• untorquer@quokk.au
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    3 days ago

    Solidworks/PDM at work. 🙄

    No it won’t be changing until Win11 actually breaks or dassault scraps PDM(actually as much or more of a trashfire as windows). I’ll just find a new career eventually.

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      3 days ago

      It took me a bit to figure out, but winapps might work for you. A couple of applications I use at work require me to have a windows VM, which is still way less of a headache than straight windows.

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        3 days ago

        Thanks for looking out but sadly it’s a company owned laptop administered by IT.

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          3 days ago

          On my work laptop I boot to Aurora Linux from an USBC caddy with an M2 SSD inside. The laptop’s internal drive is still factory fresh.

          Ask your IT guy, he might be cool with that. The laptop itself is unchanged. Windows OEM license untouched.

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            2 days ago

            I guess i haven’t thought much about live booting. I guess that could be nice for travel. Bring one fewer devices.

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              2 days ago

              Technically, it’s not live booting. It’s normally installed, just on an external drive. The OS doesn’t feel the difference. You just chose to boot to it from the BIOS. I set it to always boot to Linux by default and Windows as a fallback.

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            3 days ago

            Glad you have a cool IT team. As an IT guy, I also want to remind people that if you don’t ask, the answer is automatically no.