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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.

I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?

There’s oculus software for my vr but don’t know what I’m going to do with that

Small update: probably going to do Linux mint as that appears to be the most beginner friendly

Update two: that's a lot of comments, and Thanks for all the info

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  • Gmail: any paid hoster
  • pycharm is on linux
  • Star Citizen runs in Proton, no?
  • Remote desktop: look into VNC, i like Rustdesk
  • VPN: Wireguard
  • Norton AV: no need
  • Windows 10: scrap it
[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup, Star Citizen runs perfectly under Proton. There's even a script to get it as set up for you. https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/lug-helper

[–] Mouette@jlai.lu 4 points 1 week ago

Yes it runs fine I played it a lot on my system. It was unplayble when I tested on Hyprland due to interaction click being unusable but worked fine on sway