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nBlaze

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  1. Well, it's not all sunshine and rainbows. Last week I had to do urgent video conference - webcam on my main PC died and it suddenly turned out Linux really doesn't like the webcam in my Asus Transformer. After an hour of tinkering I just gave up and decided to just install Win11. Got everything working within 30 mins - preparing installer USB included. Sure, went back to Linux afterwards - 2 hours of actually using Win11 was enough to make me hate it - but it's not always as simple as plug and play.
  2. You're very emotional about it, but yeah, that does ring true. If the app support was there, I'd probably use Windows Mobile much longer than I did. I still prefer it over Android or iOS, but low market share and lack of developer support killed it. But it's kinda chicken or egg situation - even before it lost majority of app support its market share was quite low. As for the Mac vs Windows... it's a different ballpark. Windows is the default desktop system with a majority of market share, BUT that includes not only creatives, but also everyone from accountants and gamers to soccer moms just harvesting virtual tomatoes on Facebook. And you can't throw a MacBook without hitting a creative of some sort. Total market share is much lower than Windows, sure, but what share there is is basically your target audience. As for Linux sure, this thread is a proof there are creatives who want to use it. But we're still like 1% of 1%.
  3. I suppose he meant bloat as in constantly adding bells and whistles on top of old stuff rather than rewriting some of it from scratch. Like the Settings, which, after 10 years, is still half-baked and doesn't have half the commonly used stuff from the good old (or rather 'ancient') Control Panel. (At least from an IT professional standpoint, maybe end users don't need to go there half as often). But you could also count other stuff as bloat - ton of useless apps (even before hardware manufacturers add their own), ads and insane amount of telemetry that you can't even turn off without digging in the registry or using third-party software.
  4. +1 for the Linux version. Windows is getting more annoying to use with every update, so I went penguin on some of my devices - and Affinity is one of the few things I miss in day-to-day use. That said, I do have a workaround, something I haven't seen mentioned earlier - remote desktop. It's situational and won't work for everyone, but it's the best solution I found so far. Since my main workstation at work will run Windows for the forseeable future, is on 24/7 and I already had it configured for RDP connection, I figured I can just run the programs there (with all my usual files, fonts and assets readily available) and simply connect to it from my Linux laptop. Not the most ideal solution, since you still need another PC to run the software on, but hey - it works.
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