Looks thumb-uppable

That guy getting his dick sucked?

Probably because they’ve been building their own DE (which will replace their GNOME fork) for a while now. It’s in alpha and hopefully will roll out in the next few months. Having said that, I don’t have issues doing the things I want to do. I think it’s fine for now because 22.04 is LTS, so most app makers support it.

Yeah, I get your reasoning – but there are other distros that match all of that as well. PopOS and ElementaryOS are two that I have personal experience with. Elementary had a rocky upgrade once so I tried PopOS and haven’t looked back. It’s great. Ubuntu minus the crap. The average user (getting recommended mint) probably wouldn’t care about being on the latest release and would likely not even run updates all that often, so even Elementary would’ve been a good choice for them. I have since installed it on my girlfriend’s slow/old laptop and it works very smoothly there compared with windows.

I was kind of kidding, I just think it’s wild that out of all the options, mint is recommended 9/10 times

Pop os is easy and doesn’t look like windows 95

Typical

Weird, op is banned for “ban evasion”.

Sounds like many of the people on my blocklist.

Lol that is cringy as fuckkkkk.

And you couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve ranted about how much I despise Adobe on many, many occasions.

Two things can be true: Adobe is a huge piece of shit parasite evil capitalist bunch of fuckfaces, and some of their products are good even outside of the bias I have by having learned them and being able to use them like second nature. Adobe Illustrator, for example, is a fantastic vector graphics editor.

It must be a hard life you lead, always ignoring practicalities and adhering to ideology. I don’t have the luxury of having 15 hours each day to learn a new Photoshop equivalent. I really wanted to make Gimp work for me but it’s just painful. The day I can figure out all the basic features without a painful struggle, I’ll switch to it in fact.

Insisting other people’s opinions are invalid isn’t the neutral chatter you seem to think it is

What you’re saying would apply if I hadn’t already learned it 20 years ago. This idea implies that for me not to “support” them by giving them no money, I have to learn entirely new, likely less capable software, in some cases. I mean, I wish I had time for that, but absolutely nope.

Pirating their software is not supporting them, not in the least; it’s opposite of it if anything. I’ve tried being nice to you. So now that you’ve rejected that, can you fuck off please?

They aren’t going away anytime soon. “It isn’t worth it” okay well if I can run them I will and it’s very much worth it if I can. Which I have been in a vm. Just sucks getting a performance hit.

Pirate that shit. Never ever give them a penny, I know I won’t after they started the subscription model, destroying my upgrade path. What is your frame of reference? I was trained in design and learned to use Photoshop, illustrator, InDesign, premiere, and after effects. These do not suck. They are industry standard for a reason.

The business practices, bloat, and lack of cross platform support are shit but their functionality is actually pretty stellar. Alternatives exist but are kind of lacking in some ways. I don’t get it when people think the tools virtually every professional uses are dog shit…

Let it die? Windows is 10x more likely to die in the next decade and I’m not counting on that ever happening

Hard disagree. Adobe the company is awful but Photoshop, illustrator and Lightroom are useful. It is enraging the hoops you gotta jump through to sort-of use them on Linux.

I didn’t use a terminal to install Linux 20 years ago…

Op doesn’t run applications, just an os…

Unless you trust Mozilla. I’m unaware of another organization that is more trustworthy, despite the haters mad that CEOs make money.