Migrating from Windows to Linux
My evil plan to migrate from Windows to Linux, entirely in the end of it
Choosing Distro
Based on the Houdini support
From the discussion using Wayland
- Ubuntu
- CachyOS (Arch)
- Fedora
- Rocky Linux 10
Wayland support is still not good, use X11
Dual-boot
- Separate SSD
- Grub (keep backing it up in case Windows screws it)
Windows virtualization
Edge case for using a VM, or Bottles?
Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online.
Hardware
| Device | Windows Driver/App | Linux equivalent | FOSS | License | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logi vertical mouse, radio | Logi Options++ | Solaar | ✅ | GPL 2.0 | |
| Razor Blackwidow X Chroma Keyboard | OpenRGB | OpenRGB | ✅ | GNU 2 | |
| 3D Connexion SpaceNavigator wired | 3DConnexion driver for Windows | 3DConnexion driver | |||
| XP Pen Pro Deco M | XP-Pen driver for Windows | XP-Pen driver | |||
| Arturia MiniLab mk II MIDI | Arturia Software Center | ||||
| Nvidia Drivers | Nvidia driver/app | Linux proprietary NVIDIA drivers | |||
| CyberPower CP1500PFCLCDa | PowerPanel business | PowerPanel Business | |||
| Fan control/Sys monitor | Argus Monitor | CoolerControl | ✅ | GNU 3 | CoolerControl H/W support |
| GPU control | MSI AfterBurner | ||||
| Intel Wireless Bluetooth/Wifi | Intel win drivers | ||||
| Realtek Audio | Win driver + Realtek Audio Console |
Software
CG
| Purpose | Windows | Linux (Native or using Wine/etc) | FOSS | License | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3D | Houdini | Houdini | Indie $300 | ||
| 3D | Blender | Blender | ✅ | GPL | |
| 3D Characters | DAZ Studio | DAZ Studio using Wine or ??? | Forum discussion | ||
| 3D Texturing | InstaMAT | InstaMAT | Free Unrestricted Pioneer License | ||
| 3D Painter | ArmorPaint | ArmorPaint | ✅ | ||
| Compositing and animation | After Effects | Davinci Resolve/Fusion | $300 | ||
| Asset manager | Connecter | ??? | |||
| 3D viewer | F3D | F3D | ✅ | BSD 3 Clause | |
| Draw | Draw.io | Draw.io | ✅ | Apache 2.0 | deb, AppImage or rpm |
| 2D | Affinity | Affinity using Wine | Github Repo | ||
| Image Viewer (color managed) | ImageGlass | Geeqie | ✅ | GPLv2 | |
| Video Player | MPC-HC | MPV, SMPlayer | ✅ | ||
| Image Sequence Player | cineSync Play, DJV | DJV cineSync Play | ✅ |
Audio
| Purpose | Windows | Linux | FOSS | License | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio Editor | Oceanaudio | ??? | |||
| DAW | Ableton | Reaper, Bitwig Studio | $60, $100-300 | ||
| VST plugins | Native Instruments, Arturia | LinVST vst wrapper/bridge | ✅ | GPL 3.0 | |
| Display audio EQ | Equalizer APO | ??? | |||
| Audio Player | Foobar | DeaDBeeF, Audacious, Strawberry, Amarok | |||
| Podcast player | ??? (one of the above?) |
Other
| Purpose | Windows | Linux | FOSS | License | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PKM | Obsidian | Obsidian | Free for all | AppImage, Deb, Snap, FlatPak | |
| E-mail Client | Thunderbird | Thunderbird | ✅ | deb, rpm, flatpak, snap, etc. | |
| Font manager | FontBase | FontBase | |||
| Finance | Manager.io | Manager.io | Free | Ubuntu 20.04, Fedora 38 | |
| Password Manager | Keepass | Keepass under Mono | ✅ | Debian, Ubuntu, and more | |
| Time Tracking | ActivityWatch | ActivityWatch | ✅ | MPL 2.0 | |
| Screen Capture | ShareX | SnapX | |||
| Code editor | VS Code | VS Code | Ubuntu & Debian | ||
| Notepad | Notepad++ | SciTE, Geany | |||
| Firewall | GlassWire | Portmaster | |||
| Sync | Resilio Sync | Resilio Sync | |||
| Power Profile Control | Power Switcher App | ??? |