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Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago#109,543
Not only did it decide to shut down and update itself while I was rendering some videos overnight, costing me several hours of time, the update borked my wifi adapter and now it stays online for maybe five minutes at a time before I have to unplug it and plug it back in. Cock suckered. Fuck Windows and fuck Microsoft, those dirty cunts.
If you run software from Microsoft, Google, or Apple, you don't own your computer, phone, or hardware. They do. Or at least that's what they want you to believe. Also, sleep tight knowing your every keystroke and mouse click is sold to the highest bidder. God help you if you have a microphone attached or embedded in any of your machines.
You should check out Linux. Maybe try ubuntu. It's much better than it was 10 to 15 years ago in terms of hardware support and not needing to fuck around with a bunch of settings just to get it operable. Unless you're a gaymer, you can pretty much do everything you can do on Windows. Including video editing.
It's not so much that linux has gotten that much better over the years, it's mainly that everything has gotten so much worse.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 12 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,223,439
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I've wanted Linux as my daily driver for years now but gayming and Adobe software has kept me on Windows. But hearing all the good things about Proton on the Steam Deck makes me think that maybe I wouldn't have to sacrifice those things if I switched completely to Linux...
Anonymous C replied with this 3 years ago, 32 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,223,445
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What adobe software are you using? Adobe's such a horrible company. Are they making everyone rent programs now? I thought I read about them pushing software as a service bullshit a long time ago, so I can't imagine what they're up to now.
I use krita for raster image editing, kolourpaint for simple image editing (think MS paint), and inkscape for editing vector data (svg, postscript, pdf, type stuff)
kdenlive for video editing.
blender for 3d modeling.
That covers it for me, although I wouldn't say I do anything too advanced in any of those. But then again, there's tons of alternatives to what I mentioned if there's some critical feature missing from any of the above. I just settled on those; they're more than enough for what I do.
Even if they didn't cover what I need, I'd personally just use a VM and emulate whatever's needed to fill in the gaps with editing software rather than run any of that shit natively.
I should say though, if you have a weird hardware setup (like limited RAM), you've got to be prepared for some or all the software I mentioned above to crash. It sucks but I've just developed the habit of pressing ctrl + s all the time and I've been fine. When I'm on beefier machines, I rarely have problems. If you switch to linux and are on a machine with limited RAM I have some tips for making the experience a bit better if you care.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 26 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,223,454
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Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, and Premiere. Subscription is the only way to get them now but I pirate it all anyway so that doesn't affect me. I've tried alternatives like gimp in the past and while it seems very capable, I've been using photoshop for over 15 years now and I'm so used to its workflow that it's frustrating trying to learn something else. When I pick up gimp I feel the same way I did as a teenager when I first played with ps. Lost and spending far too much time trying to do basic tasks. And I spend the whole time thinking "if I just did this in ps I'd have been done a long time ago."
But if wine or proton or whatever could feasibly allow me to run adobe shit on Linux, I wouldn't have to worry about any of that.
Anonymous C replied with this 3 years ago, 16 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,223,463
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Yeah lol, I specifically didn't mention gimp because I had a similar experience. I think their interface is objectively bad and I don't think it's because I also previously knew photoshop.
krita is a lot more user friendly, but again it may not fit your use case depending on what you do.
I wouldn't count on wine to run photoshop. It's been a very long time since I used wine, so it may be a lot better now, but when I used it a lot of stuff beyond the most basic programs didn't work with it.
It might save you time to just use a virtual machine like qemu and emulate the whole thing. qemu uses kvm, which virtualizes and technically isn't "emulating" every instruction so the performance is not noticeably different than running it natively in my experience (the exception being gaming).