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So it goes.
Good luck! I also don’t like spending money, so I don’t blame you. Definitely consider a dual-boot w/ Linux though, it can at least help you separate work from play. :)
Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.
So it goes.
Good luck! I also don’t like spending money, so I don’t blame you. Definitely consider a dual-boot w/ Linux though, it can at least help you separate work from play. :)
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro every day for my day job
Probably easier to run a VM or dual-boot then. Trying to keep those up-to-date is going to be a nightmare.
Honestly, if I were in your shoes, I’d probably get an Apple device. Adobe works great, and macOS isn’t as bad as Windows IMO.
I liked being functionally untrackable online, and not getting ads shoved down my throat
There are a lot of ways to get around that, such as:
But honestly, the first two are really easy to do and solve 80% of the problem with a very small amount of breakage, and Firefox is installed by default in most Linux distros, and is available in the repositories on those where it’s not the default.
Pretty much any major distro is going to have similar support for all of that. And for Adobe CC, that’s going to be limited at best. You didn’t specify which part of CC you need, but here’s an option for installing Photoshop 2022 on Linux. Trying to get the latest is likely going to be painful, since WINE would probably lag with supporting all the new updates.
Steam works pretty well pretty much everywhere. I’ve used it on Fedora, Arch, and openSUSE, and I’m sure it works fine on any Debian-based distro. VR support is similar, you’re going to have a much better time with SteamVR headsets. That said, here’s a guide to VR on Linux, stick to “confirmed working” sections for minimal tinkering.
Tails
Yeah, don’t use that for regular work, that’s an uber-paranoid distro that’s intentionally locked down, which means things are likely going to be more difficult to get working.
Try Linux Mint or Fedora (or Bazzite if you want gamer flavor), they’re both solid and tend to work pretty well out of the box. Software and hardware support doesn’t vary much between distros, so if it you can’t get it working with one of those and it’s not “officially supported” (i.e. instructions aren’t in one of my links), distro hopping probably won’t help.
Why include Linux bloat? Just write the kernel yourself!
Even simpler! Nothing to get between you and the kernel. :)
I’m guessing you’re running either the nvidia open source drivers (way worse performance) or you don’t have graphics switching configured and it’s using your GPU’s iGPU (way way worse performance).
Bigger distros like Mint will probably configure that for you.
Nah, use Gentoo, you’ll be hard-pressed to find something simpler.
True. It’s also good for people who want to get stuff done. I used it for 5-ish years, and it was an incredibly productive, low-maintenance distro. I only switched because I wanted to run brtfs on root, so I figured I’d give openSUSE a shot since they do that by default.
So I guess musl/busybox/Linux?
And yet, if someone asks, I will link it. I’m not proud of it, but I am helpful to a fault.
Ok, but what if there isn’t any GNU? Musl/Linux?
Yeah, everything kinda bad Firefox does, everything else seems to do worse. So I’m staying with it until that changes.
I’m not patient because of cost, I’m patient because new releases are buggy, and they’re usually stable by the time their price drops. They’re basically rewarding my patience…
I’ve considered it, yeah. There aren’t many posts, and I’ve been thinking of posting a bunch there to get it more popular.
Or maybe I’ll make a new, related community with a little broader appeal, idk. I find avoiding lemmy.ml is usually more enjoyable.
Here’s what I do:
I really haven’t had any issues on the two I mod, but they’re pretty small communities. And honestly, at Lemmy’s scale, if you’re feeling the need to use tools, you’re probably moderating too strictly, or you’re moderating a massive community.
Cool, I just figured packagers would be lazy and just use upstream builds. That’s what I would do.
Evidence? And if so, I don’t think Mozilla cares (e.g. snaps are probably repackaged installers).
If you’re renaming things, you’re going to recompile to put your branding on it. So things like Mull, Mullvad Browser, Librewolf, etc will all use their own binaries.
It’s not. It’s literally talking about installers, not source forks.
Believe what you want, I guess, but the facts available say otherwise.
This isn’t about forks, it’s about installers that pull directly from Mozilla’s servers. This could be installers that bundle malware/adware with it.
If you fork it, you’ll be building the source and distributing it yourself. This isn’t about that.
I wonder if this will fix Twitch too, video playback in VODs seem to get stuck as well…