The death of the desktop app is troublesome, but one place it has been a win for users is daily driving Linux. The days of being forced to use windows because you need MS Word ended a long time ago for most people. The desktop is irrelevant and nearly everything an office worker does is in Chrome/Firefox. There are exceptions, sure, but they are fewer than ever.
I keep saying this under a bunch of Linux-adjacent posts, but I switched to EndeavourOS late last year and have been enjoying it ever since.
I do 99% of my computing needs on it, with the last 1% being a second Windows SSD I only boot into to play games that require heavy anticheat (Apex Legends, Battlefield 6, Rainbow Six Siege).
Otherwise, I've been doing everything else in Linux, including all the rest of my gaming (Baldur's Gate 3, Helldivers 2, No Rest For The Wicked, Slay The Spire 2, Stardew Valley, pretty much anything that's not AAA FPS multiplayer that I've wanted to play so far, even modding games like Lethal Company using r2modman).
It's been great - I told my coworker I only realized how annoying the Windows auto-update and forced reboots were after I got used to my Linux PC always being in the state I left it.
This is exactly me. Been switched for 6 months. Loving it. I find I'm enjoying my computer so much more now that I feel it belongs to me rather than being an advertising surface for MS and their partners
I made the switch about 1.5 years ago and haven't looked back. The only software I use frequently that doesn't have a good enough equivialent available on Linux is photo editing and CAD. Even for CAD, if it is simple enough, I'll do it in Onshape rather than booting up my Windows VM.
By photo editing, do you mean a RAW editor alternative to Lightroom? Darktable, RAWTherapee, DaVinci Resolve, AfterShot Pro, and the unhelpfully named "Art" [1] are all options for that. For something to replace Photoshop, Affinity can be made to run in Wine, and their CEO is open to the idea of a native port.
I'm learning a bit of CAD currently (mostly for 3d printing) and I've been using onshape. It seems pretty powerful so far and I've not found anything I can't do with it. Can you elaborate a bit on what I'm missing from more advanced desktop CAD applications?
The death of the desktop app is troublesome, but one place it has been a win for users is daily driving Linux. The days of being forced to use windows because you need MS Word ended a long time ago for most people. The desktop is irrelevant and nearly everything an office worker does is in Chrome/Firefox. There are exceptions, sure, but they are fewer than ever.
I keep saying this under a bunch of Linux-adjacent posts, but I switched to EndeavourOS late last year and have been enjoying it ever since.
I do 99% of my computing needs on it, with the last 1% being a second Windows SSD I only boot into to play games that require heavy anticheat (Apex Legends, Battlefield 6, Rainbow Six Siege).
Otherwise, I've been doing everything else in Linux, including all the rest of my gaming (Baldur's Gate 3, Helldivers 2, No Rest For The Wicked, Slay The Spire 2, Stardew Valley, pretty much anything that's not AAA FPS multiplayer that I've wanted to play so far, even modding games like Lethal Company using r2modman).
It's been great - I told my coworker I only realized how annoying the Windows auto-update and forced reboots were after I got used to my Linux PC always being in the state I left it.
This is exactly me. Been switched for 6 months. Loving it. I find I'm enjoying my computer so much more now that I feel it belongs to me rather than being an advertising surface for MS and their partners
I made the switch about 1.5 years ago and haven't looked back. The only software I use frequently that doesn't have a good enough equivialent available on Linux is photo editing and CAD. Even for CAD, if it is simple enough, I'll do it in Onshape rather than booting up my Windows VM.
By photo editing, do you mean a RAW editor alternative to Lightroom? Darktable, RAWTherapee, DaVinci Resolve, AfterShot Pro, and the unhelpfully named "Art" [1] are all options for that. For something to replace Photoshop, Affinity can be made to run in Wine, and their CEO is open to the idea of a native port.
[1] https://artraweditor.github.io/
I'm learning a bit of CAD currently (mostly for 3d printing) and I've been using onshape. It seems pretty powerful so far and I've not found anything I can't do with it. Can you elaborate a bit on what I'm missing from more advanced desktop CAD applications?
Have you tried Photopea yet? It's practically a clone of Photoshop, even has content-aware fill and magic erase.
I’ve had the same experience using CachyOS. This is the way computing should be, not whatever windows had us doing all this time.
Dupe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911307