Creative Cloud. I don't think there's anything with the same feature set and polish on Linux.
Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?
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#22I used desktop Linux for like, a decade. A few years ago I switched to the Mac, and never looked back. The major difference honestly is that now I have real income ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ imo, macOS is the best desktop experience, and has the best software ecosystem hands down, if you can afford it. But for zero cost, Linux served me well for many many years
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#23Mostly buggy desktop environments and broken drivers (especially on laptops).
It's 2021, and it's still a miracle if we can achieve different scaling on different monitors, no tearing on multiple screens, and plug'n'play of an external monitor. Things that work on Windows/macOS out-of-the-box for the last N years.
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#24I'm using Windows 10. In the past year I've tried: Manjaro, Fedora, Linux Mint and some others. Why I'm not switching? Because every time I login there is something that needs a quick update or a quick fix. After I've tried Fedora the last time, I turned on my PC and the resolution of my monitor switched to 800x600 from the 1920x1080. There was no way of setting it back to the correct resolution. "Well, you know, you…
Same experience. I have one Linux box set up because of a project I'm working on that needs access to USB ports and doesn't work well in virtual environments.
It's just used to compile and test some software. But I do run the recommended updates (it's a Ubuntu desktop distro) and about once a week, something breaks. (X Server and monitor support are a frequent one.) This is a very standard Supermicro Mobo with Xeon CPU.
My Windows 10 machine is extremely reliable. I set it up about 2.5 years ago and I've never had to reinstall the OS, or fix display problems, or wonder why audio stopped working, etc.
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#26At work, I use Windows Subsystem for Linux extensively, but I need to run Windows for a proprietary IDE. I'd probably consider switching over if it weren't for that.
At home, I use music programs which only run on Windows. I also game a lot, and while I hear gaming on Linux is better these days, it's just zero friction on Windows.
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#27The trackpad experience on MacBooks is unbeatable. Another comment here on HN described it as the trackpad completely disappearing from your mind. You don't have to fight it at all. You don't even think about it anymore. The cursor just becomes a natural extension of your hand. Also, as a person working with PDF documents on a regular basis, I don't know of any application that can beat the feature set and UX of Prev…
I've been using a Magic Trackpad 2 on my Linux desktop for a year now and it's great. Two finger scroll and right click works, but it also does three finger middle click which is super convenient for opening and closing tabs in Firefox - it's something I miss when I'm on macOS.
Inertial scrolling depends on the app, but Firefox implements it well and that takes care of 80% of it for me.
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#281. Video games.
2. In case something broke in Linux I would spend a lot of time looking how to fix it. I use Windows since 3.1 and I know it inside out.
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#29I go back and forth. Currently I use windows for grad school work. It’s just easier to use Microsoft Office on windows. Oftentimes professors will email me very old doc files that open fine in Word but have incompatibilities or rendering issues in LibreOffice.
Also OneNote is my primary note taking tool. It’s really easy to get going and is able to search across other notes very well. Also free built in OCR scanning is a big plus too.
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#30Ultimately for me it's two things:
- reliably working hardware
- microsoft office
I lead a pretty mobile life so I flip my laptop open and closed probably 20 times a day and do loads of video conferencing in a professional setting. Even a small fraction of the time having it not wake, or Wifi isn't working, or sound and audio isn't right etc etc ... would just be a deal breaker. And every time I see these threads, people are STILL talking about all these things.