I emotionally understand this idealistic view. But you canāt exclude yourself from the economy and exclude yourself from professional collaboration of any kind by switching from Photoshop to GIMP.
Sounds like youāve gotten good answers about your formatting question. For the steam proton question, the answer is that yes, steam installs it automatically. You might have to mess with the proton version for specific games, so check www.protondb.com for your game if it doesnāt work immediately.
Congrats on trying out Linux! I hope you enjoy it! Iāve never used Mint myself (I donāt like ubuntu-type package management), nor the Cinnamon desktop (although Iāve heard good things), but thatās part of the beauty of linux, thereās so much to try! Mint is definitely a good starter distro, but if you find you enjoy messing around with it, you might consider a bit of distro-hopping.
Proprietary software I use on a regular basis with no Linux alternative:
Revit, AutoCAD, Houdini, 3dsMAX, SolidWorks, Rhino, Grasshopper, Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign (and/or their Affinity alternatives), CUDA optimized simulation and rendering plugins, etc.
I use at least one of these every day, almost none of them have any functioning compatibility with Wine or other emulation. Even just using Affinity has caused some issues with team projects when someone picks up where I left off and thereās no layer information and a ton of clipping groups instead.
If all you do with your computer is program, work with documents, use a web browser, and play video games sure go wild donāt use Windows on any of your machines. But I just donāt understand how some people in the FOSS community cannot fathom that there are entire professional workflows and industries that just have zero possibility of moving to Linux.
Do I like using Windows? No. But I do like being able to use all the programs my work and research requires.
I contribute actual, tangible research into FOSS CAD/CAM/BIM software development and implementation. I love it and want to see FOSS options grow and become widely adopted. But it just isnāt anywhere close to having feature parity. And that matters, just as much as industry interoperability matters.
Iām just so tired of this thought process in the community that the only reason someone isnāt using Linux/FOSS is because theyāre some fanboy or something
Itās a chicken-egg problem. People stay away from Linux because Linux canāt run (or at least very flawed) industry standard programs like Adobes catalogue and those proprietary software publishers wont publish for Linux because there arenāt enough Linux users to be worth the ātroubleā.
But thatās just a part of the problem, the true offender, are the goalpost-movers. āLinux cant run A, thatās why I NEED to stay on windows. What? A now runs flawlessly? Well thereās also B which is really important!ā No matter how many programs get ported or at least near flawlessly emulated, there will always be one more program our jack-of-all-trades absolutely canāt live without.
My personal laptop is whatever the first gen Framework is called. After many, many years doing the ācoolā distros, Iāve settled on Mint and donāt really have any motivation to do anything elseā¦ I have real work I need to do and canāt be bothered to deal with figuring out weird shit. I just need it to work.
TBH, the only things I use my laptop for anymore is a browser, vim, git, and kubernetes toolingā¦ I barely have any interest in running Linux on a workstation at this point. The only things that really interest me anymore are being run in distributed clusters. Desktop Linux is kinda boring and tedious for me.
If your winamp is still functional, Iād just suggest you convert all mp3pro to wav using the disc writer plugin and then use ffmpeg to convert to mp4 or normal mp3.
Then you wonāt need to worry about the mp3pro codec issues.
At some point youāll have to use a new codec, even if itās in 10 years. So it might be a good idea to download the music instead of converting.
Soulseek with Nicotine+ seems to be a good way to download music. Or streamrip/deemix with a (temporary) Deezer/Tidal subscription supports high quality audio.
More time than trying to shoehorn a defunct package for an abandoned codec in to a random player which even if it works would only be a temporary kludge not a fix?
That particular conversion is lossless but the original MP3 Pro file is lossy and converting to MP3 again would be double lossy. Best solution is to rerip or download a good copy.
wav takes too much space, the collection will grown 5, 6 times the sizeā¦ I just donāt have that much online storage at my disposal, my NAS is 4 x 2TB drives in RAID5, I have about 6TB at my disposal for everything (personal stuff as well as media).
If it doesnāt work out or you find yourself tight on space in the future you can always recompress to mp3 or ogg and take the quality hit at that point.
Well itās Black Friday and HDDs are going for cheap. 6TB is nothing these days, when you could get a 16TB external drive for only $200, or a internal SATA one for $185. Or you could replace/supplement your entire NAS with a single 6TB drive for only $50.
Disk space is cheap now, so upgrade your storage, convert your music to FLAC, problem solved.
Ummmā¦ I donāt live in the US and $50 is A LOT for me. My monthly salary is about $500. All of these 2TB drives are used and dicomissioned (replaced for larger one, theyāre from work). I just donāt have the funds to replace them. The NAS is DIY as well.
