The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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I switched to Linux as my daily driver a little more then 6 months ago; is GNOME just a hazing ritual for new users? I switched to Plasma and suddenly every fucking annoying bug disappeared (pulseaudio stopped crackling, chromium programs stopped breaking so hard I would have to restart or my system would freeze, some insane bullshit bug where WoW in Lutris would freeze for like a 10th of a second when I hit one of the Numpad bindings on my retardmmo mouse, shit still works when I wake up the system from sleep, etc etc)

It's not perfect or anything but the only thing I miss is the GNOME clipping tool not gargling dog cocks like Spectacle does but I can probably fix that
 
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Oddjob OTP said:
is GNOME just a hazing ritual for new users
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Depends on the user and the era. I was pro-GNOME until 3.40, but I got on the GNOME 3 train before the Mint spergs forked Cinnamon. I switched to DWM because the GNOME fags started making random, meaningless UI changes (regressions) and I realized it wasn't going to get better any more. I'd generally recommend LXDE these days unless you're a poweruser.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
is GNOME just a hazing ritual for new users? I switched to Proton and suddenly every fucking annoying bug disappeared
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You sure you didn't mean Plasma? Seems like you meant that since you mentioned Spectacle.

and no, GNOME design is just not very human.
 
Hieronymus Lex said:
You sure you didn't mean Plasma? Seems like you meant that since you mentioned Spectacle.

and no, GNOME design is just not very human.
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He switched from Gnome to Plasma and accidentally called it Proton because he had games on the brain. Everyone hates Gnome but it's the default in most distros because it has a consistent release schedule that helps with distro development.
 
analrapist said:
Depends on the user and the era. I was pro-GNOME until 3.40, but I got on the GNOME 3 train before the Mint spergs forked Cinnamon. I switched to DWM because the GNOME fags started making random, meaningless UI changes (regressions) and I realized it wasn't going to get better any more. I'd generally recommend LXDE these days unless you're a poweruser.
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Gnome 2 was great, especially in that early KDE4 era where that was a buggy mess.

There are still some spregs keeping it going as MATE.
 
So what I get from the discussion so far is that there's no consensus on whether Linux is a proper alternative to Windows. Due to performance issues and file size bloat I'm going to be nuking my windows 10 installation soon anyway, whether to reinstall it again, move to windows 11 (something I'm not keen on at all given my experience with win10, as well as complaints I've been hearing about win11) or move to Linux, which I have been researching for the past few weeks, specifically Mint.

Now I understand that there's a steep learning curve but since I'm not retarded I think with some time I'd get to knowing my way around it just fine. My main concern and question is how much time it will take me to be able to run MS Office/Adobe Suite analogous software, which I use for work daily. I also use my pc for gaming, but I'm willing to jump through some hoops and sacrifice older games if it means I'll have a smoother, more stable and responsive OS.
 
eaglesfan665 said:
Now I understand that there's a steep learning curve but since I'm not retarded
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Don't psyche yourself out. I set my 70+ year-old father up with Cinnamon on a Raspberry Pi 4 for a DC-powered rig for his camper and he's been almost entirely been fine with it. Had to show him how to change audio sources once, but his new solution to audio trouble has no issues. He only uses web browsers on the rig, though!
 
eaglesfan665 said:
Adobe Suite analogous software, which I use for work daily. I also use my pc for gaming, but I'm willing to jump through some hoops and sacrifice older games if it means I'll have a smoother, more stable and responsive OS
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Libreoffice and Onlyoffice (not Openoffice) are basically drop-in replacements for Office365, you can try them on Windows before you switch if you'd like. If you need Adobe you need Mac or Windows, although things like Photopea or Gimp can do image manipulation. I've heard Photopea is better than Gimp but I don't know if that's still true for Gimp 3. Kdenlive can do video editing, but it's not great, Davinci Resolve is on Linux, but it doesn't work on every system. Single player games mostly work great on Linux through Proton, and I'm pretty sure older games often work better on Linux since Proton is more compatible with older Windows versions than Windows 10/11 are.
 
volatile puar said:
Libreoffice and Onlyoffice (not Openoffice) are basically drop-in replacements for Office365, you can try them on Windows before you switch if you'd like. If you need Adobe you need Mac or Windows, although things like Photopea or Gimp can do image manipulation. I've heard Photopea is better than Gimp but I don't know if that's still true for Gimp 3. Kdenlive can do video editing, but it's not great, Davinci Resolve is on Linux, but it doesn't work on every system. Single player games mostly work great on Linux through Proton, and I'm pretty sure older games often work better on Linux since Proton is more compatible with older Windows versions than Windows 10/11 are.
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I know this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but, a combination of Markdown/LaTeX for documents and something like pandas+jupyter for spreadsheets ended up feeling very comfortable for me in my undergrad. I had an electronics lab and I was able to auto-generate my lab reports using structured templates, including circuit diagrams, plots, etc. all with one script, and I was able to finish my shit a lot faster than people using google docs or even wolfram.
 
