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IHeartBadCode, in Sell Me on Linux
@IHeartBadCode@kbin.social avatar

I’m also nervous about using an OS I’m not familiar with for business purposes right away

Absolutely STOP. Do not go with Linux, go with what you are comfortable with. If this is business, you do not have time to be uncomfortable and the learning curve to ramp up to ANY new OS and be productive is something that's just a non-negotiable kind of thing.

If you've never used Linux, play with Linux first on personal time. For business time, use what you know works first and foremost.

All OSes are tools. You do not just learn a tool when your job is waiting for a bed frame to be made or whatever.

TL;DR

If you are not comfortable with Linux, do NOT use it for business.

cmg,

Agree here.

Spend your time making sure you are protected against ransomware with good offline backups and able to recover your practice. Keep your payments separate from your comms machine.

Your job is going to have lots of shady things to click on/invoice/etc

Plan for it so a malicious client/infected evidence/mistaken click doesn’t take down your practice.

I’m 25y into this as a technologist and still make mistakes on “oh this will be quick”. Make sure your time sinks are 100% aligned with your business. Think of automation / value and you’ll have the right mindset.

If you find the tech side fascinating, there’s always demand for good tech lawyers and lawyer comms are entryways into technology management.

mayoi,

If you don’t have a cheap throwaway laptop to try doing business with Linux, you have no business doing any business.

mateomaui,

🏆 for the dumbest comment, congrats

mayoi,

If you’re really this poor, give me your address and I will mail you a thinkpad that noone will buy from me for more than $20.

Isoprenoid,

My brother in Christ, this isn’t about the money. This is about meeting business deadlines. OP can’t be using time trying to figure out something on Linux when his clients are waiting.

His first clients are also going to be where his solo practice either sinks or swims.

Seasoned_Greetings,

This guy is a troll. He spends his time picking fights and deflecting anything that conflicts with his fragile world view. Check his profile.

Just thought you should know. He doesn’t really care about dispensing advice, he just likes feeling superior

Sage_the_Lawyer,

This is good advice, I appreciate it. But I should clarify, I definitely won’t be launching my practice before I’m comfortable with the OS. I’m probably going to take some other user’s suggestions and do some test runs on my home machine to figure things out. I’m not launching tomorrow, there’s no real rush. My current contract runs until May 2024. So I’ve got 6 months ahead of me to figure things out.

hillbicks,

My advice is try using existing documents with Libre office. You can install it on windows as well.

I use Linux for over twenty years now and installed windows on a vm last week to Wirte my resume. Libre office is fine, you run into problems when opening and editing existing ms office documents. At least that is my experience.

But give Libre office on windows a shot, see if you like it.

fushuan,

I’m going to nitpick your comment because we are Linux users and it’s in our blood.

Heard about LaTex? You don’t really need to use Word to write resumes. In fact, I’d advise you against it. It’s easier to go to overleaf, download an existing template and generate a usable pdf that won’t break.

grue,

Switch to Linux at home now. In six months, you’ll have a much better idea if you want to use it at work.

d3Xt3r,

In addition to the other comment re. LibreOffice, I’d also recommend trying out OnlyOffice - generally, it has better compatibility with MS Office formats compared to LO, and the UI is very similar to MSO which may make it easier to use.

constantokra,

PDFs might be your sticking point. I’ve not found any software that will handle all the different things you can do with acrobat in an easy way. But I have to heavily modify PDFs from time to time, and you may not have nearly the needs I do.

I’d suggest checking out libre office, and see if you can find a PDF application that satisfies you. The app store on pop os is really good, as is the interface, and if you don’t like tiling window managers, you can turn it off.

Another suggestion is to recognize you’re a novice. If you read something that sounds like a perfect setup, but it’s a little complicated, put it off. You don’t want to get in over your head, because linux distros will not keep you from breaking things. The defaults of any large distribution are a pretty safe bet.

cmnybo, in Shadow Cast: GPU accelerated screen and audio recording for Linux

It has no support for AMD or Intel GPUs though.

sonymegadrive,

I absolutely plan to support team red/blue GPUs. I just don’t have access to the h/w right now

anon_8675309, in Sell Me on Linux

Nope. Try it and be your own objective judge.

poddo, in Sell Me on Linux

Youre a lawyer just get a mac lmao

das_monk, in Audio Hardware Question from a Linux newbie

I think it might have to do with the lock screen. Try locking the screen while audio is playing and see what happens. If that is the case I think there might be a workaround that involves reverting to the old lock screen or something. Hope this helps…

nfsu2, in Sell Me on Linux
@nfsu2@feddit.cl avatar

Linux is usually light compared to windows, and no nonsense bloatware and faster to run. Plus is customizable.

