As an architect, let me know once Linux supports autodesk products and adobe products. Until then I gotta stick with windows.
I have the strong urge to point out it’s the other way around; Adobe and Autodesk have to support Linux. You’re of course right though, with the strong lock-in effect from those big companies it’s almost impossible to switch unless done on company-level. And even then project partners will expect files to be in a specific (proprietary) format most of the time.
It was really disheartening to see Ondsel ES fail, it was a valiant attempt at creating a business-grade Open-Source CAD solution based on FreeCAD. Unfortunately Autodesk’s monopoly extinguished any attempt at finding funding, despite existing interest by those who actually use that stuff (I assume Autodesk is fucking expensive like any monopoly software…). Education, Production, Distribution… those few big companies own and control literally every part. It would probably take both governmental effort as well as some kind of soft UI-standardisation to crack these power structures.
Autodesk I understand but the adobe suite sucks major donkey balls anyway
It’s TruckersMP for me because it’s built on .NET libraries and I can’t get truckersmp-cli to load my DLCs for whatever reason :|
Lmao stealing this
Indeed it is brother… indeed it is.
Video games.
video games work pretty well in general
Unfortunately, my vr headset requires a piece of middleware that is not Linux compatible. But, by the time 10 LTSC reaches end of life, Deckard should be available for purchase.
Also, I’ll need to re-pirate substance painter for avatar work, as GenP doesn’t do Linux either.
What headset? Most headsets work fine now. I had some issues with an old WMR headset (HP Reverb G2), but even Windows doesn’t support WMR anymore so it’s basically dead. Went with a Quest 3 eventually and it works great with WiVRn (ALVR works as well, but it’s a bit more clunky).
Pimax. Fantastic FOV, but wide and clunky, and the rest is just meh.
When you’re Canadian, European or basically not a US citizen, that alone should be enough reason not to use windows…don’t give your money to greedy corporate overlords of a dictatorship
shitty anticheat protected games where the dev has specifically chose to block linux?
I side-loaded Mint for a couple hours just to goof around, and then . . . never booted Windows again, quite literally forgot it was installed three days later
Sounds just like my last dual boot setup, as well.
I believe I said “I’ll just boot back to Windows next time I want to play…this game…that just launched and played perfectly under Proton…or…this other game…which also works…huh…”
Literally just steam VR in home streaming is all I need to fully dump windows.
I’m going to give you the secret to switching. Go all AMD for your build, and leave everything you know about Windows software and how it works at the door. Learn to use Linux. Expecting it and Linux software to work like Windows is the pitfall.
To be fair. In my experience, everything mostly does work like in windows. But I always think it’s like attributing Windows switching to Linux as Mac to Windows.
Mac users are used to not dealing with the registry, lusrmgr, local group policies in the same way Windows users aren’t used to dealing with fstab, grub, proton, wine, various desktop environment tweaks.
I feel like a stuck record saying this, but if there was a serious contender to Group Policy on Linux I honestly think Windows in the workplace would be dead in five years.
I’m convinced everyone on Lemmy works IT
I’m convinced they all live in the moms’ basement eating chicken tendies.
I guess both of these are confessions then
Observations.
Negative. Windows on Desktop uses vendor lock-in to maintain it’s user base. It’s been that way for nearly 30 years. People only think they are choosing Windows themselves. Anywhere Microsoft can not enforce vendor lock-in, Linux dominates. Even IoT, a brand new market (well it was brand new ten years ago), 80% dominated by Linux. Microsoft had to make Windows free for IoT and 9" or less devices just to try and be competitive. People only think everything is made for Windows, because OEMs are forced to sell a Windows license with every PC or lose their volume licensing deals. That means every OEM has to spend engineering dollars on Windows drivers, software, and testing. When your business has very thin margins, you can’t afford to have second or even third engineering efforts for competitor OSes. Imagine how Linux would be if PC companies were spending engineering dollars on Linux for the last 30 years. Right now the money comes primarily from server sales money. If there was demand for Linux on Desktop in the workplace, there would be tons of competing FOSS Group Policy implementations.
What about YaST?
I’ve seen YaST used at a distance and I think it’s up to the job of managing servers and headless systems but, seriously, it’s not even close to Group Policy. I not trying to sound dismissive of alternatives - I really do want a FOSS replacement - but it is hard to overstate how flexible and granular Group Policy is.
For what it’s worth, Ubuntu integrates ADsys, which allows for dconf updates through gpo templates. I’ve not heard anything on it for a while but the github repo was last updated 6 months ago
Audio production/editing. You can switch to mac but not to linux at the moment. Well, you can do on linux like 80% of what you can on windows by using Wine, but certain apps and plugins are incompatible right now. The one that holds me back is Izotope RX suite, which is a de-facto standard for audio restoration/clean-up, and it’s all because of their drm (even the cracked versions have the drm merely bypassed, but it still crashes during the initialization, at least it was like that when I last tried it a couple of months ago).
That doesn’t seem true unless you already require specific software or plugins. If you’re just getting into it and still have the ability to choose freely without losses, DAWs like Bitwig Studio, Reaper, even Ardour will get you there. There’s a wide range of fully working DACs, now with the Pipewire audio backend you don’t have to meddle with Pulseaudio and/or Jack anymore either. There’s also a wide range of plugins etc. Collected some info about those a while ago (when I thought I had time for extensive blogging, lol).
