Fuck yeah! It is very good. Just needs a wee bit more app support and I’d already be 100%.
If you switch they will come
what app? chances are there’s a linux equivalent that’s way better, more powerful, and harder to learn….
for me it’s DAWs… bigwig studio runs on linux and is pretty nice, but i just want abletonYeah, DAWs are definitely one of those niche things that keep people using Windows. I’m an Ableton user as well, and it’s one of a few Windows apps that I struggle to replace.
My wife teaches post-secondary, and stays on Windows because all of the commercial CAD software is for Windows. (AutoCad, Sketchup, Pro Tools, etc.)
Academics can get Siemens NX CAD licenses at a very low nominal fee. Version 12 or lower runs on REL, SUSE but also will run on OpenSUSE.
Newer NX versions dropped GUI support for Linux, just headless cad for batching work.
Maybe they will bring it back once the X and Wayland transition is complete.
Which app?
Dirac Live. I have a PC license and while I have found DSP alternatives, they are very difficult to get to work, and the results are never as good.
I’m waiting until I upgrade my AVR and will run Dirac off that unit directly, then it’s off to Linux Land Purity.
Babe, that was last year 😊
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Switched 10 years ago. Nearly everything anyone does on a desktop/laptop is browser based lately and while I missed a few Windows exclusive applications there was always a reasonable alterative.
My only regret is not trying harder to make the switch in the 00’s, I would have been ahead of the game and could have used it as a career path.
We just need better support by some laptop manufacturers (looking at you Asus)
You should know about this. I’ve using various distros on my G15 Zephyrus for years now, and it’s working great. I’d recommend CachyOS.
Thanks, yeah I used this in order to her CachyOS on my M16 Zephyrus, however it would be fantastic if Asus would offer Linux support like they said they would several years back.
Tried just last year. Nope
Clip Studio Paint doesn’t work on Linux, and neither does Paint Tool Sai (which are the only art programs I’m extremely familiar with) and a lot of game developers with kernel anti-cheats do not want to develop for Linux due to the lack of a fully secure environment in the OS. In fact, someone could actually make a Linux distro with its only focus being cheating. However, if Valve manages to create an actual secure enviroment in SteamOS (and I do trust them to find a way) and exports said environment to other Linux distros, we may actually see games like Battlefield 6, Valorant, GTA V, and Call of Duty on Linux.
If that ever happened I would never, ever use Windows again.
I ended up making the choice to just avoid the games that don’t work under Linux. They seem to all be almost exclusively AAA twitch shooters that require far too much from me as a player anyway.
The only way I can vote on the topic is with my wallet.
That’s valid. I’ve played twitchy shooters since I was like 8, so it’s pretty much what I’m most used to.
due to the lack of a fully secure environment in the OS
Allowing kernel-level access to programs is the exact opposite of a “fully secure environment”.
The “reasons” these publishers give to force kerbel-level anti-cheat onto players are complete fabrications to cover up the fact that they’re too cheap/lazy to implement server-side anti-cheat and also want to monitor your computer to sell your data
I know server side anti-cheat is way better but at this point the only way to stop kernel anti-cheats from being the “best” way is government regulation. Literally no one cares about the security concerns of something like Riot Vanguard knowing everything you do on your computer, and server side anti-cheat has a more expensive overhead and suits aren’t going to want to spend more money.
Use Winboat to run windows programs that have Wine issues:
Windows isn’t a secure environment, it’s just that it’s centralized enough in Microsoft that they can require all code to be signed by Microsoft and hardcode kernel signatures in the TPM. In terms of actual security against viruses and spyware, Linux is much more secure.
If you’re okay with Microsofts AI slowing down your computer and watching everything you do, then I guess the centralization and integration with big gaming companies makes it a more capable gaming system than Linux.
Personally, I couldn’t give a fuck about Battlefield 6. Trump’s son in law can keep his crappy AAA games.
I think that’s what Valve might actually try to do with SteamOS, actually. They might require code to be signed by Valve to not be malicious, and I’d trust Valve with that type of power way more than Microsoft.
And while I do use Windows 11, I recently reinstalled it and the first thing I did was delete any and all AI stuff from it AND run scripts to prevent them from coming back.
The down votes are because you are conflating terms. Linux has secureboot, allowing anticheat into the kernel is not secure. But I get what you mean, you mean a kernel that allows infiltration to check for cheats…that is something different
