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Does the same happen in ONLYOFFICE or Collabora? The documents I sometimes interact with might be too “basic” to notice problems. The worst issue I had was LibreOffice Draw freaking out over a PDF, which arguably it wasn’t made for anyway.
Sucks if they still keep protecting their monopoly through software / document manipulation.
Never had the opportunity to use or see one since they don’t cover the European market. Pop!_OS was fine though when I used it, it’s unfortunate you had such problems.
Luckily there are a lot of other vendors as well. Star Labs, Ubuntushop, NovaCustom, even Lenovo and I think HP by now (although their laptops are almost always shit). So there are options.
The potential pain with setups is a reason I like to point people at vendors like Slimbook, Tuxedo Computers or System76. Avoids a lot of possible problems for those who can afford it.
there’s no good DAW on Linux
Now that’s not true though. Bitwig Studio and Reaper f.e. support all the common plugins APIs and are excellent professional DAWs. And then of course you also got Ardour if you prefer FOSS.
Things like Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects have no solid alternative to this day for Linux
I’m not perfectly familiar with Adobe products, but I’m very positive that DaVinci Resolve, Lightworks (literally used by Hollywood), Blender and Natron offer all the functionality those two do. And most likely with less crashes, as far as I heard about Premiere Pro. 🙃
Office uses proprietary file format constraints to lock down their ecosystem.
Didn’t hear about issues with Office Suites in more than a decade. Microsoft famously manipulated their docs to hamper third-party apps in implementing docx support, that’s quite a time ago though.
Unreal Engine, lots games, my audio interface, drivers for obscure small devices I need? I just don’t know and I have to dedicate time to researching all of it.
Yeah, hardware is always a thing especially during a switch. Once you made it of course you can pick new gear that’s known to be supported on Linux by their company. At least with Unreal Engine it’s known to work, and Games by now basically always do except for those with the most vile Anti-Cheat.
I bought a notebook and will try to go CachyOS x KDE Plasma on that
May I suggest to use a more general-use, Ubuntu-based distro? Those often offer way better hardware support for more devices out of the box. That’s one reason they’re called bloated, but damn is it comfy sometimes.
There’s also an additional middleground between them, Slowroll. Still a rolling distro but slower with feature updates for additional stability.
Leap tends to be rather outdated as it keeps binary-compatibility to SLES. Of course makes it as stable as possible, but also more often than not uncomfortably lacking behind.
To be fair, OpenSuse is an umbrella of multiple distros other than Debian and Arch. There are
And then of course the whole Enterprise stuff around SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server). There’s definitely a need to specify what “OpenSuse” actually means in any given context. 😅
I agree though, it’s god damn great. The bootable btrfs snapshots that are set up by default in particular.
Would’ve been nice for them, wouldn’t it? Given they are also the authority for who gets those god damm keys.
Always the same with the corposcum.
What the hell is a “Liberty University”? Do I even want to know?
Unless you have conducted all the experiments leading to that theory yourself, which i doubt, because you don’t have particle accelerators readily available, you will have a basis of “scriptures” and “scholars” whose judgement you trust and follow.
That’s nonsense. The difference is that you can conduct all those experiments on your own, and every further experiment is based upon earlier discoveries creating a chain of rationality. Also, if something is proven to be wrong or phenomenally unlikely we adapt our worldview to those facts, not the other way around. What’s trusted is the scientific method, not individuals and what they wrote. Some scientists simply become more trustworthy as their track record for applying the scientific method is immaculate, both by making discoveries as well as happily accepting when their assumptions were wrong. A well educated and critical mind is absolutely capable to read most studies and get a general understanding of its quality (of course those about particle physics require more knowledge than those about homeopathy). Meanwhile with religious texts it’s inherently impossible to come to any sensible conclusion that isn’t derived from yourself and your own opinions and emotions.
tl;dr Science and Religion are inherently incomparable as one derives truth from systemic processes and measurable facts, while the other derives “truth” from everyone’s worldview and emotional state of individuals. There’s no inherent reason to believe the latter (some random thing about some god).
Bad people instead suffer eternal tinnitus I guess.
If it was this easy we wouldn’t have so many problems. Or, you know, discussions about assisted suicide in cases of untreatable and unavoidable suffering in order to respect human dignity.
Sometimes the pain is here to stay. We all get old, health is a precious privilege and the power doctor’s are wielding is unfortunately limited.
Pretty much any distro can do any of the things Windows/Mac users are hoping a computer can do.
Without knowledge and at least an hour of your time for configuration, CLI-first distros like Arch can’t even play a video - or show a GUI for that matter.
[…] Nvidia GPU […] It’s not super complicated to set up, but it’s definitely going to feel like a foreign experience the first time.
If you’re lucky that means. If you happen to pick a distro / device combo that doesn’t harmonize and the distro didn’t took care of the driver from the start you’ll have a really, really bad time. Especially if it’s a hybrid GPU system. You’re right about picking a distro that comes with it. Options like Pop!_OS, TuxedoOS or Bazzite come to mind.
Given they have an Nvidia and want stuff like the Valve Index to work (so in the best case to have all those super new drivers, libraries installed and stuff) it should be a distro that comes with a lot preconfigured, like the Nvidia driver.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Bazzite in this regard.
Windows Vista.
Oh, oups. That’s a remnance from a meme I made a few minutes earlier. However now Tux is looking towards the text, therefore this was all planned.
I thought you said healthy.
Oh, translation mistake on my side. Is the word “desktop” really still in use for tower computers? 🤔 I only know it for the kind of computing, not the device type.
Anyway, can’t quickly find proper statistics for that. I once read an estimate done by what I think was Valve, that’s obviously scewed towards the gaming bubble though. Still, I think it “only” was about 50-60% desktops over laptops and “other”. They won’t vanish anytime soon though, you can’t squeeze highest performance into a laptop and game streaming only works very selectively.
I’m really curious how it will shift in the future given Linux becomes more and more popular, and that ecosystem is already offering a synergy approach (not just the way SteamDeck does, but also with both GTK and Qt apps able to shift depending on display size and touch capabilities).
According to this data, desktop devices still make well over 50% with over 75% in Europe.
It was somewhat of a special situation back when Gnome 3 dropped. Ubuntu & flavours of it was still regarded as the go-to distro by many and KDE still had a somewhat damaged reputation due to KDE 3 (even though 4 was already available, however that also had some issues). Many environments we know today didn’t exist yet, so lots of people were rather distraught when Gnome broke with a lot of concepts and dropped what arguably was a horrendous DE.
Many of our current DEs are Gnome 2 or 3 forks (MATE, Cinnamon, Budgie, and back then also Unity), made exactly because of this whole debacle.
Same here. Has to be degoogled though.
I see. I mean, there’s always a way how you decide what you want to buy without any hard, arduous research.