In December I ditched #Windows11 and went feet-first into #LinuxMint. Frankly I got fed up with the #enshittification and #CoPilot-ization of everything Microsoft.
I use #AI on a daily basis. Both locally hosted #LLMs and LLMs from several vendors in the cloud.
But the last thing I want is an AI deeply embedded in my operating system indexing who knows what and sending my personal data to Microsoft's (or anybody's) cloud.
So it wasn't easy since I've got 48TB of local storage in my workstation, and they were all #BitLocker volumes, but it also wasn't terribly hard either.
Made sure I had the #BitLocker recovery keys for all of my drives, installed #Linux, then mounted each of my #BitLocker volumes one-by-one (under Linux (!)) and then migrated the data off, then re-formatted the hard drives as ext4 and set up #Luks #FDE.
But there were two pieces of software I missed. #3D software. And while I use Blender on a daily basis, this sofware only ran on Windows. And don't get me started, but #Wine is not an option for everything. Even bought #CrossOver and the software didn't work with it, either.
But today I'm proud to report I successfully got #GPU #PassThru to work with my #Windows11 #QEMU/#KVM #VM! So now I can run that software too.
So if you're on the fence about ditching #Windows, don't be. It's pretty fucking easy and only a little bit more complicated if you have something that needs your #GPU.
Fluxmind
in reply to George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ • • •Right there with you. Same point for point, except I dont use 3D software. Making due with Office365, Wine was never a solution. haha.
Good on ya.
George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
in reply to Fluxmind • • •Yeah I had to cancel my Microsoft365 subscription because of the CoPilot crap.
Got the sub through my Skype sub and then Microsoft went and cancelled Skype so either way the writing was on the wall. LOL
Fluxmind
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