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Long time OpenSuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu user since '98 or so, but I still have two use cases for which Windows is the only choice: 1. Toshiba portable document
by blisterpeanuts 10y ago
Long time OpenSuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu user since '98 or so, but I still have two use cases for which Windows is the only choice:
1. Toshiba portable document scanner - works beautifully in Windows, less nicely in MacOS, doesn't work at all in Linux
2. RFID tag programmer - I need it for my work and the only stack that currently exists is the Eclipse JCOP debugger running in Windows. It's orphaned software. I wish wish wish I had a Linux (or even MacOS) driver.
3. Outlook Mail - for work. It runs on a Dell laptop stored on a bookshelf that I occasionally access using VNC. Otherwise would have zero use for that brick.
When equipped with LibreOffice, Eclipse, Android Studio, x11vnc, Emacs, VirtualBox, Audacity, Gimp, and a few other niceties, Linux is virtually unstoppable.
I'm having trouble thinking of things that Windows 10 can provide that Linux doesn't already have in a lighter weight, easier to configure form. Perhaps others can chime in here?
- DrScump 10y agoDo you then use 2 devices, 1 with dual-boot, or 1 with VM running the alternate OS within VM?
- blisterpeanuts 10y agoseveral devices: MacOS, Linux, and an Intel NUC running Win7. Easier to just have dedicated hardware for each OS for my purposes.
- viraptor 10y agoFortunately 1 and 2 can be solved by throwing money at it. There are portable scanners and RFID programmers which do work on Linux. Re outlook - why not run it in a VM if you only access it periodically anyway?