The list of reasons

hdr and mod organiser 2

Video games.

shitty anticheat protected games where the dev has specifically chose to block linux?

As an architect, let me know once Linux supports autodesk products and adobe products. Until then I gotta stick with windows.

Fusion 360
Cubase

Wait, there's something scrawled on the corner down here in crayon...
i'm lazy

I need to connect to my work machine with RDP and I tried using Remmina. Sometimes it works fine, but sometimes the special key stop working( ctrls + s will type s instead of saving) Also there are visual glitches on a second monitor. I had to switch back to windows.
Can anyone recommend a different RDP client?
- @Rusty @Kory Usually i using http://www.rdesktop.org/, but it is not actively developed now
  
  I'll try it, thanks.

Only thing are my files, that are pretty tricky to transfer securely while maintaining compatibility (i dualboot)

For me it's Nvidia tech, VR, and HDR, even if they're technically supported, they're much more of a hassle than on Windows.
- Funnily enough, I've seen opinions that Windows has awful HDR handling and Plasma is much better, but I don't have a proper HDR display to check. I've also had some success with VR, though I haven't played much on Linux. That said, support from software for those things for Linux is still widely lacking, so it's not much consolation.
- I have a decent list of software I need it for unfortunately so I'm keeping my best PC on Windows, but I have four PCs in the house. I've been running Linux on one of them for a couple years but the other two will be moved over by Windows 10 EOL.

Tax perp software was the only thing I needed it for in the last year. I haven't converted my gaming PC to Linux yet, but I don't anticipate an issue.

Msm flash tool, I need windows for this
- Msm flash tool
  If that's all you need. I bet you could just run it from WINE. I updated my PS5 controller using the PlayStation flash tool or whatever it's called. I used Bottles to do all the WINE stuff. Just installed the flash tool and it worked like it was Windows. Pretty shocked if I'm being honest.

I keep a windows LTSC install around purely for Escape from Tarkov. Everything else I play works great on Linux.

I side-loaded Mint for a couple hours just to goof around, and then . . . never booted Windows again, quite literally forgot it was installed three days later
- Sounds just like my last dual boot setup, as well.
  I believe I said "I'll just boot back to Windows next time I want to play...this game...that just launched and played perfectly under Proton...or...this other game...which also works...huh..."

I'm going to give you the secret to switching. Go all AMD for your build, and leave everything you know about Windows software and how it works at the door. Learn to use Linux. Expecting it and Linux software to work like Windows is the pitfall.
- To be fair. In my experience, everything mostly does work like in windows. But I always think it's like attributing Windows switching to Linux as Mac to Windows.
  Mac users are used to not dealing with the registry, lusrmgr, local group policies in the same way Windows users aren't used to dealing with fstab, grub, proton, wine, various desktop environment tweaks.

I feel like a stuck record saying this, but if there was a serious contender to Group Policy on Linux I honestly think Windows in the workplace would be dead in five years.
- Negative. Windows on Desktop uses vendor lock-in to maintain it's user base. It's been that way for nearly 30 years. People only think they are choosing Windows themselves. Anywhere Microsoft can not enforce vendor lock-in, Linux dominates. Even IoT, a brand new market (well it was brand new ten years ago), 80% dominated by Linux. Microsoft had to make Windows free for IoT and 9" or less devices just to try and be competitive. People only think everything is made for Windows, because OEMs are forced to sell a Windows license with every PC or lose their volume licensing deals. That means every OEM has to spend engineering dollars on Windows drivers, software, and testing. When your business has very thin margins, you can't afford to have second or even third engineering efforts for competitor OSes. Imagine how Linux would be if PC companies were spending engineering dollars on Linux for the last 30 years. Right now the money comes primarily from server sales money. If there was demand for Linux on Desktop in the workplace, there would be tons of competing FOSS Group Policy implementations.
- I'm convinced everyone on Lemmy works IT
  
  I'm convinced they all live in the moms' basement eating chicken tendies.
- What about YaST?
  
  I've seen YaST used at a distance and I think it's up to the job of managing servers and headless systems but, seriously, it's not even close to Group Policy. I not trying to sound dismissive of alternatives - I really do want a FOSS replacement - but it is hard to overstate how flexible and granular Group Policy is.
- For what it's worth, Ubuntu integrates ADsys, which allows for dconf updates through gpo templates. I've not heard anything on it for a while but the github repo was last updated 6 months ago

Valorante :(

Fan control. MSI after burner. Nvidia drivers.
Windows 10 gaming desktop
Mint laptop
- Fancontrol-gui, corectl, yeah nvidia drivers still suck but are improving.
  
