•  oranges   ( @oranges@lemmy.ml ) 
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    401 year ago

    I technically started with Steam Deck and finally took the plunge of partitioning my daily driver to install Linux Mint back a few weeks ago.

    No regrets…

    I’m a developer (web app predominantly ) and find I can use it for about 80% - 85% of my daily workflow. Things I miss and can’t substitute are mainly around image editing / vector editing where GIMP and InkScape are just not there for the way I work.

    Loving my time with it and would highly recommend anyone on the fence take the dive and give Mint a go. It’s incredibly familiar the moment you boot it :)

    •  tempest   ( @tempest@lemmy.ca ) 
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      191 year ago

      I’ve been on Linux for a while and at this point must people use their computers as glorified thin clients for Chrome.

      This has made Linux way more viable as a day to day OS. Valve is working very hard to make games viable and is seeing some success.

      The major blind spots remain industry specific software outside of software dev. Things like Adobe suite and Microsoft office for example. They often have a Linux equivalent but it rarely fits well into industry standard work flows.

      •  Numpty   ( @Numpty@lemmy.ca ) 
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        51 year ago

        Microsoft office

        I’m rather impressed with the MS Office compatibility and comparability of FreeOffice - https://www.freeoffice.com/ The free version trails the paid by one release… seems like a fair compromise. It’s not pure FOSS, so purists might not like it, but it really gets the job done, especially with rountripping documents. There are always corner cases where things go boink, but hell… things even go off the deep end between versions of MSO.

      • Many of today’s applications are now just web apps. The proportion of actual native applications that users run has been shrinking for a while, and so the differenced in native application support become less important.

        •  zkikiz   ( @zkikiz@lemmy.ml ) 
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          1 year ago

          That’s exactly what he said, and then he also said except for industry-specific software like video editing, graphic design, etc, where big companies don’t offer a Linux version and the alternatives aren’t quite up to par. It’s true there’s Offcie 365 online but it’s still subpar compared to the real deal, like if you’re a PowerPoint or Excel power user or really need Access or another specialized program.

          I’m all for Linux, these big companies have just eaten a lot of the market and refuse to play nice.

          • I distinguish between web applications and thin clients. When I was in the business, a thin client meant you ran everything through one instance of Chrome, but today’s web applications don’t work that way. They each bring their own Chrome with them. It’s much less memory efficient but allows them more control over what version is running their app. Also, many web app based applications still have special extensions to expose features Chrome normally wouldn’t.

            It’s possible the terminology has changed over 10 years.

    •  garrett   ( @garrett@beehaw.org ) 
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      121 year ago

      Welcome to Linux! I’ve been using it since 1996 and doing design using FOSS tools for years. (At first, I needed to a separate computer for Adobe products for years, but switched full time to Linux a long time ago.)

      A couple of quick suggestions of other apps to try:

      • Krita, for image editing & painting https://krita.org/

      • Penpot, for UI layouts (including website design), prototyping, and flow; a great replacement for Figma and Miro. https://penpot.app/

      There’s a big list of FOSS design & photography software @ https://pixls.us/software/

      And a huge list of alternatives @ https://codeberg.org/RayJW/awesome-foss#user-content-creativity (linked to creativity, but there’s tons more on that page)