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Power BI Desktop for Linux
there should be a linux version. Windows11 sucks as always they do before. We need to get rid of this OS
It would help if Microsoft would get rid of that pointless TPM requirement for Windows 11. Contrary to popular belief, I'm pretty sure TPMs and Total Volume Encryption (without PIN) [1] are of limited use security wise. Instead, I think the TPM requirement is maybe Microsoft's way of phasing out older hardware...
I'm going to try to avoid a lenthy rant here, but as an amatuer musician at home, I am constantly fighting Microsoft's attempts to force me into upgrading very expensive but perfectly working audio software/hardware. At work, I have to waste massive amounts of Desktop resources firing up a Win 10 VM in QEMU/KVM to run Power BI and Visual Studio when I can't do what I want in Visual Studio Code, .NET Core and Google Charts. My assigned desktop at work is not really powerful enough to properly host Virtual Machines.
[1] - If you aren't using a PIN with your BitLocker encryption, I suspect you are highly vulnerable to data theft loss if your device is ever stolen.
Have you tries a version of wine like Crossover Office or Lutris? I need to try to download the Software and see if I can get it working under wine.
I've used the Steam version of Wine called Proton sucessfully in my personal time for some video games. Sometimes Proton actually runs older DirectX games much faster than native Windows 8+. Steam Valve is a legitamate company so they could license Wine use from Microsoft if needed even though Steam OS is free.
As far as the open source version of Wine (outside of Steam OS), I've rarely had it function properly for anything but the most trivial apps at work and home.
Yes, MS Windows has had serious performance problems since Windows 10. I think build 1809 was the last decent MS Windows build. Everything after that has had serious performance issues even if some nice features (other than that pointless TPM requirement) have been added.
Honestly, things aren't going so well for me, but I wish Steinberg would just port Cubase over to GNU\Linux so I could be free of the constant unnecessary upgrade madness that Microsoft continues to impose on me. Often, it seems like the the benefit of upgrading your OS is the privilege of spending more money on new hardware so your new machine can run at the same speed as your old machine...
BTW: Nothing I say in these forums necessarily represent the views/oppinions of any employers I may or may not have.For Graphics intensive/DirectX software Lutris is the way to go but for other software (Like O365 for example) I hjave found CrossOver Office to be VERY stable and work VERY well. I also have had a LOT of descent (but definately not great or perfect) experience with wine packaged with Fedora. Slightly better is the wine that comes right from WineHQ.
No matter what, however none of this is a full replacement for a propper Linux version which is what we REALLY need long term. Shame there is no way to tell MS directly what we want to see for Linux so they have a real count of just how many users really do need this so they know it IS a real need that is worth while doing.