  Yea and I just got gifted a 2080ti, so I'm gonna stick with windows on my stationary desktop. However my laptop does use Mint and that's my daily driver.

- Lmao stealing this
- Indeed it is brother... indeed it is.

I did it as long as gaming kept me there. Now I can play pretty much anything on my Linux machine. Forza fucked up. But whatever. It's a not a game to die for.

I'm so close to making the switch. I'm just a poor soul though who enjoys games with those annoying anti-cheats. Thinking about trying to do a duel boot just for those specific scenarios.
- Thats what I have. I suggest you take 2 different drives. Makes your life a lot easier.
  
  I agree, dualboot is something you shouldn't even attempt between linux and windows on the same drive. With some time, one, or both systems will totally break
  
  Yeah, windows does NOT like other systems on its drive, with separate drives it won't steal boot
- Just a PSA, The Finals is playable on Linux and is F2P with a very reasonable monetization (cosmetic only with some free cosmetic options as well) and the new season just began.
  For me it scratches that multiplayer itch because the destructible environments make matches feel very dynamic.
  
  How it's the community? I expect a good bit of toxicity with any online but if it's not flooded with kids like fortnite I'd assume it's not too bad.
  And what about the mtx? Is it aggressive or annoying?
- Definitely duel boot. I always like to keep my options open.
  
  duel boot
  Lmao Linux and Windows sitting there like ⚔️ ⚔️ ⚔️

When you're Canadian, European or basically not a US citizen, that alone should be enough reason not to use windows..don't give your money to greedy corporate overlords of a dictatorship

Fusion 360 for me. Freecads incredibly user unfriendly, openscad is missing functionality and performance, and blender isn't great for engineering modeling
- There are dozens of us. Surely someone can figure out how to port F360 to Linux, or make a functional clone
  
  I've been thinking about it, but it is a crap ton of work
- How about Onshape?

Unfortunately, my vr headset requires a piece of middleware that is not Linux compatible. But, by the time 10 LTSC reaches end of life, Deckard should be available for purchase.
Also, I'll need to re-pirate substance painter for avatar work, as GenP doesn't do Linux either.
- What headset? Most headsets work fine now. I had some issues with an old WMR headset (HP Reverb G2), but even Windows doesn't support WMR anymore so it's basically dead. Went with a Quest 3 eventually and it works great with WiVRn (ALVR works as well, but it's a bit more clunky).
  
  Pimax. Fantastic FOV, but wide and clunky, and the rest is just meh.

For me it is the malwares. Other platforms do not stand a chance against windows.
- Agreed, my malware collection would never be this big if I couldn't use Windows.
  
  "My collection of rare, incurable diseases! Violated!"
- Like you want a lot of malware? O.o
  
  Only cute ones :3

This ethereal concept titled “Work” is pointing a pistol towards me.
But yeah. Windows is trash. I’m going to go submit resumes and buy lottery tickets.
- Yup. Trying to get various work critical specific pieces of software working on Linux is just not a reasonable concept. Dual boot is the only option.
  
  I’m probably going to invest in some hardware to get powerful enough VMs.
  
  Are you guys using your own computers to work? I connect vpn and then remote desktop.
  I can't escape windows at work because my company uses all windows.

Audio production/editing. You can switch to mac but not to linux at the moment. Well, you can do on linux like 80% of what you can on windows by using Wine, but certain apps and plugins are incompatible right now. The one that holds me back is Izotope RX suite, which is a de-facto standard for audio restoration/clean-up, and it's all because of their drm (even the cracked versions have the drm merely bypassed, but it still crashes during the initialization, at least it was like that when I last tried it a couple of months ago).
- For audio editing, you don't need windows, neither linux, that's still the best on mac, but you need to be filthy rich
  
  Well, mac is the best, but windows isn't that far behind in this niche. And yeah, I'm not throwing away my Ryzen 7700/RTX3060 build and spending one fuckton on mac hardware just to get rid of windows, thank you
- U can use bitwig (native linux version) with https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge and cracked version izotope https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6656658 https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6575804
  Or ableton which works fine in wine nowdays
  
  I use Reaper, and Reaper itself works fine. It also has native support for Linux. I will try this specific cracked version of Izotope though, thanks. Hopefully I'll have better luck with this version than with the one I tried before

There’s plenty of software that is windows exclusive and has little to no Linux compatibility, although it is shit praxis, it is an argument to use windows

