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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

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i'll upgrade to some baby Linux distro once the end of life hits, i am lazy
(i'd also need to set up a dual boot as i'm cursed to need Adobe apps and those are famously allergic to Linux)
- Don’t do dual boot. Windows will purposefully fuck up your MBR so Linux disappears every update and it’s a bitch to fix.
  Run that shit in a VM. It’s 2025 you will get good performance.
  
  nope, adobe apps are allergic to VMs too, less so but still. believe me i'm not hyped about having a whole dedicated OS just so i can run 4 programs, but dual boot is my only option
  since i'll set all that up past end of life for win10 i won't be getting any security updates so i can safely just disable that option altogether, which will hopefully make the two OS coexist peacefully
  
  I think the dual boot problems are generally associated to using the same drive. If you have one drive for each you can use BIOS to control boot order instead.
  
  That's been my experience as well. Dual boot, separate drives. Never had Windows touch it.
  
  Yes 100% this is the problem. You can even add a redirect to Grub / systemd-boot to load the Windows bootloader from the other drive example for systemd-boot.
  Does not work with bitlocker though without diving into very advanced settings to control which events are considered insecure so the tpm releases the keys.
  
  neat! i do hope i'll have saved up for a proper PC by then so having two drives won't be much of a hassle (currently i have a laptop)
  
  Many laptops support a second drive
  
  i feel oddly unsafe when my entire digital life is running from an external drive. backups sure, but the main thing? makes me nervous
  
  Many laptops support a second internal drive.*
  
  :0
  
  It's a little like surgery but much easier than removing your own appendix (depending on the laptop).
  
  my current laptop surgery experience is unscrewing all the bits around the fans to give them a good wipe from the dust, and replace thermal paste, that sounds like next level!
  
  so whats the solution about adobe product,
  are there any alternatives to use on linux?
  
  of course there are alternatives, but they are all compromises, here's a couple of reasons why:
  Adobe aggressively patents every new feature they come up with, so every other software has to reinvent the wheel each time
  adobe has a huge head start with the software they already have & they make bank on the subscription model so the development (though subpar for how much money they make) is constant and steady
  to replace say photoshop you need more than one program. photoshop is a beast, it's RAM hungry but for a good reason, you can edit photography, draw traditionally, paint with oils, watercolours, do calligraphy, do pixel art, create collages, do photo manipulation, create designs, fill out digital forms, make your file into an editable pdf, sketch, hell you can even animate if you're feeling masochistic! you can bascially change any image into any other image you can possibly imagine, it's incredibly versatile and powerful. other software focuses on niches (because they can't afford to try to compete with adobe), doing one thing but doing it really well, no single program can challange photoshop, even if the main feature it offers is better than what photoshop can do. same goes for After Effects, Illustrator, and i'm sure others but those are the main ones i use (Premiere Pro recently-ish got outmatched by Davinci Resolve which is a huge win)
  if you plan on making money with your art you're basically required to at least be competent working with Adobe apps, it's the industry standard, and it's not looking like that's going to change any time soon. look up any digital drawing course, 80% are going to use photoshop, 15% procreate, 5% krita, corel, and other software (disclaimer, those numbers are vibes based and do not reflect the actual %s)
  so yes, there are alternatives, but there is no photoshop-but-different-brand or after-effects-but-we-rearranged-the-ui. To replace one Adobe app you often need several programs which slows down the workflow significantly
  
  I've been dual booting with Grub for a year now and the only issue I ever had was accidentally installing Grub to the wrong drive at first
  Maybe it's because I run the LTSC IOT version but so far I just pick which OS at boot and go, defaults to Linux after 10s of inactivity
  
  Yeah grub with 2 drives, one windows, one linux. No problems at all.
  
  Switch to GPT, makes Things easier. You can do that from inside Windows without Reinstall or anything. Also Install Linux in another Drive, then you got No issues.
- I switched to endeavour-os last September.

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