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I'm waiting for baited breath for ONE work-related app to have a Linux version before jumping ship on my main computer.

Linux is on every other platform at my home, I just want to be 100% free :(

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[โ€“] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 106 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol, okay that's subtle but clever.

[โ€“] AugustWest@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sorry to ruin the joke, but could you explain? I know what SickOS is on the surface, but donโ€™t really get this.

[โ€“] TheBat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] AugustWest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the context. Though I am going to have to take another look at this when I am more sober.

[โ€“] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I am sober and I was actually just thinking I should try again once I have had a few.

[โ€“] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's just a clever wordplay on the original meme as far as I'm aware. Instead of "sickos" as it is in the usual meme, it says "SickOS", as if it a distro of Linux. Idk if there is actually a distro called SickOS.

[โ€“] AugustWest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gotcha, I guess I have just never seen the usual meme. SickOS is a thing though, itโ€™s a pentesting practice tool, a purposefully vulnerable system to practice skills on.

Good variation.

[โ€“] Dagnet@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Real microsoft turns it on by default, makes it a huge pain to turn it off AND reenables it every update.

[โ€“] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Honestly I have to begrudgingly dual boot windows a few times a month to use certain software for freelancing work, so I bought an enterprise windows 11 key from a grey market vendor for like 12 bucks and then used group policy to disable copilot everywhere it was possible

[โ€“] frog@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

Oh I see.

I guess I'll turn off updates then.

* starts crying *

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago
  • forced updates
[โ€“] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago
[โ€“] mech@feddit.org 18 points 2 days ago

You've got to give Microsoft some credit: At least they published a fix for any issues you may have with Windows:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install#create-a-bootable-usb-drive-to-install-bare-metal-linux

[โ€“] Overspark@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Can't you run that one app under WINE or something? Or even a Windows VM if you really need to...

[โ€“] cattrigger@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's the Adobe Creative Suite, I have to use it for my job. Many warriors have valiantly fought to try to get Photoshop to teeter onto WINE, but I have yet to see anyone get the entire suite into a stable state. There is that AENux thing that someone is trying to do for After Effects, but it's still in super early stages... done by one developer for probably Adobe's most resource demanding app.

All the other apps I rely on can either run on WINE or have their Native Versions. I'm tied to either Windows or Mac for my main desktop until then.

[โ€“] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

At some point, one might consider a remote desktop setup. Itโ€™s easier to get a strong GPU that way, anyway.

Alsoโ€ฆ you can dual boot.

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 3 points 2 days ago

Have you considered using a VM?

[โ€“] guismo@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck adobe.

In other news, try Krita and node based video editors that run natively in Linux.

But sequence based editors... Yeah, it's tough. There is Kdenlive and Blender, but for serious jobs it make it difficult.

I would say adobe is the biggest stone on Linux shoes. The brainwashed with their office braking compatibility would be easily fixed just ditching microsoft, gamers just don't want to switch to something that works. But adobe, with all their patents are a big issue. The moment a real alternative comes up they will sue.

I literally changed jobs to not have to deal with adobe.

But Krita is pretty good.

[โ€“] cattrigger@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Iโ€™m not arguing that thereโ€™s isn't better alternatives that CAN run on Linux for most of Adobeโ€™s apps (Inkscape has gotten really good, and I love Krita), but its what the industry has settled for their standard.

But on top of that, since I work a ton in After Effects, there hasnโ€™t really been a real alternative to it. You can have Blender do some of the things in it, and Davinci in some other things, but its a bloated beast of mixed use-cases all in one fancy app that nobody has really attempted to replicate.

[โ€“] guismo@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, that's what I said. For sequence editors you're in trouble. Specially if you have to share files with others.

That's why fuck adobe. Fuck them 100 million times. I hope all their ceos and shareholders and whatnot die a slow, painful death.

Same to microsoft, 3dsmax and others, but adobe is a personal pain.

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[โ€“] FireWire400@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Can't really do that for apps that need a discreet GPU

[โ€“] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You should be able to with a second GPU and pass through, no?

[โ€“] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Don't think there's an easy way to do this

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[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What about that 16 bits commandos like western styled game?

A bit joke, a bit serious actually, it doesn't even work on a modern windows :-/

[โ€“] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Try DOSBox for that kind of thing

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Dosbox on Linux? I'll give it a go, thank you!

[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm seriously considering Linux for my next laptop and I haven't upgraded to 11 for my current one.

I've had to use 11 for work and I have yet to see any functionality to make it worth it. If anything, 11 feels like a downgrade.

[โ€“] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

I've just ordered my new Linux laptop

[โ€“] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

11 is horrible. Forced to use it for work. None of my home pcs have windows anymore. Likix is so great. Just set aside some time to learn it, its not windows, dont try to operate it like windows, and you'll be much happier.

[โ€“] kif@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago

My current job gives us a laptop with Ubuntu, but allows us to, at our own risk, install whatever OS we like. I recently turned down an offer primarily due to Windows being required (PHP and C# shop).

[โ€“] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it's all been downhill after 7.

[โ€“] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 10 points 2 days ago

Damn that character is terrifying, well done. I might have to check out your horror games now

[โ€“] nialv7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Do you think working on these sort of things hurts developer ~~moral~~ morale? Or do you think nah.

Maybe all of those developers who would be against this have already been laid off.

[โ€“] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Morals or morale? Because morale yea, big tech just does that to you to be honest. I know a lot of people who burnt out from this

Moral I don't know, I guess most people already hate their product they're developing but these jobs pay the bills.

[โ€“] nialv7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

oops, i meant morale.

If there's devs putting up working for Musk at X, then you will find some devs that will put up with anything. I am willfully ignoring developing unmanned killer robots and other such nightmares.

[โ€“] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Okay The discourse makes sense now

[โ€“] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have not logged into my Microsoft for a long time. And I'm too afraid to do so.

[โ€“] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Same here with my Apple

[โ€“] bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

That escalated quickly ha ha!

[โ€“] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

All you're gonna do, Microsoft, is remind me to go to Copilot, tell it to die, and then uninstall it.

[โ€“] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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