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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoBeing real though, for most people on actual personal computers, not work devices, linux does everything you need, though with different software in some cases.
If you rely on adobe for personal hobbies, you’re fucked. An ever shrinking amount of games don’t play well with proton. And if you use a pc for your music listening/organization, you’re not going to enjoy things much. That’s it.
Now, switching software like word over to libreoffice can take a week or so of adjustment, but you can write a bloody novel on it. Same with the other libreoffice tools; they do perfectly well.
Yeah, work programs might not be optional, so until the big names start serving the linux market, not everyone will have full choice. But for those of us that aren’t locked into an industry standard piece of software? It’s really not an issue now.
Even when 10 came out, there wasn’t a lot of issue switching over. Gaming at the time was the biggest non-work weakness.
The only thing I haven’t been able to replace and do as well or better with is with audio. Linux doesn’t have any programs that match musicbee.
if you use a pc for your music listening/organization, you’re not going to enjoy things much
False. Rhythmbox is like itunes minus every single thing you disliked about it plus it has flac support.
And if the organization bit was supposed to mean that explorer is better than any standard file manager on Linux… I definitely disagree there too
What if I use foobar and will not settle for anything less?
I have not fully moved to linux yet. Last time I tried it through wine back in 2020 it ran like shit. Deadbeef did not have feature parity either. Wonder how good is it now.
I don’t know what deadbeef or foobar are, but rhythm box is a great music player if you care about music organization and playback
Flac is a low bar for any music player though. I don't know whether itunes support it yet, don't care.
I'm sure Rhythmbox works well for you and that is great. But I also need some niche features which might not be in it.
Mostly conversion and forensic thing.
ape tak tta format, bit compare, audio checksum, mass-tag/batch-tag, replaygain, custom playlist columns, statistic driven field. Don't know what else until I try and find it's missing.
I'm also sure I can get all those and more in different cli tool if I want but getting them in one software is very convenient.
After a quick look, DeaDBeeF might have most of what I want.
- Sort and group the tracks in any order you wish, using advanced Title Formatting scripting, compatible with Foobar2000
Got the date wrong, last time I tried it was 2018. Lot of new features added since then.
Seriously? Foobar is the sole reason to use Windows? Holy fuck.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The great irony is, a lot of the enterprise stuff DOES work on Linux. There’s even a mative Microsoft Teams client. Further, the biggest innovation to Windows lately … has been adding Linux to it with WSL.
Even Microsoft knows Windows sucks and is supporting Linux more than they used to.