Renzatic
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3 hours ago, LondonSquirrel said:
Linux on the desktop in a nutshell. Penguins say 'this is a mountain', in reality it's a molehill.
Thems fite words.
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16 hours ago, LondonSquirrel said:
Actually I am wrong. And I refer you back to an earlier comment I made about certain Linux commercial apps ONLY running on certain Linux distributions. You took issue with that. Substance Designer:
I have a license for Substance Painter and Designer as well, and I'm running it on Fedora 35 no problem. I could also install it natively through Steam if I want, since I crosslinked my accounts.
You're making a mountain out of a molehill here.
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38 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:
Steam for Linux also relies on Wine. So it's not a 100% native Linux app - it depends on Windows APIs.
No, Steam for Linux is a native app, and hosts native applications. You can use Proton to install Windows apps through it.
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1 hour ago, LondonSquirrel said:
Name a few...
Substance Painter and Designer, Quixel Mixer and Bridge, all the games on Steam and GOG with a Linux rev. Steam itself, which is now banking on Linux. It goes on and on...
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2 hours ago, IanSG said:
Nothing's gone wrong or nothing you couldn't fix? PCs have been ubiquitous for decades now, but the number of computer literate users seems to have declined (as a percentage, at least).
Nothing I couldn't fix. Computers are computers. They're going to spaz out on you at some point.
And Linux being Linux, it can sometimes kick you square in the nuts.
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16 hours ago, LondonSquirrel said:
I have 25 years experience with Linux. I've seen the inconsistencies. I've seen commercial apps which will not run on anything other than what the required distribution(s) are.
I've been using it for around 5 years now, recently exclusively, and I haven't had any problems with it.
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4 hours ago, John Rostron said:
The answer is still no.
It's less a flat no, more a "we currently have no plans, but never say never."
...I consider it an open invitation to continually bother them about it.
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24 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:
That is not correct. I have had a 'professional' app that would only work on RedHat. No amount of tinkering could convince this app to run on anything other than RedHat.
That's one example. Now, is that the exception, or the rule?
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28 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:
Definitely, Affinity should release their apps for the top 500 distributions. That should take care of 90% of Linux users.
Or they could do what Quixel does, and release a platform agnostic .appimage. Or they could do what Adobe does, and just support Redhat.
At the end of the day, Linux is Linux. If it works in one, it'll work in them all. What distro to choose isn't really an issue.
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2 minutes ago, Anon172 said:
But as I said, it has big disadvantages.
From what I gather, snaps are slowly going the way of the dodo anyway, so it's really all academic by this point.
There's only one distro out there that supports snaps out of the box, and that's Ubuntu. The rest, even those forked from Ubuntu, are using flatpaks.
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2 hours ago, LondonSquirrel said:
And here is another example of why there will never be a 'year of the Linux desktop': two competing methods of packaging up apps supposedly to make things easier. In this thread we have some people say 'use Snap', and somebody else 'use Flatpak', one saying Snap is good and the other saying Snap is bad. You cannot even agree on a packaging system.
That's pretty much Canonical (the people who maintain Ubuntu) vs. Everyone Else. In the end, it doesn't make that much of a difference, since almost all apps available as flatpaks have snaps and vice versa, and it's easy to use them both.
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13 minutes ago, Squirrel Logic said:
For every dollar we put into an iMac we can get so much more rendering power out of a PC and graphics cards that are dedicated to that type of processing.
It's the rumored up and coming Mac Pro that I'd keep my eye out on. As is, the M1 Max is performing roughly in the same ballpark as a mobile Ryzen 5900 and 3070M. While not as mind-meltingly amazing as some people claim, it's still sporting some solid performance, and the fact that it's doing it at, what, a 3rd of the TDP as the aforementioned is incredibly impressive.
An M1 designed to run in situations where cooling and power efficiency aren't as much of a concern could be a beast of a machine.
