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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by y-c-o-m-b »

reactordev wrote: post #478
embedding-shape wrote: post #346

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> While FL Studio and Logic, Cubase and Ableton are what most people know. There’s ways of running ALL of them on Linux. As I just managed to get VR working with HP Reverb G2 in my Linux environment, quite literally the only reason I have Windows still installed on my computer is because of Ableton, and not being able to run that properly on even workstation hardware. How exactly do I get Ableton running with an exte…

https://github.com/BEEFY-JOE/AbletonLiveOnLinux https://hanez.org/document/ableton-live-linux-wine/ https://github.com/wineasio/wineasio The biggest thing with any Linux and Wine mix for DAWs is using JACK and WineASIO for low latency

This doesn't work like everyone makes it out to. The first problem is overcoming the plethora of build errors. Then if you're lucky enough to actually get Ableton launched and working, you'll run into weird issues like Ableton crashing as soon as you attempt to add a MIDI track. When you find a work-around for that, you then run into random crashing in the middle of playback with absolutely atrocious latency despite the claims of "low latency". It's not worth it. I gave up

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by givemeethekeys »

jama211 wrote: post #510
voxleone wrote: post #299

It’s worth acknowledging the real challenges raised in this thread: desktop Linux still has rough edges for some use cases, hardware support isn’t always perfect, and niche professional software may lack native support or require workarounds. But these obstacles are not intrinsic technical limitations so much as ecosystem and investment gaps, areas where community projects, standards efforts, and wider adoption could…

Yeah but folks around here like to stick their heads in the sand when reminded that this is a very real and concerning barrier to adoption of desktop Linux. It could happen 1000 times and they’ll still scream that it’s either user error or even worse “it works on my machine”. Until the Linux community stops pretending and accepts that these are real issues and they need addressing, it will never be the year of the Li…

Maybe not for everyone, but it will never be the year of the Windows Desktop for everyone either.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by jama211 »

Oh look, a “I switched to linux” article that will convince nobody because it’s full of issues they ran into that users don’t want to and should not have to learn how to solve. Or maybe I’m wrong and everything is smooth now? _reads article_ Nope, it’s exactly as I expected.

Ugghhh.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by tacker2000 »

drnick1 wrote: post #437
meetingthrower wrote: post #412

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MS Office is hardly "niche professional software." I hate it, and recognize that I can use the online services, but the reality is that I have to send, receive, and work in this application and I can't easily do it on Linux.

Check out WinApps.

This looks interesting, how is the experience?

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by magicalhippo »

givemeethekeys wrote: post #512
jama211 wrote: post #510

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but folks around here like to stick their heads in the sand when reminded that this is a very real and concerning barrier to adoption of desktop Linux. It could happen 1000 times and they’ll still scream that it’s either user error or even worse “it works on my machine”. Until the Linux community stops pretending and accepts that these are real issues and they need addressing, it will never be the year of the Li…

Maybe not for everyone, but it will never be the year of the Windows Desktop for everyone either.

It was, some 25+ years ago.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by graemep »

cubano wrote: post #137

I just turned 60. My first computer was a 4.77MHz IBM PC with an 8088 processor, two floppy drives, and that magnificent mechanical keyboard IBM shipped in those days. My father, clearly receiving excellent financial advice at the time, picked up a 300bps Hayes modem for the princely sum of $599. CompuServe, here I come! For context, this was early 1982. That 599 would cost 1,900 today — still a lot for a modem, but…

> Six weeks in, things changed. The Linux installations started to degrade — subtle at first, then undeniable. Random slowdowns. Browser links that wouldn't register for 10 or 15 seconds.

This is something that I would expect with Windows over time (not in a few weeks though) but has never happened to me with Linux. I have run less stable rolling release distros, and I have done multiple major version upgrades on the same machine over time over many machines.

its sounds to me as though you are doing some unusual things - few people use Compiz now because DEs like KDE provide those through their default Window managers.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by issjsijdj »

BuddyPickett wrote: post #468
sovietmudkipz wrote: post #301

I’m so close to the switch myself for silly reasons. I don’t like windows due to their creepy business practices and negative design patterns in their OS so I’m very bias against it. Forcing copilot is just the latest in their creepy practices… For more details on why I came close to switching: I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation since it is a beefy platform…

Copilot is already great and it's only getting better. I can get so much more work done and the same amount of time or get the same amount of work done in a lot less time. It's funny how many people were afraid of AI. Technophobes abound in this world

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Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by ludicrousdispla »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #327
osigurdson wrote: post #318

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Do you use a laptop? It seems that doing the right then when opening / closing the lid only happened in the past 5 years or so.

This is something I see repeated everywhere but I've been using Linux daily on all sorts of laptops for a little over 15 years and never struggled with this issue. But during my brief period on Windows I would get issues like my colour settings changing or the behaviour of certain meta keys being switched out when I woke a sleeping laptop.

Certain versions of Ubuntu have this issue on Thinkpads, which requires updating a specific setting in Grub.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by magicalhippo »

graemep wrote: post #440
BuddyPickett wrote: post #434

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No hardware problems in the version I run, not sure what version you use. It's also not frustrating for me but what I do get frustrated with is trying to get software to run and Linux but just won't work. Most people are smart enough to be able to use windows without getting frustrated.

So why are so many people complaining about Windows 11?

As a Windows user since 3.x days, I complain mostly about UX issues these days. It's also clear leadership is not aligned with what I want with my desktop.

I've hardly had hardware issues since I moved to Windows 2000. Sure some, but few enough I can't recall any in particular.

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