The rabid amount of Linux fanboyism on Lemmy is quite off putting in general. Any conversation about Microsoft gets brigaded with “Just use Linux!” even if the conversation has nothing to do with it. It makes it a pain to have any decent discourse about things.
Think people who got on lemmy originally lean techy (and thus more likely to use linux and be passionate about it), and people who joined after the IPO thing have more diverse reasons for abandoning reddit.
I am a professional designer with two decades of experience and I gotta admit, you're smoking crack if you think GIMP (the project that is almost entirely held back by its stupid name) is superior to Photoshop.
It might be able to get the job done for small tasks, but it is not a serious tool for serious people. I'm sorry. I'm as pro-FLOSS as anyone can get, and even I recognize that right now there's just no competition in the design department. Affinity is Mac-only, and comes with its own problematic aspects.
Except it really isn't, unfortunately. As someone who fucking hates adobe and Photoshop, GIMP falls far short. Photoshop is made to work as part of a toolkit, and GIMP isn't interested in any form of compatibility. Take, for example, an issue that's been around (and in the bug tracker) since the release of 2.10. Something about the way GIMP handles colors means that most programs can't use alpha channels output by GIMP correctly, and see it as having much higher contrast than it's meant to. The stance seems to be that this is intended behavior. However, this is clearly not the case, as even when only using GIMP, re-importing the image shows that, even though the contrast is correct, data was still lost.
Show me an OSS alternative to Excel that actually does tables, one of the most used, basic functions in excel.
I use tables every day for things like:I have a list of movies, sort them by producer. Or by production date. Or main actor. All these require a a single click on a column, something Open Office devs refuse to ever implement.
I use Linux every day for my servers, but not as my desktop. There's too much stuff like this that I don't have time for.
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agree 100% on gimp. It took me about a year to get used to it and now I have a free license for photoshop at work, but I still prefer gimp 2.8 on my work computer with windows. At home I use Gimp on linux all day nearly every day and do texture editing for games all of the time. Very productive tool.
I think its mostly sunk cost and "i dont want to invest time to learn new things" that keeps people on windows.
Work is a separate thing. My work laptop runs windows, a matter I dont have a say in. But for personal use cases? I feel there are exceptionally few that are more than "i have to change the programs I use and learn how new ones work". And if that's too major a barrier for someone to overcome, good for them. The least they can do is say "I dont want to use Linux because its too much effort".
To a lot of people it's difficult. Vendor lock-in, support, cartels (the old kind) and familiarity are very important factors in choosing what you're going to use to compute things.
We should embrace the new ones and build things that they are going to use.
There are legitimate reasons not to use Linux, but the user interface is not one of them, Linux can be way friendlier UI-wise than windows, see Desktops like cinnamon.
The only issue I have with my Index is that linux somehow prioritizes it over my main monitor when booting so i have to plug it in after booting and then all works fine.
Yeah, linux can be almost anything you want it to be. It'll run faster and look and feel just the same as windows, if not better. The only bad thing, and I say this as someone who's still on windows and will switch soon^tm^, is that there's a lot of work that comes with that.
A friend of mine who's all about linux is always fixing something about his installation. Though from what I know, he's using Arch, which apparently is less stable/needs more work to get going (something about bleeding edge).
Only reason why I haven't changed yet is because of VR and adobe programs. As soon as VR is a bit more seamless and I get replacements for adobe I'm off of windows.
WiVRn from quest app store, wivrn desktop app. I also needed xrizer nightly for secondary gun mode to work in half life alyx. Can't guarantee much else though since I only really play beat saber.
Yeah same for me with my rift cv1 the current driver altough better than before is still pretty bad in comparison to windows like 50fps at best and with other drivers it gets 28 fps.
What Linux are you using? I wanted to do the switch soon to either zorin or buzzite, but I would also like to keep using my valve index. Reading this here makes me reluctant to complete the switch.
I am using opensuse but it is hard to build monado or openhmd with it necause some packages you need to get from fedora because they dont exist or have a version tag with _SUSE which makes it not see that the package is there. I would recommend something more mainstream: Arch, fedora, debian and etc. But bazzite should work I think I succeefully ran my rift on it for a little bit.
