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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

    This may lead to people looking for options. That is good for the competition.

    Linux may be ready to receive some of the users. Not in all areas. There is still work to be done. Unfortunately the users want to change now so it may be to other OS. Maybe MAC or Chrome OS. Unfortunately there is no easy transition or as camping for moving to Linux, like double click this .exe and migration begins.

    I moved to Fedora with KDE but that was only possible due to I am a power user. Average Joe will fail and find suitable replacement applications takes time.

    I hope some companies with money takes the opportunity to take care of those lost souls. Maybe Red har have money for TV ads?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    ME ??

    That wasn't a good OS either...

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

    Everyone migrates to Ubuntu. One finger of the monkey's paw curls up.

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Of course we all have our preferences and personal history with these things, but I think we can all agree that most preconfigured Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE ISOs with popular desktops are already more sensible and simple than the mess that is "searching for a setting in Windows".

    Whether it's GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, Budgie, Mate, XFCE, LXQt.

    Compared to Windows, every Linux desktop is a blessing. Even that one that you personally don't like or had a bad experience with.

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

    Ah, yes, the mythical "Year of the Linux Desktop"—that elusive utopia Linux enthusiasts have been chasing since it's creation. Newsflash: nobody cares. The year of the Linux desktop isn't some grand global awakening; it's just whenever you decide to stop whining about it and install the thing. For me, it was 2002, and guess what? My computer didn't care either. It just worked. So stop waiting for some cosmic alignment of market share and app support. The year of the Linux desktop is when you make it. Now go forth and sudo (or doas) your destiny....

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I decided to set up Fedora on my new laptop as it was either take a chance on that or spend like 3 hours debloating a Win11 install.

    It's been over 10 years since I last tried dailying Linux, we have come a long way in that time. Everything just worked out of the box. No fucking around needed.

    Even relatively niche stuff like my thunderbolt dock and the laptop's fingerprint sensor was picked up. And, thanks to the investment Valve has been putting into Wine and Proton, pretty much every game I've tried has worked with no issue.

    Next time my desktop is due for a clean install I'll definitely be doing the same there.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    I've been learning GIMP to replace Photoshop in preparation. So far, so good, but there are still things about GIMP I just dont get. Like, it's seems impossible to paint onto a fully transparent layer because the paint tool doesn't modify the mask as it goes. I don't even want that layer to have an alpha channel, but it seems like you have no choice if you want a transparent layer.

    If you try to paint on a transparent layer, you just get... nothing. It's so trivial in Photoshop to make a new layer and just paint into it, and I can't figure it out at all in GIMP. (I really should ask in a forum, but I also feel like I shouldn't have to.)

    Being able to script in Python to simulate Photoshop actions is both awesome and crappy. It's awesome because of how powerful it is, but crappy that I can't just whip up an action in seconds to make a quick, repeatable edit.

    I guess I'll have to use a VM to run Autodesk Fusion. ☹️

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

    After switching about 3 years ago, I tried running photoshop through wine. It was a little glitchy visually (I hear it's ok nowadays though) so I tried gimp and just couldn't get used to it. I tried krita and its perfect for what I use it for, very easy to use coming from photoshop. I'm not sure about actions as I don't think I used them in Photoshop but it has plugins so you might be able to find something to replace what you used before

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

    Maybe try https://photopea.com/, an in browser Photoshop recreation.

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