If you are a lawyer I assume you are looking for stability and prefer simple over complex. So my guess is that Debian(since is the most stable rock solid distro) would suit you, and most importantly is the desktop environment, if you are looking something similar to Windows I would choose KDE Plasma and if you like MacOS interface then Gnome. Both of them are very different but customizable, I find Gnome is simpler and less busy and Plasma is full of features but busy IMO. Oh and Cinnamon desktop environment is best of both worlds I think. If you are concerned about security and encryption then I’m afraid I can’t advice you on that. Finally I recommend looking up in “distrowatch” if you are looking for something most specific, most distros come with Libre Office as some of the comments point out. There are some distros specifically made for business wich I would recommend if you go big.

Here is a post I made of my desktop with Gnome so that you can see how it look and feels.

feddit.cl/…/39b62b9a-ebfa-4d4e-a944-4a58cc765357.…

das_monk, in Switched to Linux, don't know what to do

If it’s looks and customisation you want, search KDE plasma on YouTube

Skelectus,
@Skelectus@suppo.fi avatar

Very much. No clue how it’s gonna work on mint, but plasma will give you the customizability to fiddle with.

das_monk,

If it’s not in the repo he could just as well install another distro which supports it

authed, in Any way of reinstalling Fedora 39 while on Fedora 38?

When booted in fedora 39, maybe enter the console and try to start X manually to see why it fails

lauha, (edited )

Fedora uses wayland

just_another_person,

They mean use the CTRL+ALT+num key combos to get a TTY. Google to figure out which Fedora uses.

First link I found explained it: dhiller.de/…/switch-to-console-on-fedora.html

Pantherina,

Starx only works for X11. Wayland Desktops have different implementations like startplasma-wayland

teh_shame, in Any way of reinstalling Fedora 39 while on Fedora 38?

The options when you boot are the kernel versions not the Fedora version. You’re not booting into Fedora 38, you’re booting Fedora 39 with a 38 kernel.

There’s nothing wrong with using a Fedora 38 kernel on 39 if it works. There’s probably a kernel bug affecting your computer in the current 39 kernel that’s making it not work

The easiest solution will be to wait for a new kernel and hope it fixes this bug

redimk,
@redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Sorry for my ignorance, but how does that work? I (think) I understand what a kernel is, but how am I using Fedora 39 with a 38 kernel? Is there a documentation I can read somewhere so I can understand how that works?

Today it got fixed somehow, I just booted up Fedora 39 and it just worked. Also thanks a lot for the answer!

0xtero, (edited ) in Sell Me on Linux

I’m also nervous about using an OS I’m not familiar with for business purposes right away.

Keep using what gets the job done. That's what computers are for. Do not switch to Linux.

0xtero, in This Threat to Free Software is Worse than I Thought...

Chat Control is a huge privacy problem.
But a threat to free software? Nah.

But the coming Cyber Resilience Act might be
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/eus-proposed-cyber-resilience-act-raises-concerns-open-source-and-cybersecurity

Adanisi,
@Adanisi@lemmy.zip avatar

It really is all going to shit, isn’t it?

mvirts, in Audio Hardware Question from a Linux newbie

ubuntu-mate.community/t/…/26220

Maybe this? I think spdif is a more relevant search term, toslink didn’t seem to turn up much.

das_monk, in Sell Me on Linux

If you’re looking for something to buy, look elsewhere… Linux is FREE

Sage_the_Lawyer,

Oh I’m aware the OS is free. The affordability I was asking for was for the actual computer to run it. I guess that part wasn’t Linux-specific. Mostly just looking for a good option for a work computer that will last a while. Will probably just get some kind of refurb laptop, I’ve always had good success with those.

But if someone has a specific recommendation I’m all ears.

UnexploredEnigma,

If you are ever going to bring a Linux machine to display evidence, I would suggest going in and testing beforehand. Should be fine but always anticipate failures is my takeaway

Nyfure,

The Lenovo Business Laptops always were super strong for me.
A bit on the heavy side (at least on the older models), but build like a tank and has an awesome keyboard.
But any halfway decent Laptop will run Linux fine.

knobbysideup, in Audio Hardware Question from a Linux newbie

See if there’s a way to disable power save for your audio driver module.

I had to do this for Intel for example


<span style="color:#323232;">#/etc/modprobe.d/audio_disable_powersave.conf
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> options snd_hda_intel power_save=0
</span>
mateomaui, (edited ) in Sell Me on Linux

I’m also nervous about using an OS I’m not familiar with for business purposes right away.

Install the latest version of VMware Player (17.5) on your current OS, then install linux distros on virtual machines to figure things out first.

If you settle on any you like, make a full disk image backup, before repartitioning to install linux as a dual boot setup and try it on hardware that way.

Keep the Windows partition around, if nothing else just for games or apps that don’t work on linux, or as your backup working profession setup.

edit: some will recommend VirtualBox instead, but for me (on Windows at least) it always resizes on startup incorrectly and obscures part of the desktop, so I have to manually resize on every VM boot. VMware does it properly each time for me without issues.

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