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Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by omnimus »

adrienne wrote: post #184
tomc1985 wrote: post #90

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Not necessarily. I've read from several who have successfully replaced Photoshop with The GIMP. (I've done this, though I still do photo work in LR). Inkscape has come a long way, and there are multiple, competing (and very competent) Lightroom replacements for digital darkroom work. I don't know how fleshed out the DTP side of things are but as a amateur photographer and graphic designer I've been able to get away w…

Anyone whose workflow is InDesign-heavy or Illustrator-heavy is shit out of luck, though; there is no reasonable replacement for either, and especially not for InDesign.

this is so true. If you are photographer then you are ok onn linux.

If you want to make books profesionaly there is no replacement for indesign. Scribus doesnt have multiline paragraph composing. So technicaly if you want to set something to the block, you will get always better result in indesign. 3D and photography are interesting to programmers but books... they make them with TeX. But with tex its hard to do columns and more complicated composition. One way could be scribus latex render windows but its somehow shitty.

Its too niche thing i guess.

Same goes for After Effects - node based composing is fine on linux but layer based for animation (motion graphics). AE only thing on the planet.

Its getting frustrating especialy with recent decline of mac os and mac hw. Again - hackintosh to the rescue but try to find hackintosh laptop.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by omnimus »

izacus wrote: post #225
andrei_says_ wrote: post #77

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If you do any creative work, Linux is pretty much a desert. Adobe software doesn't run on Linux, capture one doesn't either, so as a photographer I have no choice but windows (cheap hardware and malware os) or OS X (hyper expensive old generation hardware with passable os). Davinci resolve seems to have a Linux version but not enough for someone who does more than video.

> If you do any creative work, Linux is pretty much a desert. Adobe software doesn't run on Linux, capture one doesn't either, so as a photographer I have no choice but windows (cheap hardware and malware os) or OS X (hyper expensive old generation hardware with passable os). Huh? Linux is still one of top platforms for any kind of highend professional video work. Software like Lightworks, CG renderers and designers,…

3D and composing is fine on linux. Some of the highhigh end soft is even linux only (renderfarms are linux).

Its mostly Adobe with their monopoly. The thing is.. i suspect they could target linux atleast experimentaly - since its already multiplatform and on unix. They dont seem to be using much of the OS parts.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by tracker1 »

aceperry wrote: post #196
hysan wrote: post #162

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> Maybe the bar was just really low, and you've got a strong argument if you say it shouldn't be anymore, but we are making progress... I was one of those people for longer than I can remember. Last year I decided that it was time for me to make this argument. I don't regret the time I spent learning, tinkering, and sometimes wrestling Linux into working. However, while Linux has made a ton of progress, the gap betwe…

You and others make a good point about getting going faster on windows, but one thing that a lot of people don't factor in is the amount of time fiddling with windows as well. Getting it working or fixing problems and other configuration probs. And not all hardware works well under windows or the latest version of windows. There is some real time spent trying to configure windows as well. The main problem that the ar…

I have a Windows PC and an Ubuntu system running on the same NUC hardware, as well as a higher end desktop that I use. I have to twiddle with the Ubuntu system pretty much once every 3-4 months after an update breaks something. The Windows 10 box keeps running... My big desktop has upgraded from 7->8->8.1->10, and is still running, though I'm considering a clean install, as some of the cruft from experimenting with the WSL and Docker for Windows Containers has left things a little funky.

In the end, I find I have to spend far more time tinkering with my HTPC box running Ubuntu, then I ever really had to with windows. I know there are other distros, but Ubuntu is pretty much king of desktop linux here. I have considered switching to Debian proper, or an Ubuntu derivative, but haven't done so.

Oh, and don't get my started on the pain of getting an MCE remote working halfway properly under Kodi... that was a real painful experience. I'm just glad that suspend/resume has hdmi audio after now, where it lost it before some recent changes (daily intel driver ppa).

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by tracker1 »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #234
PeterisP wrote: post #231

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Requiring an xrandr invocation equals to having issues. Perhaps it's a small problem, perhaps it's a very easy problem, but it definitely is a problem. Not having issues means that you arrive at the hardware (which you may have never seen, e.g. at a customer's site), plug the wires, and it works immediately. More importantly, not having issues means that you can rely on being able to just plug the wires and have it w…

> plug the wires, and it works immediately How does it work immediately? How does it know of I want to clone or extend the display? If I extend, do I want the same resolution on both screens, or different? You'll have to set that somehow, and whether it's a GUI or a CLI tool doesn't matter. Forgetting the invocations aren't really an issue anymore either, my shell (zsh) has autocompletion of xrandr outputs, modes and…

With OSX/Windows, it tends to mirror by default and/or present a window asking you what you want to do.

Requiring a CLI to connect a monitor/projector is a UX fail.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by tracker1 »

CaptSpify wrote: post #56
KirinDave wrote: post #27

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"Everything just works" so long as your expectations around "everything" are essentially set by a desktop computer experience designed in 2005. Linux on desktops is fine (except from a physical security standpoint), but primitive in terms of UX. And it's still dependent on Mozilla or Google for its browsing experience. And if you want a portable computer (which by the way are demonstrably more secure in the face of p…

Although I agree that the "out of the box" experience is still not great on linux, I would ague that it's much more competitive. Most things do work out of the box. And at the end of the day, I have full control of my machine, and the software is being pushed by a group of people who don't see me as "the product". I can't say that about Windows or Mac.

I'd say the out of the box experience of a full install of Ubuntu vs. Windows for a given set of hardware is definitely better. With windows, you often have to seek out the correct graphics driver, and sometimes network driver (though that's about it for the most part).

