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This is a frustration of mine with software. We make all these gains with hardware just to occupy the new capacity with cruft. I just want the same interface from Y2K that runs so fucking fast my eyes can’t keep up with my fingers.
Try Linux.
I switched when the windows context menu had to ask washington for permission to open. Some days it took 10-20 seconds. Repeatedly.
Well, it was one of the reasons, now it's all snappy and predictable on my 6 gen intel mint linux.
I have, but unfortunately have to run Windows.
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Yeah, it is a case with proprietary shit thats only available on microslop. Its an endless cycle where we are being forced to consume slop on top of slop. This lock-in is strategic so that users of specialised software have no other choice.
What are the odds it’s employer mandated spyware to make sure they aren’t automating their mundane tasks. Or finishing their work in the first 2 hours of the morning and running errands/ chores the rest of the day.
This is actually quite possible. There where cases where this occurred. I would say that this is more so true within the age of AI. Work smart not hard is essentially an oxymoron in some of these companies, as exploitation is what they crave.
They need the remaining 30% of their staff to carry the whole load. AI intent there to make work easier, it’s supposed to make fewer workers more productive (profitable for investors).
This is literally what Linux is always like and it never slows down even after decades. It boots and shuts down in about 3 seconds each. Join us; I spent a lot of time typing a foolproof guide recently. Let me see it actually get used lol!
I just played a game on Steam earlier tonight with friends; it launched WINE under the hood so invisibly that I couldn't believe I wasn't playing it on Windows. Nearly everything is cross-compatible these years.
I did not use your guide as I do not need it, but if I did need it, it would be exactly the kind of thing I would be looking for.
No adobe so no photoshop, no 3dStudio, no MSVC.
So I have one "windows box" for that.
The added bonus is it's such a fresh experience to go back to linux every time 😁.
There are worthy alternatives to photoshop and 3dstudio max. Even if you /really/ need it, they can be run in wine or a vm.
Well not really, I'm "relearning" Krita but there is still some stuff lacking, making it a drudgery to use (fine software though!).
And there is no real replacement for 3dstudio and it won't run in wine/vm.
I'm sure I'm probably wrong, but what about Blender?
Blender is fantastic software and a good place to start learning non-parametric modeling, but if you're already used to 3DSMax it's a massive learning curve because of how different the interface is. Like you have to unlearn stuff.
It's worth the effort IMO but not everyone has the discipline to do it.
Software is like a gas: it expands to fill its container.
Well on the dim side, AI companies are buying up all of the new hardware. So we either get software that is somewhat efficient or we eventually move to "computers" that are just streaming sticks we use to access a Microsoft® Copilot® 365® Windows® 12® Azure® Cloud Desktop Experience Subscription Service computer.
Bring back timeshare computers!! /s
But that's their wet dream btw.
That's not a wet dream, that's exactly what tech corpos are trying to do. Own nothing, rent timeshare.
This made me physically ill.
Happening with games too... I'm tired of developers just lowering the resolution and turning FSR on by default instead of even trying to optimize