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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    As an architect, let me know once Linux supports autodesk products and adobe products. Until then I gotta stick with windows.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    I have the strong urge to point out it's the other way around; Adobe and Autodesk have to support Linux. You're of course right though, with the strong lock-in effect from those big companies it's almost impossible to switch unless done on company-level. And even then project partners will expect files to be in a specific (proprietary) format most of the time.

    It was really disheartening to see Ondsel ES fail, it was a valiant attempt at creating a business-grade Open-Source CAD solution based on FreeCAD. Unfortunately Autodesk's monopoly extinguished any attempt at finding funding, despite existing interest by those who actually use that stuff (I assume Autodesk is fucking expensive like any monopoly software...). Education, Production, Distribution… those few big companies own and control literally every part. It would probably take both governmental effort as well as some kind of soft UI-standardisation to crack these power structures.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

    Autodesk I understand but the adobe suite sucks major donkey balls anyway

    [–] [email protected] 73 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately, my vr headset requires a piece of middleware that is not Linux compatible. But, by the time 10 LTSC reaches end of life, Deckard should be available for purchase.

    Also, I'll need to re-pirate substance painter for avatar work, as GenP doesn't do Linux either.

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    [–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago

    When you're Canadian, European or basically not a US citizen, that alone should be enough reason not to use windows..don't give your money to greedy corporate overlords of a dictatorship

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

    It's TruckersMP for me because it's built on .NET libraries and I can't get truckersmp-cli to load my DLCs for whatever reason :|

    [–] Panamalt 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    I side-loaded Mint for a couple hours just to goof around, and then . . . never booted Windows again, quite literally forgot it was installed three days later

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

    Sounds just like my last dual boot setup, as well.

    I believe I said "I'll just boot back to Windows next time I want to play...this game...that just launched and played perfectly under Proton...or...this other game...which also works...huh..."

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    shitty anticheat protected games where the dev has specifically chose to block linux?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

    Linux is a reason to ditch those games

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    video games work pretty well in general

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (8 children)

    I feel like a stuck record saying this, but if there was a serious contender to Group Policy on Linux I honestly think Windows in the workplace would be dead in five years.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    I'm going to give you the secret to switching. Go all AMD for your build, and leave everything you know about Windows software and how it works at the door. Learn to use Linux. Expecting it and Linux software to work like Windows is the pitfall.

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    [–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Audio production/editing. You can switch to mac but not to linux at the moment. Well, you can do on linux like 80% of what you can on windows by using Wine, but certain apps and plugins are incompatible right now. The one that holds me back is Izotope RX suite, which is a de-facto standard for audio restoration/clean-up, and it's all because of their drm (even the cracked versions have the drm merely bypassed, but it still crashes during the initialization, at least it was like that when I last tried it a couple of months ago).

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    That doesn't seem true unless you already require specific software or plugins. If you're just getting into it and still have the ability to choose freely without losses, DAWs like Bitwig Studio, Reaper, even Ardour will get you there. There's a wide range of fully working DACs, now with the Pipewire audio backend you don't have to meddle with Pulseaudio and/or Jack anymore either. There's also a wide range of plugins etc. Collected some info about those a while ago (when I thought I had time for extensive blogging, lol).

    To be fair, that's all for audio production, not necessarily restoration(?). Perhaps you know something about that specific niche I don't.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    You are correct, you can do a lot of stuff in Linux already, but not everything. If you're just starting it may not be that big of a problem, but if you're already accustomed to certain tools, switching to an alternative may be very troublesome, especially if you have paying customers for this type of stuff and risk missing the deadlines or delivering an inferior result because the alternative isn't as good yet or the compatibility layer decides to break at the most inconvenient moment.

    Also I don't know about DACs, but from my understanding it's a coin toss whether the audio interfaces will work properly on linux, snd sometimes you need to record stuff. I haven't seen any big manufacturer providing linux drivers for the interfaces, and AFAIK some pro-level interfaces only work only with the proprietary drivers. Again, not that big of a hurdle if you're just starting, but if you already paid 1000$ for an interface and it turns out to be incompatible, it's a bummer, to say the least

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    For me it is the malwares. Other platforms do not stand a chance against windows.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Agreed, my malware collection would never be this big if I couldn't use Windows.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (12 children)

    I'm so close to making the switch. I'm just a poor soul though who enjoys games with those annoying anti-cheats. Thinking about trying to do a duel boot just for those specific scenarios.

    [–] Covenant 12 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Thats what I have. I suggest you take 2 different drives. Makes your life a lot easier.

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

    There’s plenty of software that is windows exclusive and has little to no Linux compatibility, although it is shit praxis, it is an argument to use windows

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    So, a few years back, when a good friend of mine tried out Linux mint, one of the main reasons he didn't stick with it wasn't even compatibility or anything (although he probably would have switched to a rolling release as someone who values cutting edge updates). But what ultimately made him return to Windows was something, I have been scratching my head on how to best handle it: The file system structure ultimately being too much of a change.

    Now, of course, if you are used to it, I wouldn't really call it better or worse - definitely more suited to what Linux ultimately is. But stuff like, "Where are the save games of my paradox games? Why is so much stuff in my user directory? Why is there no unified directoy for all the stuff I installed (including everything they use), like Program Files, but everything is scattered all around into different directories? Why was the path to my save games hidden in a dotfile-folder?" were examples of hurdles, where the current answer seems to be "you just have to get used to it".

    Now, I am not pleading to change the standard, there's good reasons for it. But are there good transitioning guides from Windows to Linux, that do a good job at explaining the structure of the file system? Because I remember, myself, only really getting used to it months into my Linux journey all those years ago.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    Ehm, your friend should really hold ma beer.

    Windows: ok, where files of program N? Let's check: C:/Program files? Or Program files (x86)? Why do I happen to see same program in both?

    Ah, Documents/N? Maybe. But empty

    C:/AppData/(or whatever that is called)...fucking_hell? With fucking invisible folders? Really?

    As to the actual question, I remember just googling the standard, got some idea back then. Now found https://linuxhandbook.com/linux-directory-structure/ should be good enough (I guess, being used to reading software docs does change views on what is good/bad and also builds tolerance to detailed descriptions)

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Why was the path to my save games hidden in a dotfile-folder?

    It isn't any better on Windows, but oh boy does this one piss me off.

    ~/.config/mygame β€” wtf, no it's not config
    ~/mygame β€” fuck off, the home folder is mine
    ~/.local/share/mygame β€” better, I guess?
    ~/.cache/mygame β€” absolutely not here
    ~/.steam/.../MyGame β€” still not great, but at least it's self contained
    
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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (10 children)

    This ethereal concept titled β€œWork” is pointing a pistol towards me.

    But yeah. Windows is trash. I’m going to go submit resumes and buy lottery tickets.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    what kind of software are you trying to run? i don't have many issues with work.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

    Microsoft software and NinjaRMM screen sharing. Ninja and MS SQL management tools are the biggest blockers since the web versions of M365 are adequate.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

    Wait, there's something scrawled on the corner down here in crayon...

    i'm lazy

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