What's the one app or game keeping you on Windows (or dual-booting)?

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Windows can read PDFs more reliably than Linux distros. Some distros PDFs crash in and become unreadable. Before I deleted Windows 11 Pro on this laptop I tested PDFs on it. It loaded and allowed instant scrolling through a book size PDF. The best PDF performance I’ve ever seen.

I’m also lazy enough to used windows 10 because I have Balena etcher installed on my Windows to laptop. It’s easy to download and flash Linux distros with it or just burn them to DVDs. If a distro crashes I always have the ability to try another. Linux Mint two distros of linux mint crashed on two separate laptops on the same day.

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Have you tried Okular for those problematic cases?

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Just installed and tried it. Was good but inferior to Windows 11 Pro on the same laptop. The test was done with the same document [King Arthur Paladin 463 pages of fine print and illustrations. Using the scroll bar (or whatever it’s called on the right side) Okular blanked out when quickly scrolling through the PDF, while Windows 11 Pro kept loading as fast as I could scroll. TY for Okular, as I said I deleted Windows 11 pro however much impressed with it PDF functioning. One great point does not make a bad OS worth keeping.

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My final Windows application was Slysoft AnyDVD HD, but Slysoft went out of business a couple of years ago.

I am now Microsoft free.

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Looks like they were shut down by a German Court decision for reasons of copyright infrigement.

Do I assume correctly that you have switched over to VLC for those tasks?

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I am not sure Slysoft would have been subject to the laws of Germany.

I switched to MakeMKV for Linux:

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I have that as well but don’t seem to use it much, because I don’t do much with Blu-Ray! :slight_smile:

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Suffice it to say that I am a huge fan of Blu-ray. :slight_smile:

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