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If I could find something like AltSnap on Linux I would move like, this week.
I know some of the features may already be part of Linux but I use this program pretty extensively and I don't know much about Linux desktops and how they control.
But anyway I'm gonna move to Linux anyway, I have a date in my calendar later this year and my friend is gonna help me switch to it.
For me it’s because I have an iPhone and Windows has at least some compatibility with it, mainly for syncing my local music collection to my phone so I can listen with Apple Music offline. While it can be a pain, at least it works. If I were to use Linux I would need a way to transfer files between Linux and iPhone so I can listen to my music on a third party iPhone music player app, which I also haven’t found a good solution for yet. If anyone has any suggestions I’m all ears!
I have an Alienware laptop, and I’m guessing all the proprietary bells & whistles won’t run on Linux. Which is mostly fine - I don’t need all the dumb glowy nonsense. But I don’t know whether the computer will work without its special Alienware drivers and whatnot. The battery & GPU management systems in particular barely even work on the OS they’re meant for; I’m not optimistic they’d work at all on anything else. It seems like there’s a high likelihood that testing out Linux would be a disappointing time sink. So I guess, the answer why I haven’t switched is a combo of pessimism + laziness?
However, if anyone happens to know of a distro that works on an Alienware 17 R5 (AMD), please let me know! I’d love to switch.
I still have a machine that runs Windows 10 LTSC. Used to need it to run Adobe softwares, but I get past that now.
Now I need it to run my heavily modded Bethesda games. I can't get my GOG versions to run through MO2 or NMM even with the help of Steam. I feel really stupid. Heroic Launcher somehow can't run some Proton supported games on my end, too. My small collection on Steam seems fine, but most of my games are on GOG, I can't figure out why sometimes Heroic won't work.
The handful of perennial AAA game franchises I still play getting to platinum on Proton. I already switched to Mac for work years ago, so Windows is solely a gaming platform for me these days.
Lazyness.
I'd try it on a new system but I really don't want to live migrate my whole system.
My copy of win10 to stop working, probably. Not planning on switching to win11, so Linux it will be.
I get that there are different Distros and that having options is great, but it's a double edged sword. It also means that things get more complicated and some get more support than others.
If I commit to Linux then my whole house will switch to that Distro because I don't have time to figure and support >4 PCs with similar but different OSs.
Autocad - for work
Photoshop - for work
Getting more software companies to support.
Make the terminal easier to use. I don't use it often but when I do I waste an average of 15min just trying to find a guide or wiki. A help file or built in guide would be nice
Everyone that uses Linux, expects you to be a Linux expert
Steam is great but a native GOG app would be nice. Instead of Herolauncher
Anti cheat support from games
Hardware support. Just finding drivers for peripherals is sometimes more trouble than it's worth
Generally make it more inviting to new users
More support for WINE and Proton
many games and apps dont work well even with lutris & wine :(
I switched my laptop to Arch a bit over a year ago but my desktop is still on Windows 11.
The main thing that's holding me back is the lack of raw photo editing software that matches my workflow. I've tried RawTherapee, Darktable, RapidRAW and a couple of others. So far, everything was either cumbersome to use, was missing important features or had suboptimal performance. With dozens if not hundreds of candidates, even one more minute of editing time per photo can quickly add up. Many of my gigs are event photography and my clients often want at least the roughly edited previews within 24-48 hours.
If any of you knows a tool that accurately replicates the UX, feature set and performance of (ideally) Adobe Camera Raw or (not so ideally) Lightroom, you'd make me the happiest photography nerd on the planet. Bonus points if it correctly imports existing development settings in case I need to re-edit or re-export older photos.
PSA: if you recommend I use GIMP, like so many before you did, I will block you. GIMP is not a raw editor and it can't even open most raw formats without help from one of the tools I mentioned above.
I am curious about how Lightroom workflow is better that Darkable for you. I juste started to learn RAW photo editing with darktable and want to learn more about photography in general
It's probably mostly a matter of getting used to the way Darktable does things and where it puts certain controls.
That's what Camera Raw's basic tab looks like (not my screenshot, I'm at the linux laptop right now). It has most of what I need for a photo to look "okay" before I dive into the other tabs for more in-depth edits. I'm sure Darktable has equivalent functions to all of those (they're very basic after all) but at least with the default UI presets, I need to look through many different tabs and modules with unfamiliar names to find them.
Then there's warnings like "White balance applied twice". Apparently I'm not allowed to use the white balance sliders because the color calibration module already applies white balance? But that module doesn't provide an intuitive way to select color temperature and tint?
I'm sure I could get used to all of that. But right now I don't have the time or energy to learn a completely new editing workflow from scratch. Many open source tools suffer from programmer UI syndrome (I'm allowed to say that, I'm a programmer myself). They do everything the lead maintainer needs them to do but you often need to be intimately familiar with the software's inner workings to understand what each control in the UI does. I don't want to think about the differences between "linear Bradford (ICC v4)", "non-linear Bradford" and "CAT16 (CIECAM16)" color calibration formulas, especially not when I've set my UI to "workflow: beginner". I just want to make my photo a tiny bit warmer. Give me sensible defaults and put the super detailed settings out of the way until I need them.
A mass migration of business class software to Linux and a majority of businesses switching.
