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At least you’re stuck on a Mac. I do motion design and I’m stuck on windows because of stupid Apple vs nvidia beef and apple only allowing you to have a good gpu if you pay for Mac Pro with Xeon you don’t need and expensive memory you don’t need.
Right. I do mechanical engineering and the whole field is stuck on Windows.
Ugh. I'd love to switch to Linux, but as a designer, I'm stuck. It's not a lack of understanding of how it works— Before I was a designer I was a developer, worked in IT for a while, worked in upper-level support for a while, and Linux was my primary personal and professional OS from the late 90s to like 2010. Why don't I just run a closed-source OS in a VM? They are fussy. Having some weird graphics tablet driver pr…
I'm assuming your use case doesn't require that much compute power so maybe you could use an old Mac just for work stuff and a Linux machine for everything else?
Ugh. I'd love to switch to Linux, but as a designer, I'm stuck. It's not a lack of understanding of how it works— Before I was a designer I was a developer, worked in IT for a while, worked in upper-level support for a while, and Linux was my primary personal and professional OS from the late 90s to like 2010. Why don't I just run a closed-source OS in a VM? They are fussy. Having some weird graphics tablet driver pr…
> and that's just not an option for a pro. get 2 machines then. Who says you need to have a single machine for everything? Get a Mac for your design work, treat it like an appliance, and use Linux for everything else on another machine. Problem solved.
Ugh. I'd love to switch to Linux, but as a designer, I'm stuck. It's not a lack of understanding of how it works— Before I was a designer I was a developer, worked in IT for a while, worked in upper-level support for a while, and Linux was my primary personal and professional OS from the late 90s to like 2010. Why don't I just run a closed-source OS in a VM? They are fussy. Having some weird graphics tablet driver pr…
Ugh. I'd love to switch to Linux, but as a designer, I'm stuck. It's not a lack of understanding of how it works— Before I was a designer I was a developer, worked in IT for a while, worked in upper-level support for a while, and Linux was my primary personal and professional OS from the late 90s to like 2010. Why don't I just run a closed-source OS in a VM? They are fussy. Having some weird graphics tablet driver pr…
Some things changed for the good the last couple of years. I am programming on Ubuntu (C#, PHP, Javascript) with Jetbrains software. This works absolutely great. For 3D work I use Blender. But for graphical work I agree that there are still alternatives missing. Figma is a very good alternative for Sketch. Scribus is a good alternative for Indesign. Krita is very good for concept art. But that's about it. Inscape is…
"You can’t have a back door in the software because you can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys." — Tim Cook
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Some things changed for the good the last couple of years. I am programming on Ubuntu (C#, PHP, Javascript) with Jetbrains software. This works absolutely great. For 3D work I use Blender. But for graphical work I agree that there are still alternatives missing. Figma is a very good alternative for Sketch. Scribus is a good alternative for Indesign. Krita is very good for concept art. But that's about it. Inscape is…
Have you tried Photopea as a replacement for photoshop? It’s truly amazing. https://www.photopea.com/
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Some things changed for the good the last couple of years. I am programming on Ubuntu (C#, PHP, Javascript) with Jetbrains software. This works absolutely great. For 3D work I use Blender. But for graphical work I agree that there are still alternatives missing. Figma is a very good alternative for Sketch. Scribus is a good alternative for Indesign. Krita is very good for concept art. But that's about it. Inscape is…
I have tried in 2008 with Ubuntu Studio, after spilling coffee on my Powerbook G4, to work in Linux as a UI designer full time and people don't realised the power of Inkscape at the time. 2017 I have used only Ubuntu LTS with Gnome and Affinity Designer in Win VM, full year. This time around I think that is possible, and economically solid, the move from Apple to ARM and closed walls of App Store to create conditions…