To be fair, that’s all for audio production, not necessarily restoration(?). Perhaps you know something about that specific niche I don’t.
You are correct, you can do a lot of stuff in Linux already, but not everything. If you’re just starting it may not be that big of a problem, but if you’re already accustomed to certain tools, switching to an alternative may be very troublesome, especially if you have paying customers for this type of stuff and risk missing the deadlines or delivering an inferior result because the alternative isn’t as good yet or the compatibility layer decides to break at the most inconvenient moment.
Also I don’t know about DACs, but from my understanding it’s a coin toss whether the audio interfaces will work properly on linux, snd sometimes you need to record stuff. I haven’t seen any big manufacturer providing linux drivers for the interfaces, and AFAIK some pro-level interfaces only work only with the proprietary drivers. Again, not that big of a hurdle if you’re just starting, but if you already paid 1000$ for an interface and it turns out to be incompatible, it’s a bummer, to say the least
U can use bitwig (native linux version) with https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge and cracked version izotope https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6656658 https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6575804
Or ableton which works fine in wine nowdays
I use Reaper, and Reaper itself works fine. It also has native support for Linux. I will try this specific cracked version of Izotope though, thanks. Hopefully I’ll have better luck with this version than with the one I tried before
For audio editing, you don’t need windows, neither linux, that’s still the best on mac, but you need to be filthy rich
Well, mac is the best, but windows isn’t that far behind in this niche. And yeah, I’m not throwing away my Ryzen 7700/RTX3060 build and spending one fuckton on mac hardware just to get rid of windows, thank you
Hackintosh is still an optiom
For me it is the malwares. Other platforms do not stand a chance against windows.
Agreed, my malware collection would never be this big if I couldn’t use Windows.
“My collection of rare, incurable diseases! Violated!”
Like you want a lot of malware? O.o
Only cute ones :3
I’m so close to making the switch. I’m just a poor soul though who enjoys games with those annoying anti-cheats. Thinking about trying to do a duel boot just for those specific scenarios.
Thats what I have. I suggest you take 2 different drives. Makes your life a lot easier.
Yeah, windows does NOT like other systems on its drive, with separate drives it won’t steal boot
It sometimes will still decide to murder your boot manager.
That’s why my machine defaults to Linux and if I want windows I have to hold f11 on boot to load my motherboard’s boot selector and select my windows drive.
It’s not fancy like GRUB or anything, but I don’t interact with it much and it gets the job done.
I agree, dualboot is something you shouldn’t even attempt between linux and windows on the same drive. With some time, one, or both systems will totally break
Definitely duel boot. I always like to keep my options open.
duel boot
Lmao Linux and Windows sitting there like ⚔️ ⚔️ ⚔️
Fighting over the MBR.
I realized that after I hit post. Autocorrect is weird on some apps lol
Just a PSA, The Finals is playable on Linux and is F2P with a very reasonable monetization (cosmetic only with some free cosmetic options as well) and the new season just began.
For me it scratches that multiplayer itch because the destructible environments make matches feel very dynamic.
How it’s the community? I expect a good bit of toxicity with any online but if it’s not flooded with kids like fortnite I’d assume it’s not too bad.
And what about the mtx? Is it aggressive or annoying?
I would say the community is much better than what you would expect from Call of Duty or Destiny or anything looking to hit super mainstream. I think most toxic players won’t play the game because the game has a high effective TTK. The average encounter is around probably 1-2 seconds because you usually need to hit more than 5 shots and your opponent has enough time to react and use movement to make them a harder target to hit. The higher TTK may be a deal breaker, it was for a lot of people during launch, but I personally enjoy it.
I think the MTX is pretty mild. It’s all cosmetic so they don’t impact the core gameplay at all, which means if you don’t care about cosmetics your only interaction with the MTX is the little sale window on the top left of the main menu. You can earn some in game currency to buy cosmetics but because it’s F2P their only revenue streams are the battlepass (which again is also strictly cosmetic rewards or in game currency) and the cosmetic shop. Some things are only for real cash and they can look expensive (like $20 for a pack of cosmetic items) but they usually come with in game currencies so if you’re planning to use the in game currency as well that $20 usually drops to $7-$8 which for 2025 isn’t actually that much. I forgot to mention, the battlepass can be bought for the in game currency so what I’ve done is bought the $20 thingy and the use most of the in game currency to buy the battlepass.
Thank you for the informative and detailed response!
I think I was rambling a bit. I think the best course of action is to just give it a try because I think the gameplay is the biggest make or break for people. If you don’t enjoy the gameplay then it doesn’t matter if the game isn’t a toxic mess and not really predatory with the MTX.
I heard about it recently, I think someone said some of the devs from the earlier battlefield games made it. Or were part of the team or something
Yeah, Embark was founded by the former CEO of DICE so I imagine quite a lot of DICE talent moved to Embark.
hdr and mod organiser 2
HDR works fine with Plasma (KDE). Regarding MO2, do you think the Nexus Mods app could eventually replace it? They work on a native client that already supports a few games.
I’ve no clue I’m hoping on nma but it still only supports 2 games after all this time and both nmm and vortex were absolutely god awful if vortex worked it’d be fine as that works on Linux apparently but mo2 has a third party wine installer script that kinda works but fomod installers don’t work so it doesn’t really work it’s kinda useless but yeah I’ll just have to wait and see on nma
