossible, just a pain, and I have other things to do. But I'm pissed off enough to try

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     Calicoday :gamedev: (calicoday@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 02:22:58 JST Calicoday :gamedev:

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     @sinbad I REALLY need Epic to make a bold, aggressive move to fully support not-Windows. Linux and Mac would be best but at least one that shows they're not just going with the flow! I wake up everyday wondering if that's the day I have to move to PC or abandon gamedev. 😿