If you truly believe a Mac is locked down more than North Korea you need to do some research. And I pray you never find out how locked down North Korea is first hand.
I didn't say that I did. Please don't put words into my mouth.
There’s a million billion reasons to knock MacOS, but saying it’s too locked down in a thread about Linux is wild. They’re both Unix based OSes. They’re siblings. If you’re comfortable enough with a command line to terminal your way through managing Linux then you’re capable enough to terminal your way through MacOS and get it to do anything you could get Linux to do.
And I hope you're not dumb enough to stay on 10 after end of support. The 0-day fallout for the Nintendo 3DS was pretty big, people had been sitting on exploits for months waiting for the final EOL patch to drop. For a higher-value target like Windows 10? It's gonna be terrifying. Get "Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024" from the mass grave if Windows is the only OS that works for you - it has lower hardware requirements and significantly less crapware. But don't stay on 10 past EOL.
Microsoft owns GitHub, which hosts mass graves. If they wanted people to stop using Windows and Office for free, they could make that happen by flipping a few switches. Given a choice between "pirating" Microsoft products and using an alternative, Microsoft wants you to use their stuff for free. Anything but give Linux any oxygen.
It's Microsoft's own activation mechanism, not some backdoor crack. The point is they know full well it exists and are doing nothing to curb it, because they don't want FOSS picking up steam. Microsoft doesn't make their money off consumers. They make their money off enterprises that don't view Linux environments as feasible because all their workers have ever known is Windows.
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Ah. The fuck key. That's the one that most had it's rounds imo. Good memories. Even though I had a legit windows for free back then thanks to my student account.
Doesn't windows eventually shut down every hour when you don't activate it? Or is that just their shitty development VM that does that so I have to reinstall it every 30 days?
i think the only things these days for 'unactivated windows' (home, pro editions) is inability to 'customize the desktop' (change wallpaper, theme...) and occasional activation nags.
it doesn't quit working or shutdown (iirc enterprise or server trials do that after they expire, though) or quit getting updates or anything like that.
I highly doubt they can't stop it and slightly suspect they don't want to. You can install any version of Windows (even enterprise), use MASgrave, wipe the whole thing, reinstall it, and it'll pass online activation as genuine. There's just no way that's an accident.
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"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday announced it will allot $110 million to more than 600 faith-based organizations and nonprofits for security improvements": aol.com/dhs-offer-110m-faith-b… #mismanagement #politics
Mark Knoller, who was a cherished colleague at AP Broadcast and CBS Radio, has died at the age of 73. Mark was the ultimate statistician on the White House beat and it was an honor to interview him for my book about the relationship between presidents and the press. cbsnews.com/news/mark-knoller-…
Mark Knoller was, to put it simply, a legend. For decades, everyone in the White House press corps knew him as the unofficial presidential historian and statistician.
One of my favorite advancements in modern websites for retail stores is that when I am in one of the stores and go onto their website to try to find an item, the website will pick a store at random to be the one to search, and it always actively resists any attempt to change it to the store I'm currently standing in.
120s | f5.6 | 25 mm | ISO 1600 | DMC-FZ1000 | #Lichtzeichnung im Jenaer Volkspark Oberaue am Märchenbrunnen. Entstanden im Fotokurs der Künstlerischen Abendschule Jena.
‘Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza.
– 'I’m Naoise Dolan. I’m a writer from Dublin and I’m about to be on a boat on the Sumud mission. We’re sailing to Gaza to bring provisions to the people Israel is committing genocide against.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition is a massive effort to break the siege on Gaza, and people from 44 countries are taking part. Why am doing it? Because our own government is complicit in the genocide. They refuse to stop aiding and abetting Israel because they are cowards. I’m scared, of course, but Palestinians face far worse dangers every single day of the genocide and they never had the choice that I do, so my solidarity is with them. I don’t want you to be sad or worried about me. I want you to be angry. The other participants and I are doing this because our government isn’t brave enough to sign legislation. I’m not brave, they’re just spineless.
Palestinians are being murdered, and we lose our own humanity if we don’t stand with them.
Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, has announced that she will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. Dublin writer and activist Dolan—t…
Tentano il secondo furto di rame di fila al deposito Terna, intercettati dai carabinieri I tre malviventi si sono dati alla fuga, abbandonando il furgone all'interno del quale c'era ancora parte del bottino
Mark Knoller was, to put it simply, a legend. For decades, everyone in the White House press corps knew him as the unofficial presidential historian and statistician.