eaglesfan665 said:
My main concern and question is how much time it will take me to be able to run MS Office/Adobe Suite analogous software, which I use for work daily.
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LibreOffice basically does everything MS Office can and I think it comes on a lot of a distros. If it's not on yours by default, you can generally download it right away with a simple terminal command. The only possible issue with switching I can think of is if you absolutely need your files to be in proprietary MS Office formats, in which case that might be a problem. For Adobe stuff, to be honest the biggest legit knock I've heard people make against Linux is that they can't use Photoshop or other Adobe stuff on it when they need it for work. There are other photo editing programs and the like, but they won't work the same way or output the same file formats (I do know GIMP and Krita can open and edit .psd files, but don't know if they can export in that format cleanly).
eaglesfan665 said:
I also use my pc for gaming, but I'm willing to jump through some hoops and sacrifice older games if it means I'll have a smoother, more stable and responsive OS.
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Older games generally work fine. And if a non-Steam game doesn't want to work via a simple Wine setup, it will generally run just fine if you add it to your Steam library and run it through Proton. Go download Proton-GE from github and stick it in the compatibilitytools.d folder inside your Steam folder and then choose that as your compatibility tool for a given game in Steam and it will usually just werk. The main issue with gaming in Steam isn't older games but online games, since several popular ones have anti-cheat systems that will not let you play when running on Linux.
 
eaglesfan665 said:
So what I get from the discussion so far is that there's no consensus on whether Linux is a proper alternative to Windows. Due to performance issues and file size bloat I'm going to be nuking my windows 10 installation soon anyway, whether to reinstall it again, move to windows 11 (something I'm not keen on at all given my experience with win10, as well as complaints I've been hearing about win11) or move to Linux, which I have been researching for the past few weeks, specifically Mint.
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The answer for switching from any OS to any OS is always, "it depends." For casual use, all of them are pretty easy to hop between at this point.
eaglesfan665 said:
Now I understand that there's a steep learning curve but since I'm not retarded I think with some time I'd get to knowing my way around it just fine. My main concern and question is how much time it will take me to be able to run MS Office/Adobe Suite analogous software, which I use for work daily. I also use my pc for gaming, but I'm willing to jump through some hoops and sacrifice older games if it means I'll have a smoother, more stable and responsive OS.
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Adobe is a notorious pain point and people tend to use alternatives which vary in quality. MS Office, it really depends on what you need, you may find you don't need MS Office at all or can just throw it into a VM. I think Excel is the only thing you really lose out on from the entire suite. Ironically, you probably won't have to sacrifice any older games as they tend to run better on Linux these days but there are always exceptions. Newer games with modern anti-cheat are the primary reason people have to give up popular games.

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I was able to finish my shit a lot faster than people using google docs or even wolfram.
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It blows my mind people will slog through Google Docs, MS Office, and almost anything else instead of try something that would be expected to be in their wheelhouse that automates away much of the misery with even better output.
 
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eaglesfan665 said:
So what I get from the discussion so far is that there's no consensus on whether Linux is a proper alternative to Windows. Due to performance issues and file size bloat I'm going to be nuking my windows 10 installation soon anyway, whether to reinstall it again, move to windows 11 (something I'm not keen on at all given my experience with win10, as well as complaints I've been hearing about win11) or move to Linux, which I have been researching for the past few weeks, specifically Mint.

Now I understand that there's a steep learning curve but since I'm not retarded I think with some time I'd get to knowing my way around it just fine. My main concern and question is how much time it will take me to be able to run MS Office/Adobe Suite analogous software, which I use for work daily. I also use my pc for gaming, but I'm willing to jump through some hoops and sacrifice older games if it means I'll have a smoother, more stable and responsive OS.
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There are a lot of options for office suites. Idk your needs and I don't tend to use them anyway. But my recommendation. Is to just try them out. See what makes sense for you and you can stick with that.

Installing is simple. Not real work needed. On mint. You can just use the GUI they have. If you don't want to use apt install.

Adobe. I really have no idea.

Also for office stuff. You can use the Microsoft stuff in the browser if you really want to.
 
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