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Unfortunately, yes...

My first Linux install, I downloaded some tutorial from somewhere, can't remember where (maybe someone on IRC shared it 🤔... IDK, I can't remember), and this is litelarly what it said 😂.

You have to be prepared when installing Linux. Take a week or two off work or school and make sure you have the following things at your disposal.

• Find as many bootable floppy's and as many different dostro CDs as possible. Why? The boot floppy from Debian might work with Suse, but not the Debian CD.

• Make sure you have at least two CD drives and floppy drives at your disposal. The more, the better. Why? You'll probably burn out the first ones while trying to figure out which boot floppy goes with which distro.

• Have coffee at your disposal all the time. You're at the bottom of the pot? Pour that in your mug and put a new one on the kettle.

• Stock up on as many different kinds of alcohol you can find, preferably strong stuff. Trust me, you'll need it.

Lmao.. it hurts because it’s true!! Debug these windows stack traces in Linux, here you go!! Exception happened at 0xEBFCEBFCBEBXBDBBWBXBENEKWWLLWLFFMLW

How I learnt there are normal dot net runtime and Desktop runtime.

No, but it sure is annoying having to switch in the middle of doing something especially when you're working. (Also, there's that pesky thing that happened to me as well where windows doesn't play nice with the Linux boot partition and fucks it up) So there's always going to be a main os. If you're fortunate enough you can use an old laptop for windows. Or, if your computer is powerful enough run an windows VM. For me, Gnome Boxes offered a really easy to use experience of running windows. It worked out of the box, no special tweaks.

WSL enters the chat.

You can use Linux and Windows at the same time with WSL. Works extremely well for people who develop Linux but also need Windows stuff.

Mad Dog 20/20.

Honestly DRM is bad and should be rejected. That means no Spotify, Netflix or Denuvo.

Just find a build with it ripped out / worked around it and play offline?

Which version? 2007 runs just fine. 2010 requres some custom libs, but there are tutorials (there is also a patch that makes it an endless free trial). 2013 is not a finished product IMO, so I haven't used it all or tried in Wine. 2016... yeah, that's a PITA to get working. One thing I can suggest is go with the MSVC++ installer from this link and go from there. You might also need x64dbg, but I seriously doubt it.

What's "custom layout tables"? Anyway, I now only play https://typst.app card, because I don't use LO Writer anymore, only LO Calc for some stuff. Typst has a ton of scripting capability and granular customization, so it will probably beat your "custom layout tables" by a ~~mile~~ kilometer!

Typst is the future for document creation. Mark my words.

It's not exactly on purpose, but Wine is still missing a lot of hardware level translation, like native SATA for example, so... 🤷.

Not sure if you're going to like the route they'll be taking.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/autocad-webassembly

I bet AutoCAD will collapse either way if Microsoft decided to purge legacy components from the OS. Feel like the codebase hasn't changed since the early days and it probably depends on some APIs that have been there since Windows ME.

To be fair AutoCAD couldn’t be stable if AutoDesk built their own custom OS. It’s such hot garbage.

AutoCAD seems to be it's own worst enemy.

Better not be because I can't see an inch of sugar building up at the bottom so it wasn't made correctly.

Oh holy shit you're right! Badlands Booker! Total legend. I actually met him at an eating contest way back. Seemed like a really cool guy.

Both Linux and Windows can't run macOS apps.