If Adobe would put its products on Linux I wouldn’t need Windows (or Mac) anymore. Unfortunately a lot of my work still requires being able to open things in Indesign and XD.
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In the same boat. Been practicing GIMP but 25 years of PS is difficult to break away from =/ plus god forbid colleagues put in an ounce of effort in meeting to understand that PS isnt the only way to crop a damn image
Can you run a virtual machine on Linux just for Adobe?
Yes, but I would still need Windows for that. I meant I could remove Windows/Mac entirely from my life except that I need access to Adobe products.
I would preach about Affinity, but it doesn’t work on Linux either. Productivity apps in general are a lot more problematic than games.
Yeah. I am forced to keep one windows computer around for MasterCAM. I likely won't be able to pay to reup that license, though so I might be forced to try to make FreeCAD or similar work.
It probably never will
I mean, I can imagine CreativeCloudOS becoming a required install eventually in addition to the monthly fee and your firstborn for creative cloud. It may not be super likely but Adobe cutting out Microsoft from its money pipeline doesn't sound impossible
I spent 4 hours today trying to remove previous employers' emails from the setup window for OneDrive - the one where you choose which email to sign in with and configure OneDrive.
I deleted credentials, erased mentions in the registry, updated my Outlook from classic to new, uninstalled the app about 10 times, enabled/disabled the hidden administrator account, moved the cache folders out from their normal locations, deleted my Outlook accounts, unlinked my PC, deleted OneDrive folders, tried completely resetting OneDrive only to get an error saying that I couldn't - even after using a command that should have forced the program to reset. Nothing worked.
This is legitimately breaking my brain.
In contrast, I recently set up KeePass and Syncthing. How fucking easy that was, both on my Windows PC and phone.
If Linux promises a better modern OS experience than Windows 11, then I will ADORE switching to Ubuntu or Mint when I order my new Framework.
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You look proprietary.
Games and mods are really the only reason I still put up with the BS, but that straw is gonna break eventually. I don't want to dual boot, but once SteamOS can play D2 that will probably be the day.
The only thing I'm really not sure on is mods. I tend to mod the fuck out of any game that supports it, and since mods are all written independtly, I'm worried many won't be written well enough to be functional outside of the environment they were MacGyvered in.
If by D2 you mean Destiny 2, then I recommend making the switch so you CAN'T play D2. As a former addict myself, I can tell you it doesn't have control your life. I know it doesn't seem like it now but there is a way out if you're open to it.
Sending thoughts and prayers ❤️
4k hours in and I finally realized it had become a second job. Stay strong out there, recovery is possible!
Now I'm playing a bunch of fun single player games that I missed out on because I was so sucked in.
Yes! It really was a second job! When it's good, it's REALLY good but it gets to the point where you're playing because you feel you have to, not because you want to. You're constantly grinding mindless crap so you'll be ready for that next content drop that hits as hard as the last thing you actually enjoyed over a year ago (spoiler alert: it won't).
I was lucky. I came to that realization at 1.1k hrs and it still took another 100 to quit. Afterwards, and I am dead serious about this, it took a bit more time before I could enjoy single player games I used to love again.
D2 is a pit that can and will suck you in. It's digital crack.
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How I predict my migration will go:
- Take a week off work so I can focus.
- Load Ubuntu and get Proton / Steam up and running.
- Spend remainder of the work troubleshooting audio & video issues.
- Either get everything working by the end of the week, or live my ass up and install Windows 11.
Just install Mint if you’re already planning on ubuntu. It’s basically the same thing under the hood, but with more polish and shine and without Canonical’s junk.
Gaming...straight to Bazzite, you'll likely be playing in an hour. Why wait, just point the installer at an external drive and see what it's like.
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I've tried installing Linux on two computers four times last month, but I haven't been able to for one reason or another. I've already spent an hour debugging simply because I cancelled the installation once at the wrong time (ie. any time after hitting start) and had to go in there and rename shit (??????). If the community really wants us to switch, it needs to iron out all this garbage at the front door. I can only imagine the frustration of getting everything else up and running. Fuck these headaches. I've had a better UX installing Windows, which I did about 10 times last year without a hitch.
I don't know what distro you're installing or what the hell you're doing, but most of the time it's trivial. From my experience, the Linux installation is much simpler and easier than Windows.
