The Affinity suite, Designer, Photo, and Publisher. I have used Inkscape, Gimp, and Scribus, but Affinity is very intuitive, easy to work with, professional, inexpensive one-time payment (per major version), very well integrated between apps, and follows the same paradigms. I’ve never been a fan of Adobe.
Running Affinity in Wine is a hack, and a lot less responsive in a VM.
I’m not saying it can’t be an alternative for a lot of people.
I’m just stating my personal position, for my use case.
I’m a Linux user since it was distributed in diskette images.
I use both Windows and Linux, mainly Linux, but I dual boot or use a VM sometimes because I need to use some programs which are not practical or just don’t work with wine.
I don’t see Linux as an alternative, I see Linux as different tool.
I mainly use cruciform (pozidrive if possible) screws and screwdrivers, but sometimes I have use flat.
No drama, no religious zealotery.
Sony has generally made awesome stuff. The number of groundbreaking concepts or tech is incredible, although they have been outputting less “wow stuff” lately. I get the impression that their marketing sucks balls lately.
I run sites for a major NGO for addiction recovery. We often ask people how they found us. More than half now say AI. We don’t have ads in our sites, but for people monetizing their sites this must be dramatic.
Also, Google must be bleeding ads revenue,
Because I may like it better? No harm in trying something different. I always have Mint to fall back to. You could call it slow cycle distro hopping :)
Wine is still kind of a thing, as in it’s what is underneath Proton, the base.
I’ve used mint for ages. Most flavors, and tried most DEs. I use Mint in my laptop currently.
It’s like jeans. You can wear them for ages, for most every situations, but at some point you may decide to give chinos a try. Also comfortable, versatile, but different.
it genuinely seems like this guy hates developing duckstation at all.
I don’t think you get it. He probably enjoys creating, and achieving something awesome. He has no obligation to deal with entitled users of what he gives away
If I give something for free, it’s my rules. Simple as that. Don’t like it? don’t accept it.
Linus is often a dick. He even acknowledges it. Don’t like it? Well, there are other OS.
I’m not like that, I like being helpful, I actually do many volunteer hours a week, but… I do hate entitlement. I don’t see these people giving Microsoft as hard a time.
Lets keep the Karen constrained, please.
From what I see, Snapper is similar, at least in concept, to Timeshift in Mint, which has saved my ass a couple times.
I was just thinking this. I imagine that there is only a few hundred train operators in the world, so they can all be reached easily, and would pay attention to the Polish rail operator.
Simply explain the whole ordeal and bullshittery, and let them know what will happen to them.
It’s unlikely that Newag would get another sale. They are fucking with mainly state operator, who have a LOT of time and resources.
If I were the Polish operator, I would have found a new hobby.
Sure, but I imagine that the volume thing still applies. I’m guessing here.
No, my friend. Gold is an incredibly useful material, often not used because of price, unlike diamonds, which are mostly useful for abrasion/cutting.
I used to recommend Mint with Timeshift. Timeshift has saved my ass (or has made fixing stuff way easier) a couple of times. Now my go to is Aurora.
I believe that immutable distros are a game changer (god I hate this expression) for nebws.
I looked into the wine installation in Linux, and it seems that there is a custom wine setup that generally works, but I do professional graphic design, and page setting/layout as a side gig. I don’t need the hassle, or risking losing work, even with auto saves.
I started a thread about Affinity in Linux in 2022. It’s still quite lively.
The main idea was that considering the growth of Linux, they could get ahead of Adobe in that space and tap into a market space that is pretty in crowded.
It’s still a fairly active thread.
Affinity still says that they have no intention of doing a Linux port.