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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.

I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?

There’s oculus software for my vr but don’t know what I’m going to do with that

Small update: probably going to do Linux mint as that appears to be the most beginner friendly

Update two: that's a lot of comments, and Thanks for all the info

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[–] muhyb 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

iTunes just doesn't work even for really old ones for just to put some music on iPod. Haven't tried with Wine 10 but I don't think that's changed. This is the only reason I keep a Windows VM with an old iTunes in it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is exactly way proprietary stuff sucks !

[–] muhyb 1 points 4 days ago

Indeed. I hate it. But gotta keep it around until the device is dead. :/