It is different though, so if you bash your head against it expecting Windows then you're obviously going to have a bad time. You need to start with the understanding that it's a different thing and you'll have to learn it, just like you did Windows when you first started with that. You weren't instantly an expert. You just forgot what it was like to be a noob who doesn't know what they're doing.
Well, I've worked with Linux before, and it wasn't a generally smooth experience, so I went in with "it's a different environment" in mind. But the series of events that unfolded was absurd. I was so ready and hyped to install some software that I remember from back in the day and try to emulate at least one game, but no luck. If I want to do it, I'm gonna need to dedicate some time and more effort than expected to setting up. I've been procrastinating because I don't want to deal with these bugs.
For games, just use your package manager to install Steam, then install Proton from there. (IIRC it's automatic for just the standard release version.) Steam games should mostly just work without you needing to do anything. Other games, you want to use something like Heroic or Lutris (I recommend the former) to manage them and launch them with Proton without manually doing it all every time.
If you expand on what your issues were, I'm sure plenty of people would be happy to help. Again, it should be pretty trivial, so I'm not sure what went wrong.
I can understand being frustrated, but you have to understand that your particular experience is not the norm. I'd be pretty confident saying that less than 1% of people will back out of an install half way through it or have that much of an issue installing (unless it's Arch). So it's not something that really needs to be fixed before people can start using Linux.
I didn't even have that many problems setting up a dual boot with Windows in 2006 when I was a total newbie to Linux, and I had to figure out how partitioning and swap files worked.
Just ask for help in a respectful manner on your distros forum and someone will very likely be happy to assist you.
Bit of an odd question, but did you try booting it from a USB on that machine and see if it worked alright for a few days with what you wanted it to do? Typically if it works fine from the bootable usb, it shouldn’t really have any issues installing unless your drive is copy protected or something, especially if it’s Mint like you mentioned below, also I’d recommend poking their forums if you haven’t yet, somebody might be able to shed more light on what’s wrong with specific errors and behaviours
I have to agree. I love Linux. I’m using it for all of my servers and it works great. I recently tried to switch my daily use computer from Windows 10 to Linux, and it’s not gone well. I’m on my 5th install and third disto. I’ve been told it’s a hardware compatibility issue, but if I need to buy a new computer to run Linux, I’m in the same boat as switching to Windows 11.
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Mate, there's people out there still on XP.
The "end of 10" will be people breathing a sigh of relief that they don't come back to their PC to find it's done a sneaky reboot while they were on lunch.
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EAC is the only thing holding me back, and I don’t trust it on a VM since it does some deep hardware voodoo.
It’ll probably live on its own machine I only use for that purpose.
Whats EAC again? I'm always eager to learn what possible show stoppers exist for people.
Exact Audio Copy
I own a lot of CDs.
Oh interesting! What do you use for that and what is the result? Flac or other?
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EasyAntiCheat. Not sure why it'd stop them, because Proton has an EAC runtime.
Why don't we have an open source anti-cheat protocol that is a demon-level service. Everyone hates kernel anti-cheat, but only because they're close source, so why don't we have one that's open source. Seems like a simple solution.
Valve will figure it out for us and then offer it for any game published on Steam.
Dunno what state their own services are in currently for games like TF2, CS2 and Deadlock.
I don't think it can work if it's open source probably. There's always ways around anti-cheat. It's only a matter of finding it. Making it open source makes it trivial.
With that said, kernel level anti-cheat doesn't really seem to slow anyone down much. I've heard that the games with them still have plenty of hackers. Why try to solve a problem with such a big weapon if it isn't going to work anyway? Best case, it potentially adds some really deep vulnerabilities to your system, and maybe slightly slows down hackers.
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I installed Mint on another partition alongside Windows 10, and I’m giving myself until the end of the extended security update period to fully migrate.
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Ahh, but what OS does Joi use?
I didn't realize that was how her name was spelled! That is fucking hilarious 😂
My VPN expires tomorrow. After that, my media center laptop goes offline forever, until the penguin gets its filthy flippers on it.
What's the best distro for a shitty 10 year old Lenovo Yoga? I'll be using it to acquire (through purely legal means) torrents including Wikipedia backups and Linux isos
I still use VirtualBox with Windows 10 to launch all the Affinity products because GIMP is so bad. And for browser fingerprint protection, e.g. chrome (ungoogled) on windows, because no browser fakes it. Not mullvad, Tor or Brave.
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Here here
Edit: Hear hear?
The latter, it originates from the British parliament, as in I hear you and agree.
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