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eatCasserole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know this is unsolicited advice, so feel free to ignore me, but I am an expert on these things so here’s my take:

  Before you switch to Linux, start switching your apps to ones that you know will work on Linux. It’ll make the process much easier for ya! :-)

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  • eatCasserole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The only hurdle here is design software. I use Affinity mostly and it’s great, but they don’t have Linux apps. I did manage to get Affinity Designer running with Wine at one point, but it wasn’t particularly stable.

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  • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve been on Linux as my primary OS for around a year now. I’m still looking for a replacement for Lightroom and camera raw that doesn’t absolutely crush any image I’m working on.

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    • eatCasserole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you tried raw therapee? At least for what I do I find it to be an excellent Lightroom replacement.

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      • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have, but with terrible results. Can you recommend some tutorials? The behavior of various tools always surprises me, coming from Adobe raw and Lightroom.

        For example, reducing contrast in Adobe tones down highlights and shadows while doing that in dark table and rawtherapee turns everything washed out and grey.

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      • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ART, a fork of RawTherapee, is also very good.

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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve seen people on the internet suggesting Darktable as a solid Lightroom replacement… I don’t know anything about photo editing, but am curious - how bad is it?

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      • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        From darktable’s FAQ:

        Is darktable a free Lightroom alternative?

        No. Other than both being raw editors with DAM features, and looking somewhat similar, they have very little in common. Darktable is a powerful and flexible raw processing toolbox, that leaves the user in charge of their workflow and provides a level of power and control that few others can match. This also means that the initial learning curve can be steep, since very little workflow and tool knowledge can be transferred from other programs.

        www.darktable.org/about/faq/

        In my personal experience it’s pretty good, but I’ve never used lightroom nor do I have nearly any idea what I’m doing with RAW processing, or photography in general, but I’ve been happy with the few photos I’ve put through it!

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    • Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Best of luck in that case!

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    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Since 2003 here.

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  • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For sure. Linux has a lot of great apps but there are times where it’ll become incredibly frustrating. For example, file explorers can be basic & frustrating… The best you’ll prob get is Dolphin.

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    • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve only used Nemo in Linux, but I can’t think of anything Windows file explorer can do that it can’t.

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    • SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isn’t Windows File Explorer considered basic? It only just got tabs in 11 right? That and clicking on a disconnected network share would cause it to hang for a good few minutes.

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      • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It isn’t perfect by any means, but compared to Nautilus & many others, it still has a lot of benefits that make things quicker overall.

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    • Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I still contend that the best file browser ever made is the macOS Finder. When someone makes something that good for Linux, I’ll be very happy

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      • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I used treesize once to clean up my computer. That’s what a file system should be like.

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      • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Genuine question, is this trolling or do you seriously believe this?

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      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What. What?? Finder is the fucking worst. It doesn’t have a sensible tree view, does it?

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Linux has the best file manager I’ve found on any platform: Krusader. It has twin panels, and a lot of the functionality is bound to FKeys: F2 Rename, F3 View, F4 Edit, F5 Copy, etc. F9 will open a terminal in the current directory. You can edit text files from within Krusader. I’ve even done it on a remote filesystem over SSH.

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      • helios@social.ggbox.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I tried this, it’s nice indeed. The layout will require some getting used to for me, but I like how it lets me add my remote server as sftp bookmark and open files from there pretty seamlessly, even videos.

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      • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m have to give this a look!

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• Saleh@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I recommend you to do the switch now. Linux is more accessible than ever and there is no reason to give them any more of your data. Also it helps you to transition step by step where it might take a bit longer to get used to a different way of doing things.

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  • eatCasserole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I actually do have Linux installed on a spare drive. I haven’t booted it up for a bit, but I’ve started getting used to how stuff works. I should boot it up again.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve been considering Linux for a while now, but I play games between 4 and 8 hours pr day. Is Linux and gaming still a problem or?

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    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nope, look into Bazzite for an easy Linux distro to set up

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most Indie games work fine. It is just the AAA crap that somehow can’t be bothered to make their stuff work on anything but Windows.

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    • Darxium@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It depends on the game, although the overall situation has improved recently. Multiplayer games tend to have more issues due to their anti cheat software, which often doesn’t support Linux.

      I recommend you check these pages for compatibility in your preferred games in case you want to try:

      • protondb.com
      • areweanticheatyet.com

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    • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Depends on the game really but sometimes you have to spend a lot of time & research on things to figure it out. Great that it is open source but companies like Microsoft also work to sabotage efforts at times. If it has multiplayer with anticheat, you’ll prob find a lot more instances where things don’t work or require more effort.

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    • TerHu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      honestly, most of the games i wanna play are totally fine and might run even better on linux. what is something to keep in mind is anti linux anti cheat: areweanticheatyet.com besides, you can check www.protondb.com to get a rough overview of what you can play. out of all the games i’m playing only one isn’t working rn, cuz the screen ratio is messed up (it’s a small rather unknown game) but really many games are fine. i use steam and heroic games launcher, and they’re great. f nvidia tho. they can be a true pain in the butt (on windows too though…)

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    • uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Depends on the game and your hardware. Most games runs just fine under proton. Valve have done a great job there.

      Hardware has never been an issue for me but I read here somewhere that they had 10-15% less performance on Linux. ymmw.

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    • chrash0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ngl, sometimes it is. it depends on the game. usually the problem is anti-cheat, but Valve has been working on improving that with many games working out of the box today. i’d say if you’re playing single player games, once you get Proton installed it’s virtually the same experience.

      check out www.protondb.com

      if your games are gold or above on there, i’d go ahead and pull the trigger.

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    • fieryhamster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Use SteamOS. Your use case requires it.

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      • jayb151@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Does steam os have a regular desktop mode? I saw ETA prime install steamos on a mini gaming pc yesterday, but never mentioned using it with a mouse and keyboard.

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