If the proprietary CAD software is only offered on windows, You could always go with wine and install the application through that. Wine works well with most windows applications, only a few of them like proton drive is a bastard to install.
To clarify, as in setting a 1 billion dollar defense budget to traffic people into their head and tail relays in tor. But no government has had their head further up their ass to do such a batshit crazy thing.
I’ve personally started using KDE plasma shell version of fedora, its as close to being windows (in terms of technical functionality) without actually being windows. On top of this you have the fedora community, and in a time where access of information has gone to shit, you can be rest assured that someone will get to your question or you’ll find an answer to a question you may have on fedora.
I would say I’m fine supporting Microsoft by buying their laptops, I just don’t want it to be surveiled and capitalized off of through spyware in the OS. I suggest going used instead of new, reason being, you can get really good specs that makes the license practically free. My current laptop is a thinkpad E14, the previous owner loaded it with 40 GB of ram and a 1tb ssd with a ryzen 7 7730. I paid $400 for that machine. If you don’t mind going used with slightly older specs, maybe a haircrack or two, the payout is worth it.
I got a thinkpad E14 off of eBay for $400. There was a slight haircrack in the hinge, but it came with 40gb of ram 1tb ssd and amd ryzen 7730u I believe. I always recommend looking on eBay first, it’s likely you can find a $1000+ laptop for $400 like I did.
Yea I’m trying out tuta it supposidly is end to end encrypted. My hope is that I’ll take a look at it, and see if I like it. It does have RSA encryption so from my preliminary testing it is believable.
My god, yes. Just yesterday I stopped using duckduckgo since even that has now become increasingly infuriating with AI. I’m using this search engine with no AI it’s based on database queries and to go to a specific website there is a small tab you can use. I love it because now I get to appreciate and use textbooks (whereas i would have chatGPT’d it) because of how limited the queries are and the limited selection. It’s not like google where it dumps the most relevant information at the top, you have to search for it. Anyways, if you were wondering it’s called marginalia search.
I unironically said this in my group chat, “proton mail is becoming more and more sketchy as being a privacy focused mail service” just like how signal is becoming more sketchy as a instant message service. There are things proton mail does such as logging activity that shouldn’t be the case as a paying customer, and yet here we are. When I request privacy I want it to be private, as in don’t give my data to anyone. it seems for that to happen it must be community driven and decentralized.
Yea, I had a server with a nvidia GPU that was orginially on windows. I went with ubuntu, and the installed nvidia driver (when ubuntu asked to install any drivers) gave a horrendous aspect ratio that didn’t fill up the entire screen. I had to uninstall the driver to get it to work.
Came from windows laptop that I got about a year ago, before then I was running unironically chrome os. I liked chrome os for it’s Linux features. So when I did go from my Chromebook to a windows, it wasn’t as fun. I also didn’t like all the spyware on windows, and this was the time when I was removing myself from the internet as if I didn’t exist, So it was inevitable I would switch.
The only reason why I haven’t switched earlier is because I am a university student (currently in electrical engineering) and I was concerned that I would be given an exotic application that my laptop cannot support on Linux. Then I learned the majority of students have macbooks, so if it doesn’t work for me it doesn’t work for them too. That’s when I made the conscious decision to switch from windows to Linux.
Currently trying out fedora workstation, it is like the Mac os of Linux operating systems (and that’s a compliment).
I’ve been using fedora workstation for about a month now, you really can’t go wrong with it. It’s great for laptop, there are also ways to customize it to work with a desktop. I am running it on amd CPU/GPU, so i don’t know how well it works with nvidia and Intel, I know some distributions do a really poor job managing the drivers. I don’t use CAD, but I have done FPGA design and programming (C/C++) and it works great. Haven’t done much gaming, all I have is minecraft installed, I could imagine you can install steam on there as well. Hope this helps.
I used windows out of concern that my university may use an application unavailable on Linux (I’m an electrical engineering major) I shouldn’t have been since even if there isn’t, I could always use bottles/wine to get the .exe file.
I’ve been using delta chat for about a year now and I will say I really do like it compared to signal.
For one thing, email encryption (yes the fucking bedbug of the internet) is being used here, it’s decentralized, and just recently (on android) they’ve added phone calling functionality… fucking phone calling functionality on email encryption.
I’ll say signal isn’t any safer (in terms of privacy and security) than WhatsApp, and i had a revelation that all centralized messaging services aren’t any better than WhatsApp even the proclaimed privacy focused ones. I have two reasons for this: 1.) They have the option to flick a switch and monetize their entire platform, that includes selling data to data brokers and other individuals. 2.) Because it is centralized it’s easier for hackers to breach and easier for governments to get user data.
I’m not saying that signal is monetizing their platform, but compared to their decentralized counterparts, they have the option to do so. Delta chat requires building a new messaging service from the ground up, if they wanted to monetize.
My only complaint is, since it is on email encryption, I can’t receive SMS messages, so everyone would have to transition to delta chat (atleast if you plan to use a chatmail) to get the same network as before. You can also create an account using your personal email and send messages via email.