Ahead of his official visit to the People’s Republic of China, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a written interview to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
Pizzeria il cui sito dice "Grazie a un lungo studio sulle farine in collaborazione con Molino XXX, l’impasto è fatto con una farina di tipo 0 ad alto contenuto di fibra, lievitato per 48 ore e cotto in un forno a legna appositamente progettato dall’azienda YYY Forni che assicura una cottura dolce, mantenendo la pizza scioglievole e leggera senza l’effetto biscotto” già mi faceva dubitare, ma è molto peggio di quanto pensassi. Uno schifo. E un'organizzazione di merda.
@marcoboccaccio = facciamo la pizza come la fanno tutte le pizzerie (con farina da pizza e forno da pizza), ma anziché dedicare tempo e risorse a farla bene, le dedichiamo al marketing.
@valhalla esattamente. Perché le materie prime un po' contano, ma conta di più saperle usare e saper poi gestire nei fatti e non a chiacchiere un locale. Qui è tutta narrazione, e magari c'è anche chi se la beve, ma di sostanza ce n'è pochissima
@valhalla Noi scongeliamo la pizza in padella,abbiamo visto che è più comodo del forno. Ovviamente con il coperchio sopra e abbondanti rami di rosmarino sotto, così il fondo non si brucia.
I was convinced this had to be fake but he really posted this. I was wondering why he would post this then realized it continues his grand tradition of stiffing contractors.
Probolomyrmex longinodus are a species of ant that nests in snail shells filled with soil. The entire genus is cryptic. Alex Wild has one of the few photos of a living ant:
https://www.alexanderwild.
Réunis à Copenhague, samedi, les ministres des affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne ne sont parvenus à se mettre d’accord sur aucune des propositions en discussion.
Jack Schlossberg: "RFK Jr. only makes sense as a Russian asset."
Me: It also makes sense that one Russian asset (Donald Trump) would appoint another Russian asset to that position. Tulsi Gabbard can also be described as a Russian asset. #subversion #NationalSecurity #politics
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I don't get why people complain about windows when there's CLEARLY an alternative.
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in reply to Vitaly • • •There are alternatives for everything, and most of them are better that the windows-only options. Gimp, for example, is far superior to Photoshop.
That said, some folks do have to use the crappy MS software for work. There's nothing to be done but to pity them.
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in reply to tate • • •I am a professional designer with two decades of experience and I gotta admit, you're smoking crack if you think GIMP (the project that is almost entirely held back by its stupid name) is superior to Photoshop.
It might be able to get the job done for small tasks, but it is not a serious tool for serious people. I'm sorry. I'm as pro-FLOSS as anyone can get, and even I recognize that right now there's just no competition in the design department. Affinity is Mac-only, and comes with its own problematic aspects.
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in reply to tate • • •GIMP is only superior if your goal is moral superiority. If you want to actually get work done, GIMP isn't even in the running.
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in reply to tate • • •Except it really isn't, unfortunately. As someone who fucking hates adobe and Photoshop, GIMP falls far short. Photoshop is made to work as part of a toolkit, and GIMP isn't interested in any form of compatibility. Take, for example, an issue that's been around (and in the bug tracker) since the release of 2.10. Something about the way GIMP handles colors means that most programs can't use alpha channels output by GIMP correctly, and see it as having much higher contrast than it's meant to. The stance seems to be that this is intended behavior. However, this is clearly not the case, as even when only using GIMP, re-importing the image shows that, even though the contrast is correct, data was still lost.
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in reply to tate • • •Excel.
Show me an OSS alternative to Excel that actually does tables, one of the most used, basic functions in excel.
I use tables every day for things like:I have a list of movies, sort them by producer. Or by production date. Or main actor. All these require a a single click on a column, something Open Office devs refuse to ever implement.
I use Linux every day for my servers, but not as my desktop. There's too much stuff like this that I don't have time for.
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in reply to Onomatopoeia • • •Does this LbreOffice example answer your question?
OpenOffice got bought by Oracle apparently so people are jumping ship to LibreOffice.
