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teawrecks , in why did you switch?

I think the straw that broke the camel’s back for me was when I learned msvc compiles telemetry calls into every binary.

It took a few years after that incident for the linux gaming ecosystem to mature to a point that I could switch over entirely, but I’m there now. EVERY time I use windows now, I groan at something it tries to do without me asking. It’s so nice knowing that my PC will only do what I ask it to now, and that I won’t get pushed into yet another garbage UI overhaul I didn’t ask for.

Whisper06 , in why did you switch?

I’ve been using Linux since I was 14 like over a decade ago. I was forced to by my moms crazy boyfriend and when I had the chance I immediately installed windows. Long story short I absolutely hated it and switch back to Linux within 6 months, haven’t looked back since.

luthis , in why did you switch?

Windows: This pc belongs to Microsoft and you will use it how we say you can use it.

Linux: Your wish is my command.

exu , in Linux taught me self-confidence

I know what I’m doing!
No, I won’t answer any questions.

NekoKamiGuru , in looks like 2023 is finally the year!
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if they keep it up at this rate Linux will be the only OS people use by the year 3090 (16.66 years per percentage point)

seasick , in Solidworks and other industry-class CAD software on linux

Using Fusion360 in a Virtualbox, works okish for the few things I’m doing. There are several projects on GitHub for running it with Wine, but wasn’t able to get them working on my machine. Maybe not industry Standard, but I’m also using OpenSCAD from time to time for smaller things (especially when I want to publish them).

astropenguin5 OP ,

Im pretty sure Inventor is the other main industry cad software, and considering they are both Autodesk it may also work ok.

I’ve used OpenScad a little, definitely agree it’s only good for small things.

subutai , in Anyone else starting to favor Flatpak over native packages?

For convenience, it’s great. The sandboxing is good as well. Flatseal is a must have for me, though.

elmicha , in Nomenclature: CPU Core/Threads vs Kernel Threads - how do you avoid ambiguity?

Reading about Kernel processes and executing threads makes very little sense compared to a hardware core with two threads.

For me it’s the opposite: a hardware core “having two threads” still sounds a bit strange. It can run two threads at the same time. Maybe Intel should have invented a better name for the thread-runner-thingie.

kissmedanascully , in Solidworks and other industry-class CAD software on linux

ares commander. It’s cross platform and relatively inexpensive. They ship .rpm .deb and tarballs.

slimsalm ,

First time hearing of that, how does it compare with autocad?

kissmedanascully ,

For me it’s been a drop in replacement, it feels very similar. I don’t use all the features. It has LISP scripting support and a lot of the recent updates have been dealing w/ BIM. I do a lot of 2d drafting with the occasional 3d drawing to have something machined or printed.

blacpythoz , in What's your opinion about Manjaro?

I don’t know. I don’t feel right if not arch like something missing

atomkarinca , in Considering switching over to Linux. My main concerns are with Music Production (Native Instruments, Bitwig, Arturia etc.)

I might sound like an old fart but here’s my 2 cents.

I was exactly in the same situation in 2005. I was heavily invested in commercial products but I wanted to switch to an all open source workflow. My advice would be to start small. First dual boot with windows. Get your DAW working at a basic level. Then get your hardware setup the way you are fully comfortable. Then try to get your visual instruments to work.

Keep in mind that it will be a somewhat different workflow. Linux is highly modular. You can definitely achieve the same results but sometimes with more tools. Jack is an amazing sound system which is now seamlessly integrated into the system with Pipewire. It makes routing your audio stupidly simple and opens up a whole different universe of possibilities.

All this is coming from someone that’s using an all open source approach for almost 20 years now.

And if it does’t work, it doesn’t. No need to swim against the current.

ryannathans , in Anyone else starting to favor Flatpak over native packages?

Yeah, having apps updated in the last year in enjoyable

DidacticDumbass OP ,

Hahaha! I think developers seem to prefer it? My uses cases are 3D modelling and game engines like Blender, Cura, and Godot.

All those need to be the latest because often the updates are tremendous (as in great or awesome), making the software so much more functional and better to use.

ryannathans ,

Yeah, it also lets us ship working environments. At !2009scape we have been shipping our flatpak with an old environment because there was a regression in recent mesa versions that caused graphical issues on amd. We could simply deploy an update to resolve the issue for everyone instead of making everyone downgrade their system mesa…

DidacticDumbass OP ,

That is a cool use case! I am learning so much about the benefits of Flatpak, not just an easy way to get software.

garam , in why did you switch?
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I need tools that powerful and less memory hungry on old device, especially thinkpad, WSL2 with Windows kills the HW, so in the end I ends up using fedora… because it’s near EL standard (I work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux), and it’s useful to be near the workflow I need.

Linux KVM with Windows better than WSL2 on Windows… so… I use Linux in the end… and never looks back…

blacpythoz , in What distro(s) do you use?

Arch

fourstepper , in Linux taught me self-confidence

reminding me about I nearly got suspended because I showed my Health teacher how you could bypass our school’s firewall and buy drugs on a school computer

It’s such a rejected behavior to even consider suspending you for this.

Anyway, yeah, I agree. I think if one has interest in the inner workings of a computer system, just trying to make Linux do whatever you want it to do is a good way to experience that. You will, over time, without knowing, accumulate so much information just by troubleshooting things that don’t work for one reason or another

Puffymumpkins OP ,

It’s such a rejected behavior to even consider suspending you for this.

They did take the smooth-brain interpretation of “He figured this out because he was buying drugs on the school computer” instead of considering that if that was my motivation, I would no longer be able to buy drugs on the school computer after telling them

It was a very enlightening experience for me LOL

med ,

Assuming that suspension hasn’t inconvenienced you, I would say that was a valubale lesson. Authority cannot be trusted.

Puffymumpkins OP ,

I didn’t get a suspension because my parents and social worker went to bat for me. But still

fourstepper ,

I would commend any student that would be able to figure this out in my hypothetical school

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