@trinsec mac and linux have similar features to show the mouse if you want it.

@freemo Yeah, enable them. Those features are life savers! Well, sanity savers! Whatever is left anyway.

@trinsec I just increased the size of my mouse slightly and it usually works for me as long as im at my home computer... in sunlight on my laptop is another story though

@freemo There's a little software called YoloMouse. Could try that out. ;)

@trinsec @freemo Windows? What the....?

@sergeant @freemo I'm a gamer, still most convenient on windows. Plus my job. :P

@trinsec

I have yet to find a windows game I couldnt play on linux... and more often than not they play better on linux than on windows... there are some exceptions of course but they are getting fewer every day.

@sergeant

@freemo @sergeant I'm glad more and more games work on Linux since I do think that's the future. But not all do yet. Plus software I have to use for job.

@trinsec

any software your job makes you use will almost certainly run on linux, thats easy... a VM being the easiest solution, but then WINE works if you want it to feel more native.

@sergeant

@freemo @sergeant Nope, I checked upon it but Affinity Suite and Linux aren't compatible yet.

@trinsec

No they are.. when you run on a VM it is indistinguishable to the software from running on the OS itself... the only thing a VM cant do is if it needs access to the GPU, so its not a solution for games of things with GPU acceleration, outside of that 100% of apps are garunteed to work because it looks identical to the app to windows.

What they mean when they say it isnt compatible is that it wont run on linux directly.

@sergeant

@freemo @sergeant And let this software need the GPU... :P

What about just leaving my choice of OS alone? This isn't the first time we've had this discussion. :P

@trinsec

You are more than welcome to use any OS you want, as long as it is linux!

@sergeant

@freemo @sergeant Idiot. 😋

@freemo @trinsec LOL!

@freemo @trinsec True though. I used to have a complete Windows OS running on Virtual Box. But since there's no need to do so for me, I removed it all.
Linux is all I need.
(I'm not a gamer)

@sergeant @freemo If you want I could run Linux in a VM to placate you. 😋

But hey, I have a steam deck running arch Linux (which I still have to learn about but I recently got the dock for it so that should be easier). Valve did a great job with Linux/Proton support. But it isn't 100% yet but I'm eagerly following this development.

At the moment windows is still more convenient for me. But I'm sure that won't be the case in 10 years at most.

@trinsec

That would be a good start so i could begin the healing process and one day forgive you.

@sergeant

@freemo @sergeant Just for the record: you're still an idiot. 😋

@freemo @trinsec @sergeant you can pass through GPU to VMs these days

@freemo @trinsec @sergeant Yeah, I’ve been running arch for three years now with no issues, performance specifically for Elden Ring and Cyberpunk exceeded windows specifically. Only issue is the few games with anti-cheat, Apex Legends, Dead By Daylight etc- I run a second windows ssd just for these and some work that requires powershell.