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in reply to tate • • •agree 100% on gimp. It took me about a year to get used to it and now I have a free license for photoshop at work, but I still prefer gimp 2.8 on my work computer with windows. At home I use Gimp on linux all day nearly every day and do texture editing for games all of the time. Very productive tool.
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in reply to frongt • • •I think its mostly sunk cost and "i dont want to invest time to learn new things" that keeps people on windows.
Work is a separate thing. My work laptop runs windows, a matter I dont have a say in. But for personal use cases? I feel there are exceptionally few that are more than "i have to change the programs I use and learn how new ones work". And if that's too major a barrier for someone to overcome, good for them. The least they can do is say "I dont want to use Linux because its too much effort".
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in reply to somerandomperson • • •To a lot of people it's difficult. Vendor lock-in, support, cartels (the old kind) and familiarity are very important factors in choosing what you're going to use to compute things.
We should embrace the new ones and build things that they are going to use.
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in reply to A_Chilean_Cyborg • • •Yeah, linux can be almost anything you want it to be. It'll run faster and look and feel just the same as windows, if not better. The only bad thing, and I say this as someone who's still on windows and will switch soon^tm^, is that there's a lot of work that comes with that.
A friend of mine who's all about linux is always fixing something about his installation. Though from what I know, he's using Arch, which apparently is less stable/needs more work to get going (something about bleeding edge).
Only reason why I haven't changed yet is because of VR and adobe programs. As soon as VR is a bit more seamless and I get replacements for adobe I'm off of windows.
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in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •What's the alternative then? "dEbLoAtInG" Windows?
It's gonna get re-bloated again and again! And they will add more and more bullshit over time, annoying way more!
Cevilia (she/they/…)
in reply to somerandomperson • • •No, the alternative is to realise you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Or Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024. That has less bloat in the first place.
Or MacOS. That might work better for the individual user's use case.
somerandomperson
in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •1) Win11 IoT Enterprise LTSC is for enterprises, not normal users.
2) macOS needs some sort of mac from apple, and those are ridiculously overpriced and locked down more than north korea.
3) Why would you believe Big Tech? They're lying 99% of the time for profit, heck; they do every bullshit possible on this universe just for money.
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in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •1) The name. The literal name.
2) It was a kinda exaggerated comparison, but my point stands: it is very locked down.
3) Using big tech's products means that you support them. And why would you support something evil?
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in reply to somerandomperson • • •See how that works?
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in reply to Onomatopoeia • • •Result: It's pretty good. I just had to remove edge and tweak a lil bit via christitus's tool.
The only thing i worry about it the 90-day-valid windows licence. Will it go kaboom once it expires, or just become "not activated"?
somerandomperson
in reply to somerandomperson • • •But...
I still don't want to depend on microsoft so... 😛
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in reply to emogu • • •But there's too much apple bullshit saying "no, you can't do that". Like, let me just open the app i just downloaded goddammit! I'm not a moron!
Also, what the fuck can i even customize? I need a window manager or similar experience.
It's also apple-product only. And the one i hate the most, it's closed source.
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in reply to somerandomperson • • •I'll use what I want, when I want, how I want, where I want.
Who are you to demand otherwise?
People like you are the reason other see Linux people as hostile neck beards.
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in reply to Cevilia (she/they/…) • • •I'm still running an XP box... Guess I'm dumb. Smh
Security isn't one thing, it's layers.
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in reply to Pro • • •I love how ez it is now. XP was harder.
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sometimes i forget the names of the people but this XP activation key never leaves my brain
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It used to have it's own Wikipedia page, but now it's just a mention on this page:
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the practice of selling a license authorizing one computer program to be used on a large number of computers or by a large number of users
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in reply to Lauchmelder • • •i think the only things these days for 'unactivated windows' (home, pro editions) is inability to 'customize the desktop' (change wallpaper, theme...) and occasional activation nags.
it doesn't quit working or shutdown (iirc enterprise or server trials do that after they expire, though) or quit getting updates or anything like that.
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in reply to Phoenixz • • •More like Current Year + 1.
There isn't really a year of Linux. It's just consistent growth over time, with some boosts here and there.
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in reply to Pro • • •the ingenious thing is that they are still making buck both ways
the house always wins, remember that Microsoft owns github
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