good points but it’s not so black and white
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phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Install. Linux.
Yes.
Yes, install Linux, yes, it’s better, yes, it’s a little different, but yes, you will like it better.
Bloat ware? Gone. Antivirus shit? Gone. Spyware? Gone. Reboots for bullshit reasons? Gone. Forced updates? Gone.
Yeah, but it’s so complicated and games don’t work because there are no drivers!
Bullshit. Drivers exist now for just a out everything and most drivers are put of the box, not like windows requiring installs. Most of not all games now work.
But I needy software X!
Many, not all, but MANY software packages out there have open source equivalents that many times are equal or better than what you’re using. If not that, Wine will allow you to run a huge amount of windows software transparently on Linux. YMMV of course but “I need software x!” barely has been an excuse anymore for using windows.
Did I mention it’s actually free, no piracy involved (though if that is your thing, lots of software available for that too)
Windows sucks. Microsoft software in general sucks. Microsoft platforms suck (looking at you there, outlook, teams, office, and SharePoint, oh my frigging god what pieces of shit you are)
sturmblast@lemmy.world 10 months ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Nothing is black and white but in windows vs Linux it’s simple: you want to get your computer back for just you? You want to do whatever the hell you need to do? Switch to Linux and be happy
debeluhar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not always so simple. I would love to use Linux at work, but my work doesn’t allow me to.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I know, I had the same problem.leep asking them. I’m in the luxury position where I’ll be able to decide what we’ll be using
debeluhar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not work as a company, but work I do in the company, that is preventing me from using linux. I am software delevoper, and we are developing desktop WinForms and WPF apps. The main problem here is that both WinForms and WPF are tied to Windows, and they are not working on any other OS. We would love to port those programs to another platform, but you can’t just port programs that are developed 10+ years overnight. Those project are just too big to port them in some normal time. And there are also 3rd party libraries, that we are required to use, that are made for .NET Framework only. I forgot to mention, that we are using .NET Framework, that is working only on Windows. We could use opensource .NET, which works also on Linux, but even in opensource .NET, both WinForms and WPF works only on Windows. We could use Avalonia instead, because it supports Linux also, but even that is not just straight forward. It would be easier to just create new programs from scratch, but you would still need to support older software, and we just don’t have time nor resources to do that.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Interesting. This sounds similar like the company I’m working at right now. They too have all windows desktop apps and I’m working on porting it all to web apps that simply work on whatever you want to use. Granted, this will take (current estimate) a year or 2-3, but then they’ll have an entirely new platform that is a bazillion times better than they have now and it will work with Linux without a hitch
marmo7ade@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Autodesk Inventor I need for work? Non-existent. Have fun playing around tho!
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Will digital combat simulator and my IR head tracking work?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I don’t know, but there is a good chance. Try
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Apparently DCS works (with lots of problems) through wine, but the trackIR doesn’t work and the HOTAS has issues. DAW works but MIDI also looks like a massive PITA…
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I don’t know what HOTAS is but it sounds like something very specific / specialized? Maybe contact the supplier and ask if they have Linux drivers available? A lot of times it’s not that hard to support Linux as a platform.
Mio@feddit.nu 10 months ago
Sure, backup is not something you can skip, but the others: Yes. And the backup option should show other alternatives like Veeam, otherwise they are abusing their position in the market and be banned from EU.
Yes, they dont respect the user choose either. Thinking it is their computer.
Shifting to Linux is a solution but not for everyone. Like IT only support Windows computers to minimize cost.
Me at home: If only I could pay someone to build as smooth fonts on Linux as it is on Windows in the web browser by default. Only when websites use fully custom fonts they look good. But default with new Times roman get unusual small or big without truetype etc. Also many applications in the Linux world have poor UI due to poor funding. Result is no designer and gigantic hit area for button due to too far between the buttons.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’m not entirely sure what you’re talking about but your typical Linux UI tends to look enormously better than windows, beauty being in the eye of the beholder of course.
The way you talk it sounds like you saw Linux 20 years ago and figured it still is stuck there. I have a 3D multi monitor desktop with all the bling you can imagine. Much of it is just that, bling, and I mostly use it to convince people that Linux is awesome (come for the bling, stay for the actual real awesomeness) bit seriously, typical Linux looks SO much better than windows… try KDE desktop, for example.
Mio@feddit.nu 10 months ago
You can on a website with HTML 5 specify exactly the font and how it should be interpreted. Those look exactly the same. Good. But if they are not use then often some old font names are used with no more info than size. If nothing specified then browser default font is used. But what about anti-aliasing and handling the hinting? It is about trick the eye to think something is very round when it in reality it built based on squared pixels. Microsoft Truetype was a must when you made the transition from CRT screens to LCD screens. I have seen websites were the text makes the column wider, into the need row and messing up the whole websites layout due to this. I think what it all comes down is that Microsoft old fonts are therefore still used a lot. On Android it is all okey due to we have such high DPI screens.
Yes, over the last years fonts have improved a lot, making the Desktop look good.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
What you’re saying is something that should be fixed by responsive design and ensuring that your required fonts can be downloaded though your page (source: I built (for over 20 years) and build web page systems myself for a living). Anti aliasing should not cause your webpage to be rendered wrong in any way. Maybe it looks nicer or not, but your layout should not be messed up over that.
Either way, websites these days just send the fonts they want. Don’t start about efficiency on that, people seem not to care anyway, but it does all work. Also on Linux.
I’ve had a Linux only desktop for the last 20 years and I’ve never had issues with any websites
Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My 3080 mobile didn’t work with anything but arch.
I love Linux but even I get fed up with it a lot. I do think that 90% of games work now though.
Everything driver related except my graphics cards have been great.
Just saying though, Linux isn’t a drag and drop replacement, but it’s still good
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’ll agree that Nvidia really needs to get their shit together, but it DOES work
ZIRO@lemmy.world 10 months ago
interesting. I wonder whether that’s specific to the mobile hardware. I have a 3080 running just fine on Mint.
Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It was specifically a problem with the razer blade I had. I can’t remember the exact issue but Arch had the fix in their kernel or something and ubuntu didn’t