Any good tools for switching?
Are there any good tools for listing your current programs, maybe exporting settings etc. Listing hidden settings and save locations would be great too.
I'm about 90% ready to switch to Linux full time, and I want to make sure that I've got everything. I've got a horrible feeling that I'm missing something, but I can't think what it might be.
EDIT: Ironically, I forgot to mention my ADHD / memory issues. I could do with a tool like this because I forget about anything that I'm not currently using, or actively thinking about using soon >.<
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Dual-boot, and if anything is missing, boot back into Windows to do that while you work on figuring out how to do it on Linux. There might be something to do what you're asking, but I find it unlikely because Windows and Linux are very different internally.
That's what I'm doing at the moment, but I find myself staying on the OS I'm using until I'm forced to reboot to the other for whatever reason. e.g. If I boot to Windows for Photoshop, I tend to start browsing and checking my emails, and the next thing I know, it's three weeks later and I've forgotten to switch back >.<
Setup a Windows virtual machine inside your Linux environment. Now you're not leaving Linux to get into your Windows environment.
Does Photoshop run properly in a VM? That's the most resource intensive program I use regularly
What do you mean, what do you think is so special about Photoshop? I play Starfield on Ultra on Windows inside Qemu/KVM virtual machine on Linux.
It tends to be one of the most regularly mentioned reasons for staying on Windows. It can't run natively, and whenever I've read about Photoshop in a VM, it's been from someone saying that the performance is awful.
Don't misunderstand me, this is one case where I'd love to be wrong. Photoshop is probably 99% of what's keeping me on the dark side. Being able to use it in Linux without a major performance penalty would be fantastic :)
Yes, if you run a non optimized VM everything will be slow. It took me few weeks at start to discover all optimisation options for qemu/kvm and then years of perfecting it to make it run very close to bare metal
Edit: the key is to pass through one of your graphic cards
Does that mean I need more than one graphics card? I've just got the one.
Depends, does your CPU has already one?
It doesn't, no. I've got a micro ATX motherboard too, so no room for a second one there
I haven't found a program that gives me problems when I run it in a VM, but I haven't run Photoshop in it, and I only spool up my Windows VM a couple times a year.
Last time was to run some janky-ass software to program an oddball Chinese UHF radio that was unsupported by Chirp.
Set Linux to be the top of the boot order, then :)
That would assume that I reboot occasionally ;)
Weeeeell
Incremental approach when the task seems too big to grasp. I agree!