To anyone who reads this: I know everyone talks about Linux around Lemmy, and that you’ve already been offered to install Linux a million times.
I understand how much it puts you off.
But this time, give a try. For real. Try it, there’s nothing to lose.
The reason we don’t ever shut up about it is because Linux is just so much better that many of us don’t imagine how we lived without it. Unironically.
Spend a week on Linux. Install Mint, or Manjaro, and run them - not in VM, use dualboot. You can easily delete Linux afterwards if you don’t like it, straight out of Windows. Run it for a week.
For word there’s a web client if you need to have word, but there’s also FOSS alternatives that aren’t word that work just as well.
For Adobe, I’m not sure. Do you need Adobe, or can an alternative work?
Microsoft obviously often only supports Windows, though they do have a decent amount of Linux support too, because their developers use Linux frequently. A lot of other large companies don’t support Linux either because they don’t see the incentive, or they have another worse reason, such as helping Microsoft maintain market dominance.
Honesty if you have to have Microsoft and adobe stuff get a Mac.
Sure the hardware sucks, but at least you’re getting a Unix based OS that while is inferior to Linux is a lot more stable then Windows and everyone knows adobe software runs better on Macs due to most of the industry using them.
Honesty it’s a shame MacOS is tied to Apple hardware( yes I know about hackintoshes, but that’s a messy unofficial work around )
As someone who has daily driven all 3 for at least a couple years my OS ranking is:
Linux
MacOS
Windows
But if you can live without proprietary software use Linux.
Also out of interest what got you on Lemmy if you’re not into FOSS and Linux? Just wondering why other people join.
Ray tracing works, but Nvidia broadcast itself doesn’t work. There are other projects out there like NoiseTorch that do a really good job at filtering audio.
I’m trying Ubuntu now. I’ve had it installed for about three months. I only switch to Windows 10 to play Starfield. The only problem I’ve had… (delete, it’s a long story I don’t want to write). I had to reinstall, I couldn’t figure out how to reinstall and keep my settings and apps, so I had to redo everything. I’m glad I still had Windows (because I wanted to play Starfield), because I would have been screwed–I had formatted the USB stick I used to install Ubuntu the first time. It’s been probably over 10 years since I needed to use a recovery disc to get Windows running again.
It’s unfortunate that AAA game developers won’t support Linux. But, the money isn’t there, and we live under capitalism. Without reliable, plug-n-play, easy-as-Windows game support, Linux will remain niche. I’m sure the point has been made before, but here it is again, and still.
There are no users on Linux because there are no games!
They don’t make games for Linux because there are no users!
Except Valve nullified all those arguments. First with Proton, and then with the Steam Deck.
Companies don’t even have to target Linux with dedicated builds anymore. They just need to target Proton, which reduces the work for a Linux version by at least 90%.
To anyone who reads this: I know everyone talks about Linux around Lemmy, and that you’ve already been offered to install Linux a million times.
I understand how much it puts you off.
But this time, give a try. For real. Try it, there’s nothing to lose.
The reason we don’t ever shut up about it is because Linux is just so much better that many of us don’t imagine how we lived without it. Unironically.
Spend a week on Linux. Install Mint, or Manjaro, and run them - not in VM, use dualboot. You can easily delete Linux afterwards if you don’t like it, straight out of Windows. Run it for a week.
And you’ll be like us.
Damn this got me fired up. Can I run MS Word and Adobe in Linux?
Practically, no. If a Linux user need Adobe for her life, then she needs to use it from a Virtual Machine.
For word there’s a web client if you need to have word, but there’s also FOSS alternatives that aren’t word that work just as well.
For Adobe, I’m not sure. Do you need Adobe, or can an alternative work?
Microsoft obviously often only supports Windows, though they do have a decent amount of Linux support too, because their developers use Linux frequently. A lot of other large companies don’t support Linux either because they don’t see the incentive, or they have another worse reason, such as helping Microsoft maintain market dominance.
Yeah I have to have Adobe for legal documents, and Word, too. Some mfs even still use Word Perfect.
No other PDF reader/word processor is able to do the same?
There are plenty of both with pretty much exact same functionality.
But if you really depend on those for some obscure reason, Wine should help.
Honesty if you have to have Microsoft and adobe stuff get a Mac.
Sure the hardware sucks, but at least you’re getting a Unix based OS that while is inferior to Linux is a lot more stable then Windows and everyone knows adobe software runs better on Macs due to most of the industry using them.
Honesty it’s a shame MacOS is tied to Apple hardware( yes I know about hackintoshes, but that’s a messy unofficial work around )
As someone who has daily driven all 3 for at least a couple years my OS ranking is:
But if you can live without proprietary software use Linux.
Also out of interest what got you on Lemmy if you’re not into FOSS and Linux? Just wondering why other people join.
No
The problem comes when you talk about gaming.
You can talk about proton and such all you want.
At the end of the day can I come home from work install some new game I want to play and probably have it just work, without feature compromises…
One day maybe, but not yet.
Kinda my gaming experience on Linux right now.
For most games, I install them and they just run perfectly fine.
There are a few games that still need tweaks, though, that is true.
It’s more stuff like, does ray tracing and stuff like nvidia broadcast work?
Like I use that to filter all my incoming sound from discord and all the audio coming into my microphone.
It’s the oddball features like that example above where Linux always falls over for me.
Don’t get me wrong I HATE windows.
I really really hope that steam os on the steam deck is going to maybe push devs to make more native Linux releases.
I see; I don’t personally use those tools, so can’t tell you anything about it.
Hope they’ll be included soon, one way or the other, if they aren’t!
Thanks for your feedback.
Ray tracing works, but Nvidia broadcast itself doesn’t work. There are other projects out there like NoiseTorch that do a really good job at filtering audio.
I’m trying Ubuntu now. I’ve had it installed for about three months. I only switch to Windows 10 to play Starfield. The only problem I’ve had… (delete, it’s a long story I don’t want to write). I had to reinstall, I couldn’t figure out how to reinstall and keep my settings and apps, so I had to redo everything. I’m glad I still had Windows (because I wanted to play Starfield), because I would have been screwed–I had formatted the USB stick I used to install Ubuntu the first time. It’s been probably over 10 years since I needed to use a recovery disc to get Windows running again.
It’s unfortunate that AAA game developers won’t support Linux. But, the money isn’t there, and we live under capitalism. Without reliable, plug-n-play, easy-as-Windows game support, Linux will remain niche. I’m sure the point has been made before, but here it is again, and still.
There are no users on Linux because there are no games!
They don’t make games for Linux because there are no users!
Except Valve nullified all those arguments. First with Proton, and then with the Steam Deck.
Companies don’t even have to target Linux with dedicated builds anymore. They just need to target Proton, which reduces the work for a Linux version by at least 90%.
Shit the fuck up
Fuck off already.
People who are hostile towards other people trying to be genuinely helpful are baffling to me. You could have scrolled past and gone on with your day.
I’ve done that for months but it’s starting to get on my nerves.