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It's not the PC games keeping people so much. Proton solved a lot of that problem. It's inertia.
Most people don't care about things. They just don't. Their brains just don't have the juice.
A lot is professional software. Many people have one or two pieces of software they use a lot which doesn't run on Linux.
This is my issue. There are two specific pieces of software that only run on Windows. Even worse, there is one program that only runs on Mac. So in order to properly do my job, I need to maintain both a Windows laptop and a Mac. And ditching them is virtually impossible, because the Windows machine is used to control/configure a lot of gear, and the Mac program is an industry standard program that virtually every technician is expected to know.
I don't think that's actually very many people. Not for their personal computers. Most people don't run much more than a web browser, if they don't play games.
People tend to use the stuff they're already used to. They could probably use Linux but if they buy a Laptop which has Windows preinstalled and they're used to Windows it's hard to get them to make the jump
Right. Inertia is the metaphor I used to express that idea.
i miss photoshop. not enough to boot into my windows partition, but it sure would be nifty if it would just work on linux. krita is decent but danggit, not the same
You prefer Krita over GIMP for photoshopping tasks?
i got both but decided to first learn krita as i like drawing more than image manipulation. though i'll be needing to hop into gimp soon i feel, as krita's text editing options are clunky at best
Dark room is another open source alternative.
darkroom is the open source alternative to lightroom, both are vastly different from photoshop
But if you were a professional photoshopper I'd imagine you wouldn't work with Krita all day.
as in i didn't used to work with krita all day or i wouldn't be working with krita all day now?
You wouldn't work with Krita all day right now
well i used photoshop for a solid 8 years so i'd consider myself at the very least an advanced amateur
i don't need it for work right now, but i used to
It's nifty on Windows where I can run all kinds of other professional productivity programs. I went back to Windows because Linux can't deliver and likes to break on updates. -Someone that loves CLI and didn't mind that about it.
The bigger problem is that most people just aren't up for installing an OS themselves. I've certainly never had the chutzpah to replace Android, and I'm more tech savvy than most
100%. I think a lot about one of my friends when trying to think about that kind of user. Smart lady. Advanced degree. Has her life together. Would absolutely not want to try to install an OS. Wouldn't even know how to start.
But I'm confident if I handed her a Linux laptop, she'd use it just the same as a Mac or Windows machine.