So my dad has been using an ancient Atom laptop that ran Windows 10. It happened to finally fail a few months ago and I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to get Quicken Classic Deluxe running in Wine since then. I virtualized his laptop install and threw it on my mom's system through hyper-v and that's been getting him through the day but I would rather come up with a solution that doesn't involve using an offline VM just for running Quicken. For reference, the linux laptop I have is running fully up-to-date EndeavourOS (Arch). I tried a solution from winehq.org but it didn't seem to make any progress. Someone suggested that the repo version of Wine was incompatible and that I should build from AUR, which I tried as well, but gave up after about 3 hours of compiling on this 12th-gen mobile i7.

A friend of mine just installed CachyOS Desktop Edition (plasma) and I brought up the HDR calibration in windows, thinking that was something linux still didn't have. Turns out at least some DEs (i think thats a DE thing?) do have decent HDR support now. I still want RTX features tho.

Or . . at this point, if you don't have a very good reason to keep using windows, (eg: work, professional software unavailable on linux/through wine), just stop making concessions for windows and use Linux.

This just reads as "here's a pill to make that stick up your ass hurt less" just pull it out ffs

Im so glad I finally made the jump to linux. For anyone still on the fence about it, do it. It's so easy to switch, I've been using Kubuntu for a few weeks now and I have had maybe one issue with playing games, and it was solved by changing the Steam compatibility layer version.

When I switched, I installed a fresh (debloated) Windows instance on another SSD just in case. You know how many times I've used it? ONCE, and it was only be cause a buddy wanted me to try a game that had anticheat (I think Rocket League). Other than that I've had no reason to use it. There's a decent replacement for just about every Windows software out there, and if I ever come across a need for software I can't run on Linux, I'll just use the Windows instance for it. Other than that Microsoft can suck it. They're not getting any more of my info.

Now if only I didn't just get a new Android phone, I'd swap over to a de-Googled phone....

Oh come on, you think it's not in the OS itself with no ability to disable it? AdGuard is not going to necessarily help the fundamental issue here.

Those seem like niche things to hold on to. A 5090 should work just fine under Linux, what feature do you use that isn't supported? Also a 9070 XT is capable of doing ray tracing. You don't always have to have the absolute most powerful card.

I don't have an HDR monitor so can't say how well it works in Linux, but you can survive without HDR. Is a better lighting contrast that big of a deal?

Funny thing is, on my laptop there's an issue with Linux and browsers. Any video or animation, even little animations, runs at like 3fps. This makes using a browser virtually impossible.

Everything else works well, but that just doesn't make Linux an option for me right now. I tried a variety of browsers and distros. It's really frustrating. It's not even a bad laptop, Lenovo Legion 5 pro RTX3060.

What phone model is it? You can probably unlock the bootloader and install a de-googled rom, or get root access and de-google it yourself.

What GPU does your laptop have?

nvidia supports it

I said in my previous comment an RTX3060 and an iGPU. I tried with the iGPU, without the iGPU, switching them, hybrid mode. Nvidia drivers, nouveau drivers, it's always the same.

I wrote a post on it some time ago: https://feddit.nl/post/34127250

Sorry, I had just woken up so I missed it . I would suggest asking this in your distro's forum if you still have Linux installed on that laptop.

I'm run Nvidia since before I started using Linux. Sometimes waking from sleep doesn't work, other than that I have zero issues. Ymmv of course.

It's not JUST about recall, but whatever.

Guess what? We browsers have always worked and been native with Linux.

We???

I've already tried Linux with an Nvidia GPU. The driver is bare bones. You don't get the Nvidia App or even the Nvidia Control Panel. That means no 3D Settings page, no RTX HDR, no Shadowplay, no game filters, no video upscaling in Firefox... All features that I paid money to have and use daily.

Point I'm making is that I didn't spend a bunch of money on a 4090, onlyto not be able to fully utilize every feature it has to offer.

This is objectively untrue. I've seen it for myself.

You get a bare bones driver and nothing else. That means no 3D Settings page, no RTX HDR, no Shadowplay, no game filters, no video upscaling in Firefox... All features that I paid money to have and use daily.

I didn't spend a bunch of money on a 4090, only to not be able to fully utilize every feature it has to offer.

With an Nvidia GPU on Linux, you don't get the Nvidia App or even the Nvidia Control Panel. That means no 3D Settings page, no RTX HDR, no Shadowplay, no game filters, no video upscaling in Firefox... All features that I paid money to have and use daily. None of it exists in Linux beyond wonky half-solutions.

Been there, done that. I also went to the Lenovo Legion Linux discord server. All great people, but their advanced solutions didn't work either. Even people with exactly the same model didn't have this issue. I have no idea what it could be, maybe something hardware related.

Maybe bring that up at Nvidia. The Linux Community is not obligated to deliver you your needed functions for free

Other solution: don't pay for it. Don't buy Nvidia because they don't support Linux.