That said, keeping said system running, when an update causes a regression for your system seems to happen to me far more on my Ubuntu system than my windows or osx ones.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by tracker1 »

omnimus wrote: post #241
adrienne wrote: post #184

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Anyone whose workflow is InDesign-heavy or Illustrator-heavy is shit out of luck, though; there is no reasonable replacement for either, and especially not for InDesign.

this is so true. If you are photographer then you are ok onn linux. If you want to make books profesionaly there is no replacement for indesign. Scribus doesnt have multiline paragraph composing. So technicaly if you want to set something to the block, you will get always better result in indesign. 3D and photography are interesting to programmers but books... they make them with TeX. But with tex its hard to do colu…

I did a hackintosh on an older thinkpad, but the experience was less than great, and had to use a usb wireless, as I didn't want to replace the wifi at the time. I went to linux shortly after, and that experience was slightly better, until an intel graphics regression made the system unusable, then back to windows.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by leonatan »

ptrincr wrote: post #176
leonatan wrote: post #121

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No to condescend, but that just means that what you do most likely only has to do with programming. If you attempt to branch out into other fields of activities, Linux software is just not capable enough. Try to edit a photo beyond the basic capabilities of Gimp. Try to author a video project. Try to master audio. Try to design and edit documents beyond the most basic capabilities of LibreOffice. Attempt spreadsheet…

I mentioned this is another comment, but it's worth saying again. For video/audio editing Blender can be used. Plus a bunch of other stuff, from their website: "Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation." Now its not the most intuitive piec…

Please let me know how editing goes for you on Blender on a semi advanced video project. These types of comments are the worst. It's on the same level as "Yes, GIMP is an alternative to Photoshop because it has brush and layers".

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by daveguy »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #220
daveguy wrote: post #214

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> Last I saw it breaks features like the Windows Store app. That is a feature, not a bug. I wish I could find something that would break windows trusted installer from using 25% of my CPU all the time on win 7.

There is nothing inherently bad about having a store app. And it's the only way to install some programs. How is its removal a feature?

The windows app store is an infested malware cesspool:

http://www.howtogeek.com/194993/the-windows-store-is-a-cessp...

http://www.itproportal.com/2015/02/23/windows-store-infested...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-was-this-windows-store-app-...

They have gotten better (these links are in chronological order), but best practices for individual users and administrators is to disable the windows app store.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by vocatus_gate »

SquareWheel wrote: post #182
vocatus_gate wrote: post #143

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There's another category. Those of us who were so aggravated by it we ended up starting an entire open source project and now have 12k users. https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript

As I rely on some deeper Windows features (like Storage Spaces), I'd be very wary of running a giant script instead of targeting features I dislike (such as OneDrive sync). Last I saw it breaks features like the Windows Store app.

The whole thing is open source (MIT license) and based largely on community contributions. It did break the Windows Store originally, but that was fixed a long time ago.

If you have any issues with it let me know - we work on it pretty much constantly.

Re: “Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

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Post by KirinDave »

corndoge wrote: post #169
KirinDave wrote: post #27

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"Everything just works" so long as your expectations around "everything" are essentially set by a desktop computer experience designed in 2005. Linux on desktops is fine (except from a physical security standpoint), but primitive in terms of UX. And it's still dependent on Mozilla or Google for its browsing experience. And if you want a portable computer (which by the way are demonstrably more secure in the face of p…

It's not primitive in terms of UX. You just need to spend more time configuring it. Some will argue that that means it's primitive, but I don't think so. The point about portable computers is also false. You just need to pick a machine with hardware manufactured by friendly vendors who help write drivers. Why would you want to support anyone else? Battery life? My x230 with tpm installed gets 6 hours of battery life…

> It's not primitive in terms of UX. You just need to spend more time configuring it. Some will argue that that means it's primitive, but I don't think so.

Okay, so... let's just think about what you said for a second. Windows 10 and Mac OS X deliver extremely high end configuration with a lot of extensibility in their Window managers via first and third parties without extensive modifications. I have some unique XMonad configurations too! But if I have to be a direct contributor to my experience, I remove a lot of the credit from the people who shipped the software, because they basically sent me an SDK for making a good UI environment.

> The point about portable computers is also false. You just need to pick a machine with hardware manufactured by friendly vendors who help write drivers. Why would you want to support anyone else?

Yeah. "Lenovo is friendly" is not a very compelling argument. Their support and sales are miserable. Their machines are unimpressive. Their supported versions of Linux are years out of date.

> Battery life? My x230 with tpm installed gets 6 hours of battery life on the stock battery.

My surface book gets 6 hours of battery life even if I'm compiling android binaries regularly. Without changing anything.

> HandleLidSwitch=suspend

Are you actually going to pretend that sleep support isn't a major issue for many portable hardware setups? Or is this restricted to "only specific token gesture devices from specific vendors?"

> Performance issues? My system idles at 200mb. Good luck getting macOS or Windows to do that.

What does this have to do with performance?

> The terrain has changed and the mainstream Linux distributions are now very stable and usable daily driver systems.

So.. tell me... does Canonical's kernel update purge old kernel images yet, or are regular users still SOL after about 8 months of use unless they invoke a shell script they barely understand provided by stack overflow? Asking for a friend who I had to do this form.

> Linux is more than competitive,

If Linux is only for experienced users but both OSX and Windows can deliver to the full spectrum, then that's a superset, doge.

This kind of double standard is why linux ends up getting overhyped.

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