This is a similar situation to mine. I tried running Linux on my work laptop, ran into too many issues that made it unreliable. Especially during business trips, when I really needed my laptop to work.

Not to mention that I still needed to use business tools that are only available on Windows. Redacting and signing PDFs in Acrobat, creating images for Windows machines (I’m also the IT department), Autodesk software, etc.

Windows + WSL allows me to get the best of both worlds, with all my Linux apps running alongside my Windows ones on the same hypervisor. I just wish they would support PCI device passthrough, as part of my job involves writing and debugging kernel drivers for some custom FPGA accelerators.

Internet Archive Duplicati (FOSS backup software)

• various other small open source projects

Half-Life 2

I’m too young to have played the original as a kid, but I have fond memories of coming home from school to play HL2 on my shitty laptop.

Update the drivers on windows and see if the latest version supports it

Or

Install WSL or a VM and pass the device through to linux, let the kernel find it and activate the drivers, configure the network, then set up routes to share that connection with the host.

You could have definitely gotten a longer interface name for that one example. enp0s31f6mon might be a good one lol

I truly do think this is a cool feature, but after seeing all the comments saying stuff like “now there’s ZERO excuse not to use Wayland!”, I felt like it was appropriate to share my perspective as a professional user who uses their computer a little differently than a FOSS enthusiast or hobbyist/casual user. I’m not getting paid to go around submitting bug reports and making PRs, so when things don’t “just work” it can be a big issue.

I’m talking about FOSS software incompatibilities, I don’t have any expectation for mega corporate apps like Discord and Teams to adopt it. Those are a lost cause, I just use the browser versions and pray.

I truly do think this is a cool feature, but after seeing all the comments saying stuff like “now there’s ZERO excuse not to use Wayland!”, I felt like it was appropriate to share my perspective as a professional user who uses their computer a little differently than a FOSS enthusiast or hobbyist/casual user. I’m not getting paid to go around submitting bug reports and making PRs, so when things don’t “just work” it can be a big issue.

This is cool, but half the software I need to use still doesn’t work on Wayland for some inexplicable reason.

I know this is the responsibility of the software maintainer to fix their compatibility, but as a business user I don’t have time to go around filing detailed bug reports and waiting for the next release when it’s fixed.

The solution for me is to switch back to X11 and move along, then in another year I try Wayland again after installing a new distro. After a few hours I find something that isn’t working on Wayland, rinse and repeat.

This entire article is a nothingburger from 3 years ago. You’re telling me that the button saying “ask app not to track” still makes it possible for the app to track you? Almost like there’s a difference between the words “ask” and “enforce”? Did you read the article you sent? How is that even in the same universe as installing a keylogger into every Copilot PC by default?

I never claimed Apple is perfect at privacy, I said they are better than the competition.

Apple also has a MUCH better track record relating to user privacy over pretty much every other big tech company.

The prompt on the desktop that says there and pending updates that can only be installed with Pro.