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I'm glad you can have a Windows-free existence.
Some things just don't function well on Linux, but there are lots of us who are 99% Linux and don't use Windows unless we have to.
I have to use a windows box when I initiate my Reolink security cameras as an example. Haven’t been about to figure out a way to do the initial setup on them without and I couldn’t get it to run on Linux. Honestly been less of a time consuming pain to just have a windows box with the software. It’s only plugged into the isolated LAN anyway so whatever.
Like what exactly ?
CAD softwares, Tally, any Autodesk tools, Adobe software not counting specifically made business softwares years ago. I couldn't get Office running with wine ever.
Adobe is not worth using no matter what the platform.
It's the industry standard in many areas for a reason. Photoshop has no equal, though strides are being made to change that.
Don't care. Adobe is not worth using.
You don't care because it's not your job to use it professionally. You are not most people.
I don't care because it's a shit company. We can't just continue to ignore it, and say well it's all we got.
I would rather use anything, professional or not, even going back to doing it by hand, than support adobe.
Usually people in the commercial creative space have to collaborate. If no one uses the niche software you use you can rebel against Adobe all you want because a job won't be taking any of your time.
The larger shops are stuck in it because they have no foresight to get out, and the small shops are suffering because the licensing is really squeezing them while also trying to keep the stranglehold.
They all will get replaced with AI anyways. Even Adobe is leaning into it, they will continue to suggest that their "automation's" will be cheaper than the labor.
People using adobe are facilitating their own demise.
If you are a professional in this space, push back. It doesnt have to be this way.
My 3080ti graphics card. To my knowledge, NVIDIA drivers are still a mess on Linux, and any suggestion to "just switch to AMD" is neither helpful nor appreciated; as if dropping $500+ for a new graphics card when my current one works perfectly fine is in ANY way a valid solution.
Nvidia drivers and gaming compatibility have grown leaps in the last year. I'm using dual monitors on a 2070m in a laptop, one of the historically most incompatible setups. I am running cachyos. I was able to simply install the OS and start playing my entire steam library, all without any modification. I play plenty of modern games. I don't have any AAA FPS with anticheat though, which I hear don't work at all.
I had issues with the live boot having 3 monitors. I just unplugged 2 and installed, grabbed the suggested driver, no issues since.
Been playing everyday for about two years with my 3060ti without much issue. There's still the odd hiccup on occasion, but it's usually solved by picking a different Proton version. Most games "just work," generally without any changes.
The nVidia drivers haven't been "a mess" for quite a long time, so if that's what is holding you back, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. ProtonDB has a massive and growing list of games that run on Linux, and you can see what people did (if anything) to get those games working.
I will caution you, however, that if any amount of tinkering makes you inwardly cringe, you might want to think twice. Linux is generally easy to use, and it's only getting easier, but there will be times you'll have to add Launch Options to a Steam game, install a mod differently, or use the command line to do something.
Nvidia works fine on Linux. I have an nvidia card at home, and I support a bunch of them at work. It's easy. https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/driver-installation-guide/latest/index.html
Use the network installation to add the deb or rpm repo, then choose whether you want the open or proprietary drivers. Install the package and that's it, your package manager will handle the dependencies.
You may need to create and enroll a dkms key if you have secureboot enabled and you haven't done that already, but that's the only wrinkle.
How do you stop them from randomly uninstalling themselves? A bunch of guys use Ubuntu at work and the Nvidia drivers would randomly nuke themselves occasionally when the device is turned off and they'd have to force CLI mode and do a reinstall.
I've never seen that happen. But the transaction that caused it should be in the package manager log.
Thanks, I'll check those logs out the next time it happens.
I was going to say. That's never happened to me in Debian, Fedora, PopOS, Linux Mint, EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Nobara or Bazzite. Is this a Ubuntu only issue?
We use Ubuntu at work and I've never seen it. At home I use Debian and I've also never seen it there on my desktop, laptop, or server.
For what it's worth, we're using a mix of Ubuntu 20 LTS and 22 LTS.
i know what some of these words mean but i think i'm going to need your advice in the near future. Thanks!
I got a 3060 which works fine i guess the 3080 should too
Autocad
For me personally about 30% of my video game library, which don't function even with the various compatibility tools.
But when I started my YouTube channel I was using Openshot, which does not work on Linux, or at least it didn't for me. My old Lenovo Legion was largely incompatible with Linux too, as I tried a dual-boot with two different distros and still had to debug it all the time. (Thankfully not a problem on the Acer that replaced it.)
Linux is great, but it's not yet compatible with everything.
I used to work in tax and there isn't a functional professional tax prep software that i could find that works on linux.
I work in automotive, if you try to flash an ECU on Linux you are GOING to brick a likely 1000$ ecu. Some stuff, especially in the corporate/business environment, simply will only work with windows. If people don't like it they should get to coding instead of telling people who need windows for their livelihood to "just use something else" 😂 yea sure let me contact HP tuners and just have them make a whole new software special just for me!
Do you have to remove your bottom two ribs to shill for adobe or do they send you to special stretching classes?
Adobe is a shit company, and I'm not giving them any money, but the fact is their programs have features that the alternatives don't. I'm looking forward to the day when they start supporting Linux or an alternate program family steps up with all the features I need.