Renzatic
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4 minutes ago, Snapseed said:
For anyone else reading this post, Gnome Boxes should be available in the relevant Linux software store and you can install Windows plus other Linux distributions. It is also possible to install macOS using Gnome Boxes and online instructions are available on how to do just that.
Unless things have changed recently, Gnome Boxes doesn't let you passthrough a GPU. I wouldn't use Photo or Designer in a VM that lacks that option.
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11 hours ago, AdamStanislav said:
I did not say it did. Or that it did not. I simply pointed out why a commercial software publisher may be worried about what might happen in the future. Since GNU licensing has never been decided by courts (at least not as far as I am aware), such a publisher, especially a relatively small one, might even worry about the remotest possibility of simply being sued, which can be a very costly headache.
It's possible that the unexplored potentialities of the GPL might scare away a few developers, though generally speaking, it's not much of a concern. Proprietary software isn't exactly rare on Linux, open sourced software and APIs are common on proprietary platforms, and lawsuits are pretty few and far between.
If we go by history, the only time the Software Freedom Conservancy goes after someone is when they directly alter GPLed code for their own use, and release it commercially without offering up said altered code for free download on request.
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1 hour ago, AdamStanislav said:
Perhaps had Linus not fallen for Richard Stallman’s ideology and changed the name from Linux to GNU/Linux, commercial software vendors would not have to worry about accepting the current or any future version of the license, while having no say on what that future version might demand of them, they might be much more accepting of Linux.
Commercial software on Linux doesn't risk running afoul of the GPL. So long as no one take any open sourced code licensed under such to use in their software, the two can pretty much exist side by side.
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13 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:
I'm only replying because it might appear rude not to.
Maybe to some people, though we'd understand.
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1 hour ago, Snapseed said:
To be fair
To be faaiiiirrrhhhh, it's taking every ounce of my willpower to not post some Letterkenny up in here.
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51 minutes ago, chiddekel said:
There is even documentation of Installation process - https://kb.corel.com/en/128233
Why they can't just provide an .rpm or .flatpak is beyond me. Hell, that's what the Substance Suite does. You can install it in just two clicks.
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40 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:
The customers are just not there. Not anywhere near enough. Companies that have tried have been bitten. Corel, WordPerfect, Borland, ...
To be fair, when they made the attempt, Linux was still fairly janky, and required a degree in computer science to install.
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On 5/28/2022 at 7:16 PM, MattyWS said:
You want to be a showoff, huh? Well, fine then. I'll play your game!
I'm on a tree kick at the moment. Shudup.
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On 5/24/2022 at 2:41 PM, LondonSquirrel said:
This in a nutshell is THE problem for Linux. If I want to install a graphics app I might have to Google for Wayland bugs. That is not my problem. If Wayland becomes the standard for Linux then this app will not work.
If you're worried about things not working in Wayland, then just use Xorg. It's still a few years until Wayland becomes the exclusive standard, and any app that ends up not working on it probably won't have been updated for years by that point anyway.
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Is this...how it ends? Not with a bang, but with silence? The only sound being the pat-pat-patter of quiet tears we shed in the dark?
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1 hour ago, MikeW said:
In this day and age, I would gladly use an OS that doesn't collect all the metrics. But today, I need X number of applications that only two I use can run fine on Linux. Those two would be enough if I ever fully retire.
It's something of an opposite situation for me. Everything I use runs just fine in Linux, either natively, or under WINE. The only exception to this are the Affinity programs, which I dearly miss, but can work around their absence fairly easily.
I continue to support the push for Serif to publish on Linux, because hey, I'd like to have my cake, and eat it too.
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7 minutes ago, IanSG said:
And it only took 30 years!
Hey, better late than never.
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2 hours ago, LondonSquirrel said:
... is that the Linux desktop market share is not worth time/money developing for.
It's popular enough to get Crystal Caves.
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4 hours ago, IanSG said:
I don't see Win 11 driving people away, and certainly not into the arms of Linux. I know one person who's "upgraded", and he's monumentaly unimpressed - everyone else is ignoring it. fwiw my guess is that MS will extend the support period for Win 10 and hope that the number of people who can't use 11 drops enough that they can be ignored.
