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Thinking on switching to linux (lemmy.sdf.org)
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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

  1. emacs

  2. emacs

  3. emacs

  4. emacs

  5. emacs

  6. emacs

  7. emacs

  8. emacs

  9. vim

  10. emacs

  11. emacs

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  15. emacs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Like… how. Or is that part of the joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean, he's joking, but:

AMD Drivers: yeah, this one's not a thing

Chrome: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/EWW.html

Gmail: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryMail

Office 360: https://orgmode.org/

I-Tunes: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/itunes.el (although this one probably doesn't work)

JBL: I have no idea what it is

Muse score: https://github.com/piercegwang/staff-mode

Anti-virus: I don't know of any, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone listed a plugin for checking files

PyCharm: This is the one he said to use Vim

Remote desktop: Emacs can natively open remote files or directories

Star citizen: obviously not

Steam: Obviously not, because it's proprietary, I really wouldn't be surprised if there's a GOG plugin

VPN: https://github.com/anticomputer/ovpn-mode

There's some truth to the joke that emacs is a very complete Operating system.