Hey there I am another refugee from windows with the forced push to windows 11. I thought it was time I tried once again linux. So far I am pretty satisfied.
I installed Fedora with KDE and successfully migrated my syncthing server, sftp server. Correctly mounted my nft disks and successfully installed mullvad with all split tunneling I needed.

Now I need advices about 3 things which I sorely miss and which keep forcing me to boot on windows :

  • is there any equivalent to macrium reflect, allowing to schedule weekly image backup for system disk. So it could be restored in case something really goes wrong.
    My system disk is brtfs. Time machine looks nice but it’s not working because I have no @home and @root volume identified. I found explanations which explain how to do it but I am not too sure it’s a good idea to do so.
    I also found rsync. Didn’t explore enough this solution but I am not sure an image backup can be done if system is running ?
  • for vscode it’s easy and I got it running for my linux environment. Yet I have programs which are meant specifically to run on windows and so I can’t develop and test them on linux
  • at last for my work I need to be able to use excel. Libre office is not a solution, it’s ok for basic usage but it’s far behind if you’re using it professionally. Please don’t turn this about an arguments to say calc is good, really there is something that are just impossible with it. (Like using arrays, power query or data models)

For the last 2 points I feel like my only solution would be to use a virtual machine running windows. Is there a way to run them on it but make it looks like it’s a linux app? Somewhat is it what docker is doing but for linux apps ?

Well I feel like I have not many options if I want excel and vscode on windows environment. So sadly I think that will settled it. Please share your thoughts.
I would also really appreciate people sharing what they do to backup their system disk.

Thanks for your advice !

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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    3 days ago

    “freely”* (Terms of Service and Privacy Policy applies) using a service that you are basically expected to use by society around you

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      2 days ago

      So by your definition going to the dentist is slavery? After all society expects you to go, and there are terms and conditions.

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          18 hours ago

          And who is requiring you to use windows? Previously it was just societal expectations but apparently it’s not that anymore. Who is cracking the whip to force you to use windows?

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            11 hours ago

            Previously it was just societal expectations but apparently it’s not that anymore.

            since when is going to the dentist the only societal expectation? since when is that a societal expectation at all?

            • education lot of places that force you to install spyware for the online exams
            • banks that intentionally break their websites on “unsupported” systems
            • workplaces where people work with computers, basically generally, becausre of ms office and supervision software