Fedora, it fucking slaps and worked right out of the box. I'm using it for work and play on my main rig! I dual boot for some very specific hardware things that are not normal, but other than that it's been seamless! When I booted into Windows 10 again, they auto installed copilot... Glad to be done with this crap.

    • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      I don't think that'll help, the main thing is that the software isn't available for the Anker camera on Linux, I looked around and there wasn't a fix that people found. But getting on the windows app to change the settings makes them stick accross platforms. I just bought a cheap SSD to migrate windows to. There's also the weird random errors that I've gotten in the past and one just happened - played a game with my gamepad and suddenly the whole system decided to sleep... I'll figure it out over time, but I need a fallback in case things go south, I need my computer to make a living.

      • farting_weedman [none/use name]
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        4 months ago

        Oh you’re tied to ankerwork huh?

        I had a similar situation a while ago. Added some ram to the workstation and ran the software in a qemu vm. You can pass through the device directly to the virtual windows install. I did it with an industrial cnc mill before it had complete Linux support.

          • farting_weedman [none/use name]
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            4 months ago

            Qemu is the virtualization software on the backend. When you have a problem you can look it up like that and find lots of help. Virt-manager is the front end you can control it with.

            Once you made a vm profile or whatever, there’s an option way down at the bottom in virt-manager that lets you pick devices to directly pass on to the virtualized system.

            The only thing I’d suggest is making sure you have enough ram to block out some decent amount for your windows vm. Ten “will” boot up with just two gigs but I ended up allocating eight to it so it could actually run updates and function.