Basically the only time I have to use Windows is for work, and good luck getting the Kafkaesque nightmare of corporate bureaucracy to ever make a change for any reason, let alone something as complex as this
Having the time to dick around and get a linux distro up to my current speed with windows. Or someone else making a distro that mirrors windows 10 capabilities, and utilities (even mundane things like control panel and it's branches to other settings) and verbose explanations of functionality in the onboard help docs or subtext of options. Or an onboard llm asshole like clippy that can be conversed with om how to accomplish something the linux way.
I think what the linux community misses or forgets is that windows became popular partly because it held people's hands so much. If linux users want to see the year of linux come to fruition they need to make the distros walk people through a task instead of pointing at the wall and saying "up".
Conversely I think the linux world says they want everyone to use it but I wonder if they actually want that: everyone using linux means the computing and advertising world pivots and makes linux equivalents of everything, including all the gate keeping, scummy business, malware/adware/tracking...
It needs to actually work.
No display issues with Nvidia. Working HDR out of the box. The OS and games most pick up the correct resolution both on desktop and running in proton. I need to be able to turn my monitor off and on without having to remove and insert the HDMI.
Same with audio. I need it to correctly detect my HDMI pass through and not need a script to run on boot to pull and grep a changing device id on every fucking update.
Finally I need Bluetooth to not be a total piece of shit and correctly support a controller without latency.
Now, where is the nerd to come screech at me, tell me my issues were fixed a decade ago and that Linux just works perfectly on random hardware and that Linux is so easy an idiot could do it? All the while I spend 40 hours a week on the cli and ide.
Even steam deck has a bunch of issues that nerds will hand wave away.
Hoestly same.
If linux meets your needs, cool. I'm even a little jealous, but please, linux guys, understand that not everyone has the same needs as you.
I need my personal computer to get out of the way and let me do other stuff, not be a project in itself. If you're a developer, desktop Linux is pretty good at that. Lots of nice compilers and versioning systems and IDEs and runtime environments to play around with. If you're literally anyone else it just doesn't cut it.
I have been trying to use Linux since 2009. I keep trying, but it never gets any better for my needs. In fact it has gotten worse.
Sounds like most of your problem is NVIDIA. I don't have any of that on AMD. But if that's what you have that's what you have. I'm not blaming you. Unfortunately NVIDIA (the company) is just not as good about making their stuff work with Linux.
Bluetooth works great for me. At least since I switched from a shitty old Broadcom wireless card to a modern Intel wireless one.
I'm a whole lot less computer literate than I was when I attempted it in my 20s, I also really only play some games nowadays and binge watch stupid on YouTube... the computer has become less of my life in my 40s so learning a new system sounds like... work.
Look, to be perfectly honest, I've had to do far less "computery" bullshit on Linux. After about six months of everything just working fast and flawless, I realised Windows is the OS that requires a pretty high level of computer literacy. Even installing Linux is a simple and quick breeze compared to Windows.
All it took was a final, "Oh, for fuck's sake! That's it! I'm fucking done!" moment. I just didn't want to do it anymore. Never had one since. Using a computer is a nice thing again.
I 100% recommend Linux for grandparents!
This is exactly my experience too, after 6months things just worked. Only Pop_OS's new major update broke that a little bit, but is now for the most part back to just working like they used to or has been improved.
Windows that I have on a laptop keeps being annoying with its sudden updates that slows down everything, and not taking no for an answer when I press not fucking now or ever.
It's fast and easy and no big deal until you want to do something radical like create a shortcut and pin it to your taskbar, or share a folder on a home network. Or share your screen with a TV... there have been too many damn times where I've wanted to do something that should be simple and the matter of a couple clicks but it sends me down a rabbit hole chasing dependencies and searching terminal commands and spending hours doing something that takes less than a minute on mainstream operating systems. My user experience has drastically improved since I swapped to Plasma but don't pretend everything works perfectly and intuitively immediately for everyone unless the expected use case is literally turning it on and opening a browser.
I've been considering it for a while, mostly out of fear of the unknown. My worst case is something like I put Linux on, it breaks or messes up, I have no internet access and USB doesn't work. So I can't make a new Win10 ISO and I'm stuck shuttling back and forth between a working PC and mine, having to chase down issues and little details to get it working again. Is it a founded fear? Probably not, but it's just the details of it. Like I just got some decent OLED monitors, and there seems to be some issues with HDR support in some distros, namely the one I was thinking of using. I have an Azeron controller I use because of some hand issues, and I worry that won't work (although I'm almost certain it's fine). I do sim racing stuff, and I want to be sure all the peripherals work as intended without spending 6 hours chasing drivers and force feedback settings. Some pedals I want to get seem to have the same issue on Linux. It's just little things like that, where I have a thing working how I want it right now, and a swap to Linux makes it work, but missing something because it's poorly supported or limited in some way.
I'm probably going to do it and just dual boot; but even then, I have some games that rely on mods (skins and tracks, etc). Do I need to re-download everything into a new partition? Or can Linux natively just use the pre-existing folder without issue? And it's a niche game, so unless I find one of the dozen people who have migrated to Linux on that game, I'm in the dark.
Actually just got started on the setup of upgrading an old chromebook to the lightweight mint iso. Mostly just need the free time to get everything going.
Funnily enough, what really got me in the mindset to go for it was that hoax Windows 12 announcement because even after realizing it was fake, it sounded way too plausible. That and some encouragement from friends who took the plunge recently.
I would need games to be supported, as well as engineering programs I need like solidworks, ansys, etc