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11 minutes ago, Snapseed said:
I think it would be really helpful here if many of us Linux users took part in these beta trials for Photoshop and Illustrator to help to ensure that the online web-based versions of these two softwares worked well with different Linux distributions and to provide bug reports so that issues could be fixed before the final online products are launched.
I was considering it. Problem is, for the time being at least, you have to have a desktop version of PS or Illustrator to create new files.
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19 hours ago, Hens said:
If real development comes and companies want real security, a foundation doesn't cut it and commercial parties step in, it will be the end of the loose approach and it will be just as,... say a windows or apple computer.
There's already plenty of commercial applications available for Linux. Off the top of my head, there's Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Maya, Houdini. Plus, there's everything on Steam. It's not an FOSS wasteland with nary a paid proprietary app to be seen. It just has very weak support when it comes to graphics design apps.
There's nothing stopping anyone from making their application available for Linux.
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2 hours ago, Hens said:
But than the linux os needs to be controlled to avoid the not so nice developers whom like to get their grips on this big linux market.
Hence telemetry and bloated software to avoid privacy and system failures.
Isn't that what the linux os is all against.
Linux is controlled, both by the Linux Foundation, and the various distro maintainers.
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25 minutes ago, PaulEC said:
This is perfectly true. But, of course, the same applies to Mac and Linux!😉
The other way to look at it is to consider the size of the PC market in general. Linux may only have 2.5% of the that overall market, but that's still tens of millions of people.
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6 minutes ago, Pufty said:
Already used to using Linux daily for almost everything I need and developing user habits.
If you use Affinity Photo primarily for painting, I'd suggest learning Krita a bit more. It's arguably a better program for that than AP is, though it is weaker for photo editing.
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18 minutes ago, wonderings said:
The software is paramount and the most important piece, everything else is secondary.
For me, 90% of the software I use is available in Linux, is generally faster here, and the OS doesn't get gummy over time, requiring me to do housework to get things running smoothly again. I have so many more compelling reasons to stick to Linux than I do to go back to Windows.
The only thing I'm missing is Affinity Photo and Designer. If I had them, either natively, or through WINE, I'd be ticked freaking pink.
But hey, after the Apple event this week, I've decided to sell out, and buy a Mac. I'm still going to push for Affinity on Linux, but I'll have to be an obnoxious hipster about it to fit my new Apple lifestyle.
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4 minutes ago, wonderings said:
Not sure why you would feel dirty saying that. You might be taking and making your OS/Computer choices a little to personally. They are tools to get various tasks done. Buy the best tool for the job, there is no right or wrong, simply what is best for you.
I was being facetious.
Though I am deeply considering a Mac, which does tread on my geek street cred a bit.
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32 minutes ago, MattyWS said:
yea first thing I did was convert substance via alien, however that *is* a faf and the steam versions do simply just work.
I havent tried gaea through wine yet I should try that now !
I initially tried using the Steam versions, but I got tired of someone popping in scream "HEY WHAT'S UP YOU WANNA PLAY SOME VIDEOGAMES" every time I'd open Steam to fire up Painter, so I just learned how to install it the hard way.
If you're as desperate as I was, and can't get Alien to work, all need to do is unpack the rpm file using your archive manager, drop the the Allegorithmic folder you find within inside of /opt on root, create a .desktop file leading to the executable, and drop that in /.local/share/applications in your Home folder, and BAM...
:jazzhands: LINUX!
...or you could just install Fedora.
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3 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:
That is the Linux kernel in a nutshell.
No, the Linux kernel is pretty lean and mean, from what I understand.
It does a good job of explaining X11 though.
Affinity products for Linux
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I can get by without the vectors, but adjustment layers are a make or break feature for me. They're so important, I don't consider a photo editing app a photo editing app unless they're in there.
The good news is that adjustment layers and layer effects are planned for 3.2, which, given the improvements made in the 3.0 release, would finally make GIMP a fairly decent Photoshop/Affinity alternative. The problem is, no one knows how long that'll take. Given their track records, we could probably expect it by 2031 or so.