The way I see things going, with Wine/Proton growing in support and compatibility, and Windows Subsystem for Linux being a thing, I see the future being fairly platform agnostic.
There's no reason to fret when Windows can run Linux apps, and Linux can run Windows apps. Just pick whichever you like best.
EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF LINUX!
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5 hours ago, LondonSquirrel said:
No. Your argument is a fallacy. I have never said there are no Linux users. I have said that I have never seen a Linux user in a coffee shop. As I go to a coffee shop > 3 times a week I would expect by now to see at least 1.
Yeah, and I'm telling you they're all POSERS! Like those people who drop $3 grand on a Macbook Pro, and only use it to hit up Facebook and Instagram.
FOR SHAME!
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1 hour ago, LondonSquirrel said:
Evidence of the old glazzies. Go to any coffee shop and see for yourself what people are using. I have never seen anyone using Linux in a coffee shop. I have seen innumerable Macs and Windows users. Never once, not even one, Linux user.
That's probably cuz they were all posers.
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16 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:
Gnome 4 was released less than a year ago. Gnome 3 was inflicted on its users for about 10 years. Everything I wrote has been true for >20 years with Linux.
Most of the issues with Gnome were ironed out by 2015. Gnome 4 basically took that, and switched it from a vertical layout to a more standardized horizontal one.
19 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:Yes, the Linux way: copy what somebody else has done.
Yeah, let's not let this devolve into some internet style platform war BS, huh?
20 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:Exactly as I wrote above, the Linux desktop is merely acceptable within limits. If you don't need MS Office and you don't need Adobe and you don't need (any of thousands of apps which only run on Windows or macOS) you can get by with Linux.
Like I said, it works for me.
I don't recommend Linux to everyone. If your primary concerns are 2D graphic design, it'd be better to stick with Windows and Macs, yeah.
21 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:Er, Affinity? I think I have just proven the falseness of your statement.
Considering I admitted to such just below, that's not much of a revelation. The Affinity programs are my one big exception.
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16 hours ago, LondonSquirrel said:
Linux has its place. It is not great on the desktop, it is merely acceptable within limits. Those limits have barely changed in >20 years. The same arguments being made today in favour of Linux are all but identical to those 20 years ago, with a few name changes. If only so and so company would release drivers for their graphics cards (Nvidia), if only so and so company would make versions of their software available for Linux (in this forum, Affinity). Linux has no great 'gee whiz, I really couldn't do without that' feature. I'm glad that you like it and can work within its limits.
The thing is, most of your complaints are sourced from things that haven't generally been true for 10 years now. Gnome 4 is pretty well awesome (though admittedly very Mac like), every program I use either has a native rev, or works perfectly in Wine. It never crashes, and requires very little upkeep. Hell, I barely even have to enter into the terminal anymore. The only limitation I have relative to Windows is that I don't have access to Affinity Photo and Designer outside of a VM.
Yeah, you could get into the weeds over things like systemd, but that's really more hardcore dev nerds concerning themselves over what they consider best practice, and doesn't effect end users at all.
Also, I'm using native proprietary Nvidia drivers.
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27 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:
You are not running Affinity on Linux. You are running Affinity on a Windows virtual machine on Linux. At which point I have to ask... what's the point? You have gained nothing, and you will undoubtedly lose performance.
I can't speak for everyone, but verything I use my computer for generally runs better in Linux. I'm not using it just so I can toot the FOSS horn.
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1 hour ago, neptronix said:
I'm going to try the vmware player route today and see how it goes.
If I were to do it, I'd use KVM first and foremost. I don't have much experience with virtual machines in general, having only dabbled here and there, but I hear it's the most performant of the bunch on Linux.
...though getting GPU passthrough to work does require some funky command line goodness.
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No, there's a good reason. The developers actually spent a good amount of time improving Blender, and keep to a regular release schedule, always offering features people want, and are comparable to the competition.
GIMP? Well, GIMP doesn't really do that. Their devs are planning on some nice new features, but we probably won't see them for another 4 to 6 years.