And drives are not that cheap around here. They are, but not as cheap as in the US. SSDs are about the same price thoughā¦ but our salaries are not.
Well you donāt have to buy them brand new. If you guys have a used goods market there, you could look around for some good deals on used drives there. Or even used PCs, sometime people sell entire PCs for the same cost as a hard drive, so look out for those and take the drives out, sell the rest of parts.
And if things are really desperate money wise, it doesnāt even have to be a hard drive, you could even store your music on CDs/DVDs - not the most convenient option I know, but itās an option - you could move the music that you donāt listen to often (or music that youāre tired of playing constantly), and keep your more frequently played music on the HDDs.
One thing Iāve learned over the years dealing with PC tech is that spinning drives is the one thing you absolutely donāt buy second hand. Plus, you canāt find 4TB or above drives second hand here. People use them till they die or repurpose them.
Second hand PC parts are generally overpriced here. People wanna get like 70, 80% of the price they paid for them. There are some reasonable sellers, but as I said, they usually donāt sell drives or sell drives that no one would need anyway (250GB, 500GB, 1TB spinning drives).
Your last suggestion is kinda good to be honest, I might opt for that.
One thing Iāve learned over the years dealing with PC tech is that spinning drives is the one thing you absolutely donāt buy second hand.
I think this actually depends on a lot of things. I have an old Dell rack server and I buy ex-enterprise SAS drives for it. I use them in RAID arrays with dedicated hot spares and cold spares on standby. The eBay seller I buy from replaced a drive for free once when it was āerror predictedā on arrival.
I have the original source for some of them, but very few, like maybe 1 or 2%.
Doesnāt matter, Iām just gonna redownload them in flac, store them on optical media as flac and keep them as HE-AAC on my NAS for local playback. Itās the only option thatās acceptable in my mind.
Not OP, but my personal (mild) meh with Libre is itās visual style. But to be fair, I use it rarely and for those few occasions Iāve been too lazy to check if there are design alternatives (which most definitely exist, weāre on Linux after all).
Even the tabbed view was hard to use for me, especially the impossible to use āstylesā box that scrolls a narrow view. I use it all the time on MS Word, and much prefer how they handle it.
Also, no CSD, so the title bar kinda just chills there, meanwhile itās used in Microsoft Word.
Yeah, let me just change my profession real quick, fuck the 20 years I have invested. Iāll just do a tapdance on my eyelashes for the neckbeards and everybody will be happy weee
LOL wait till the company your proprietary software relies on tanks or makes a shitty change for their benefit.
Itās sad you built a career out of black box code lmao. I guess 20 years isnāt enough to read the writing on the wall: proprietary code is shit. Black boxes are shit. I piss on your profession
Companies are always going to make shitty changes, but that doesnāt change the reality that industry leaders are usually in that position for a reason. You simply cannot replace After Effects without kneecapping yourself. GIMP is nowhere near as capable as Photoshop. It is impossible to develop iOS apps without Xcode, and difficult/unsupported to develop Android without Android Studio.
You can piss off your high horse as much as you want, but it is fantastical to claim that professions should hamstring their work and sacrifice reality and practicality for the sake of some ideology belief. Companies arenāt choosing these standards because they love giving away money, theyāre doing it because they recognise that rejecting a $300 annual expense for $10,000 worth of greater productivity is financially irresponsible.
And then I have to install a windows vm to be able to play all my games properly. And the practical benefit of switching is basically zero for the normal user
VM adds too much overhead for anything near modern, even if modern VM integration does add GPU drivers that act as a bridge for 3D acceleration. But SteamOS and Steamdeck are great examples of how far gaming has come in Linux, itās no longer something just on the fringe.
I sort of do agree with your last comment. I tried to introduce several family members, and their take was basically that, why bother with something that seemed as unfamiliar as Linux for something they were already used to using. And if you try to use it at work, you are going to have to end up installing a Windows VM most of the time for most jobs. Monopolies be like that.
I game on a linux mint desktop using proton all the time. The work theyāve done for the steam deck translates almost perfectly to every other Linux distro Iāve tried it on
According to the manpage --Yay --clean is the thought behind it, its a Yay specific shortcut for pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt)Remove recursive what the Query quiet (short names) on the database lists as unrequired t
Now -Yc does not sound that bad.
It is still good to learn the verbose commands for pacman/paru/yay from the manpages, once you are familiar with them its easy to build more advanced commands for special use-cases.
More than a month now, and no crashes. All the issues I had, were my fault. Although in some very specific situations it seems to get in a memory filling cycle until the swap gets filled and thereās a crash
I donāt think so. Iāve opened htop during one such event and swap space was getting filled despite the ram being mostly empty. Even after closing everything, the swap occupied continued to increase
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