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Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?

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Post by spikej »

rcarmo wrote: post #128

For me, it’s the lack of polish and full corporate productivity suite. There are _zero_ effective replacements for a multitude of things I need, although I would be perfectly happy with a fully standard implementation of Remote Desktop (and no, Remmina still lacks the authentication and virtual desktop workspace support I need). Edge and Teams betas are coming close to providing around half of what I need, but not al…

Lack of proper remote desktop and a subpar experience with substitutes is what does it for me. My home network is full of Windows machines, and it's simply easier to be on the same ecosystem.

I have a Linux VM for dev work where Windows won't do (certain Ruby gems for example)

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Post by UziTech »

Drivers. Try buying anything that you have to plug into your Linux machine. It is not easy figuring out if it works on your version of Linux. You can read so many reviews on how great it works for this other version of Linux but when you get it there is still a big chance it will not work, or it worked last year than something changed so you have to downgrade or use this software that hasn't been updated on five years.

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Post by thedevelopnik »

jsjohnst wrote: post #70

I ran Linux as my daily driver OS from 1995 to 2004. I learned a lot along the way, but I was always fixing something, vs you know, actually working. I ran FreeBSD as my daily driver in 2005 and part of 2006. To me, it was more thought out, consistent and documented vs a random mishmash of components like Linux at the time. The problem with both is that a number of apps I needed didn’t run in either and the open sour…

Yeah it’s apps for me. I live my life by my Omnifocus setup. They have a browser-based “companion” that I can and have used occasionally but it’s not the same.

Airmail is the other big one.

There’s just nothing that supports Linux and iOS hah, and I want to keep similar workflows across them.

And I actually ran PopOS as a daily driver for about 6 months during the pandemic, I’ve tried!

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Post by lostmsu »

josephferano wrote: post #284
lostmsu wrote: post #94

Visual Studio is still the best IDE for me (IntelliJ gets close, but debugger is still lacking). Updates in Windows do not break graphics mode. I wrote a custom tiling WM for Windows, and can't find Linux replacement (predefined layouts, tabs, multimonitor support, free-float allowed, also widgets). A few years ago Ubuntu still had problems with multiple displays on Nvidia driver. Recent: me & my friend do deep learn…

What's this custom tiling VM? Do you have it up on GitHub?

It is listed in the profile. I am currently considering making it open source, but not there yet.

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Post by taylodl »

rcarmo wrote: post #135
taylodl wrote: post #100

A DAW (digital audio workstation) I can work with. There are DAWs available for Linux, and one, Reaper, is quite popular and even used in professional studios. Which is great, but it doesn't fit my work flow. If I were a Pro Tools, Ableton, or Cubase user (extremely popular DAWs) I would still be stuck: they only run on Windows or Mac OS. So I'm pretty much stuck on Mac OS (I use Logic Pro). The additional problem I…

Check out Bitwig Studio: https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2021/08/24/1800 I got hold of an 8-track license giveaway and have been having quite some fun with it, as it feels like a better thought out Ableton (I’m a Logic guy, but appreciate trying out new things).

Finally got to try Bitwig. I like how it approaches things and it seems to be extremely powerful but it was one fatal flaw: it has severe lag when recording tracking guitar, which is my primary use case. It's bad enough I can't use it. At first I thought maybe it was my rig - so I tried with Logic just to be sure everything was all right and it tracked perfectly. Bitwig seems geared more for midi/keyboards. Since my interest has been piqued I want to play around with that this week. Thanks!
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