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Because I don't want to have to hope that things work on Linux that work on Windows.
- What is left? Photoshop? Excel?
  Meh
  
  You can literally use photoshop in your browser now, thanks to webassembly.
  
  Looks neat but Adobe's prices are always shockingly high.
  
  Photoshop is now available in the browser. Just Excel (not always, sometimes LibreOffice Calc with VBA compatibility does the trick), the other Adobe Creative Cloud applications, and some other Windows-only software (for example I dual boot Windows, because of advanced game macros written in AHK that don't work on Linux via wine or ahk_x11, and I have failed in porting or rewriting them (it's too big of a task, there is a whole team behind the actual macro). So... still some reasoms to run Windows, but fhese reasons are decreasing.
  
  Proper CAD software :(
  
  I've been using ARES Commander for a few years now as an AutoCAD alternative on Linux.
  An there is also BricsCAD for which the 3d options seem to better developed than with ARES.
  
  Yeah, this. Freecad does not count even though it's slowly getting better. There needs to be industry tools available.
  
  Fusion 360 works pretty well via Lutris
  
  Proper CAD or AutoCAD? Those are not the same.
  
  CAD, AutoCAD is just a CAD program
  
  I meant if it was because AutoCAD or any other CAD program.
  
  Ah nevermind, yeah at home/work I use SolidWorks and Fusion 360
  
  You're casually blowing off two of the main reasons why I still have to use Windows.
  Is there a Linux alternative to Excel that will allow me to reliably write and execute VBA macros that I can then deploy to my windows using co-workers?
  Is there a Linux alternative to Photoshop? Doesn't even need to be the most current version. I'd be happy with something that is functionally comparable to Photoshop 7.
  I'm not being glib with those questions either. It's been probably ten years since I've really used Linux. If there are legitimate alternatives I'd absolutely give it another go.
  
  Spin up a Windows VM in Linux for those apps.
  Or at least dual boot if you are into Linux.
  Or at a minimum put Linux on another device with older hardware...
  ;(
- Change is hard.

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