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.
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
Just…force yourself to use GIMP for a year or 6mo or smth long.
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
How are things with compatibility layers?
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.
You have a domain credential. You need to strip domain rights out of the system. The best way forward is to either wipe and start fresh or create a local user account to use as your new primary. You can likely pull the app data folders over into the new user as well as the documents and desktop folders. If you move the data you need, you can then delete the user folder for the old account. Most registry changes for domain users are Current_User entries which means you will have a clean registry as well.
Thanks, I’ll try that if I fucking care at this point lmao. Windows has beaten me down lol
You look proprietary.
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.
What happens when you connect win xp to the net nowadays? Genuine question.
Assuming you’re behind a NAT like just about everyone is these days, probably very little.
Only TLS 1.0 works unless you install extras, so you’d be unable to load some sites. Microsoft in particular have turned it off, so you’ll have trouble getting anything from them. The likes of Google and Facebook have it enabled still. It might be enabled for the update channels, but I don’t have a box on hand to test.
Going off road might earn you a browser vuln from a dodgy video hosting site, since most browsers stopped getting updates a while ago.
Honestly your biggest problem is that machines still on XP are as old as the hills and about as quick. A modern website will bring a Pentium 4 to it’s knees.
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.
Lmao. I’m actually pretty good about just playing the story content and moving on now. I pretty much treat it as a single player game. Got too much goin on in the real world to play an mmo seriously.
I just kinda see D2 as a turning point. Once they make the shift, lots of other things will probably work too.
sigh
USE PROTON!!!
Doesn’t work for Destiny 2. BattleEye reads it as a cheat and bans.
Also for modding on Linux use Limo. Works great.
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.
I’m thinking of buying a Mini-PC just to fiddle around with Linux and get used to it. I wish I had started using Linux regularly 20 years ago.
Honestly, you’ll be better off getting into linux now than any previous years. It’s pretty easy and practical these days especially with the push into the Steam Deck. It’s pretty much plug(install)-and-play with most systems, there’s only a few outliers like custom pc’s and a small amount of games that will give you any sort of problems.
I run one windows, one mac, and like 5 linux machines. If you stick with the more popular linux distributions like debian you won’t run into weird problems. It’s only surfing weird distro’s like elementary and pop OS that I’ve had to do further troubleshooting on.
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.
Before I read the further comments I was going to say Easy Anti-cheat does work fine. Lol. You may want to write out the full name first to avoid confusion in the future.
Ahh, but what OS does Joi use?
I didn’t realize that was how her name was spelled! That is fucking hilarious 😂
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.
I think I’m going to do this soon too but maybe with bazzite
Here here
Edit: Hear hear?
The latter, it originates from the British parliament, as in I hear you and agree.
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.
You might like winapps for your usecase. It makes things feel more fluid if you have a PC capable of running a Windows VM at the same time.
Cool and gross, dam capitalism, allowing Canva to buy the only competitive Adobe alternative and kill it.
I think GIMP is great. It does everything most people need it to do. You just have to take time to learn how to use it, just like with everything else.
I don’t think you have used Affinity of Photoshop much.
I’ve never used Affinity, but I used Photoshop plenty back in the day.
What features am I missing out on exactly?
This is my pet peeve. This is one application that should be paid for. It hugely lacks features. Non-destructive editing with gradients, adjustments, masks. Better selection tools, CMYK would be nice. But that’s not the worst part, it doesn’t have the entirety of Adobe Illustrator, which you can work between. Affinity has the Designer equivalent, which I use a lot.
I’m not sure why it would bother you that some people are satisfied with a piece of free software. That seems kinda weird to me tbh.
GIMP version 3.0, which was released on March 16th, introduced non-destructive editing. It supports non destructive editing with gradients through the use of layer effects and masks.
Not sure what you mean by ‘better selection tools’, but the ones they do have work just fine for how I use the program.
I am not a professional graphic designer, and I have never printed an image I made or tweaked with GIMP, so I’m not sure I would benefit from CMYK color space editing.
I’m sure you will say it is also shit, and I don’t have as much experience with it as I do GIMP but Inkscape is an open source vector graphics program that a lot of people seem to like, so it’s nice that we have that option for people whom it would be sufficient.
I’m not against people paying for programs they need to do their jobs, but I wish more people who believe in software freedom were willing to donate to Open Source projects that they use, or even ones that have the potential to be competitive, but aren’t quite there yet.
If professionals who rely on pro software, but also believe in software freedom would donate a fraction of what they spend on Pro software to projects like the GIMP, you would undoubtedly see a lot of the missing features show up in them.
As it stands most people either use the software and don’t donate, or pay $165 and up for software and then compare it to software that costs $0, as if that is any kind of a fair comparison.
My point was simply that most people aren’t professionals, and paying almost $700/year seems like overkill for people who want to occasionally create a meme or retouch a digital photo.
For people that absolutely have to have Pro software, clearly it’s not going to be competitive, but I sure am glad that it’s there for people who aren’t pros.
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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
Debian is nice
Agreed. For a server, Debian is awesome.
Completely obliterate Windows from project laptop Mint and Ubuntu installations go smoothly Both OSs will run just fine for about 30 minutes before freezing Even when I leave it alone and don’t have anything running
I won’t let this break me, I still have images for Fedora, KDE, OpenSUSE, and Manjaro. Even if we end up running Zorin, we’re going to get this right.