So, a few years back, when a good friend of mine tried out Linux mint, one of the main reasons he didn't stick with it wasn't even compatibility or anything (although he probably would have switched to a rolling release as someone who values cutting edge updates). But what ultimately made him return to Windows was something, I have been scratching my head on how to best handle it: The file system structure ultimately being too much of a change.
Now, of course, if you are used to it, I wouldn't really call it better or worse - definitely more suited to what Linux ultimately is. But stuff like, "Where are the save games of my paradox games? Why is so much stuff in my user directory? Why is there no unified directoy for all the stuff I installed (including everything they use), like Program Files, but everything is scattered all around into different directories? Why was the path to my save games hidden in a dotfile-folder?" were examples of hurdles, where the current answer seems to be "you just have to get used to it".
Now, I am not pleading to change the standard, there's good reasons for it. But are there good transitioning guides from Windows to Linux, that do a good job at explaining the structure of the file system? Because I remember, myself, only really getting used to it months into my Linux journey all those years ago.
- Ehm, your friend should really hold ma beer.
  Windows: ok, where files of program N? Let's check: C:/Program files? Or Program files (x86)? Why do I happen to see same program in both?
  Ah, Documents/N? Maybe. But empty
  C:/AppData/(or whatever that is called)...fucking_hell? With fucking invisible folders? Really?
  As to the actual question, I remember just googling the standard, got some idea back then. Now found https://linuxhandbook.com/linux-directory-structure/ should be good enough (I guess, being used to reading software docs does change views on what is good/bad and also builds tolerance to detailed descriptions)
- Why was the path to my save games hidden in a dotfile-folder?
  It isn't any better on Windows, but oh boy does this one piss me off.
  
  ~/.config/mygame — wtf, no it's not config ~/mygame — fuck off, the home folder is mine ~/.local/share/mygame — better, I guess? ~/.cache/mygame — absolutely not here ~/.steam/.../MyGame — still not great, but at least it's self contained
  
  Yeah, that one really isn't Linux's fault either, and both on Linux and Windows, it's always "exciting" to see which dev used which wild, new scheme for their config/save files.
- I'd LOVE a resource like that! I'm sure it exists but I never found it, and it is a silly thing to be hung up on but I just didn't properly understand the folder structure. I've still used Linux plenty but I'm dragging my feet on using it as a daily driver, but I'm VERY close to making the jump.
- I get this. If I wasn't already familiar and comfortable with OSX, I wouldn't have been nearly as confident switching over and knowing how to tweak things.
  Both NYC and LA have good ramen places. Doesn't mean I'm only a hurry to get on the 405 in a new car when I know the MTA map like the back of my hand.

CAD
- I mean I had my wild youth, but who didn't

I have to keep a spare bootable drive laying around for these muppet companies who only have firmware update mechanisms on windows, my monitor and thunderbolt dock being two that come to mind.
- Isn't firmware flashed with JTAG or from bios from a pendrive?

VR and steam, for now.
- Steam's primary platform is Linux wdym
- Actually steam games work well. It's non steam games and ones with kernel level anti cheat.
  
  Interesting. What about Epic? (I don’t like them but free games are free games and I have a lot)
- I palayed half life Alex on the Vive when it came out on popos. That said I tried to play it again about 18month later and it was broken; would launch but not load properly. Beat saber has worked for me very consistently, mods are hard to get going but it's possible.
  
  I’m using an outdated Samsung headset with the windows mixed reality portal. It’s UI is so far superior to Oculus I have I may repair it for another decade rather than upgrade.

Sometimes it is easier

A few months ago I installed windows on a spare SSD. It's only purpose was for modded Skyrim.
A few weeks ago I accidentally formated that drive. It was only mildly annoying. Then I remembered I was basically done with that playthrough anyways. The SSD still remains unformated XD
- "Accidentally formatted that drive"
  Someone is playing with fire.
  
  Yep, that's me. Wasn't 100% sober at the time. Self inflicted I admit. Not the first time, won't be the last XD

I play FFXIV a lot. On Linux, it seems that Teamcraft does not packet capture, so it won’t autofill my crafting/gathering lists. This is the only thing keeping me from swapping. Sure it’s a tiny thing, but it really helps when I’m just mindlessly gathering in the game.

I have one reason that I fire up a Windows VM once a quarter. I do the financial reporting for the local branch of a volunteer run non-profit. All of the reporting is done through an Excel sheet that is over 20 years old which is heavily macroized with VB Script. It doesn't run in LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Apple Numbers, Google Sheets, or even online in MS Office 365(!). It only runs on a locally installed copy of Excel running on a machine with a printer installed. We're working on moving to something better, but the people at the higher levels are incredibly resistant to change.

Yeah...., gamepass 🥲 the only thing that holds me there at the moment.

Soon™️

And it's getting blanker by the day

My works used windows only industrial software. I have tried it in wine but there are to many companion apps and the accompanying licensing issues.