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You can use [url=https://ostechnix.com/convert-linux-packages-alien/]Alien[/url] to convert .rpms to .debs, and vice versa. It's a slight pain in the butt, and you'll still have to write your own .desktop file, but it does work. Also, Quixel Mixer has a Linux version in the works, and the Windows version seems to perform fairly well through Wine. Ditto on that latter bit for Gaea.

More like a few months. They've already submitted their first patch, and Metal GPU Cycles rendering is expected in the 3.1 or 3.2 release. Full 100% Metal support replacing OpenGL/Vulkan will take awhile, but we're still going to start seeing some advantages pretty quickly.

I feel kinda dirty saying this, but now that Apple's supporting Blender with native Metal support, it's really got me wanting to buy a Mac. The Affinity programs are already there, arguably being their home platform. Substance Painter and Designer are there. And now Blender. It's got everything I want, and the performance is apparently outstanding. ...am I...am I a bad person?

Unless your OS keeps getting in your way, or doesn't do certain things as well as other OSes, hence the reason why some people are jumping over to Linux.

I was wrong about one thing: it's not Peppermint I use, but Lollypop. You'd think it'd have a lollipop icon, but no, that'd be too obvious. Instead, it's a peppermint.

Just do what I do. I use Peppermint for all the songs I have saved to my computer. If I'm out and about, I'll just use Spotify. Well, it ain't TOTALLY magic. It's still based on Wine, and very, very game-centric, making it fairly unlikely that it'll support Affinity any better than what we've already seen. I did hop over to ProtonDB to look up Affinity Photo, but all I saw was an entry for Hentai Jigsaw Photo Studio: Fruit Girls, so...yeah, I don't know what to make of that.

Hey, it's been 4 days since the last post. Linux here yet?

He might be using an extension or two to move around some stuff on the top bar, but that's almost the default out of the box Gnome setup for Pop_OS. And Gnome these days, especially Gnome 40, looks a lot like MacOS.

I know you've already been quote-hammered on this, but I feel like adding my own two cents into the mix. Linux's open sourceness is something of an aside. Yeah, you do have a fair number of FOSS zealots flying the ideological flag over the penguin, but when you get right down to it, it's just an OS, same as Windows and MacOS. There is no requirement that all software released on an open source OS has to be open sourced itself. Anyone can put whatever they want on Linux, proprietary or not.

3D DCCs, where a good 90% of the software available has Linux support in some shape, form, or fashion. It's also has small, but decent amount of video editors available for it too.

You may be able to do something similar to this with Winget, MS' home grown package manager. There's an experimental feature that allows you to install Store apps from the command line using it. https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2021/01/install-apps-from-the-microsoft-store-using-winget/

I'm always up for a good lawsuit. So...who we suing?

I believe that there's a way to see what API calls a WINE program is making through the terminal. I haven't done it myself, but it'd be something to look into if you're really interested in getting it running.

I use Insync for my Onedrive account. It's pretty solid.

Eh, it's only difficult if you're trying to install from the source code Nvidia provides. Almost every distro out there provides the compiled drivers in their package managers, which can be installed in about 5 seconds.

The thing that boggles my mind is that, for all the recent FOSS success stories, why is it that Gimp, one of the founding FOSS projects, is still struggling along with just two developers receiving barely any funding for their work.

I recently fired up a beta rev for Gimp 3.0 (officially 2.99.6) to see if it's improved in any way. On the plus side, since it's using the GTK 3.0+ toolkit, it now looks like a proper, professional app. From a presentation standpoint, I actually think it looks a little better than Photo. I can resize the color wheel! On the negative side of things, it's still Gimp. No adjustment layers, no layer effects, and it still has that same slow as molasses workflow. Like why does it always have to pop up that dialog box when I make a new layer? JUST MAKE A FREAKING EMPTY LAYER! So, in digest, new Gimp doesn't make me quite as angry as it used to, but using it still makes me want to punch stuff.

Yeah, you can. When you get right down to the bare basics, the only real differences between all these various distros is when they update their libraries. Appimages, flatpaks, and snaps solve this problem by including all the libraries with it, making this a non-issue. ...as has been stated many a time before in this very thread. But what about desktop environments? Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, etc. etc. etc.? Doesn't matter. They're all cross compatible with each other. Worst case scenario is that you get an app that doesn't fit in with the style of the rest of your desktop. But hell, Windows users have been facing this problem for years and years now, and it hasn't been a dealbreaker. It's the same on Linux. But what about package managers, distro specific installers, and all that good stuff? Yeah, back in the day, it was something of a pain when you had an .rpm file, but you were on a Debian based distro, and you had to use something like Alien to convert the installers. It's hardly an issue anymore though. Why? Because you have appimages, flatpaks, and snaps now. Package managers these days are more about how your distro updates itself, and where you get your FOSS software. It's just not as big of a deal as you think it is anymore. If the Affinity suite were to come to Linux, all Serif would have to do is target a distro to serve as a base to support, and they're done.

And you've been told many a times that it's not nearly as tricky as you're making it out to be.

Yup. I'm pretty sure I've stated the above at least 3 times in this thread alone. It's bound to happen in these long running topics. Honestly, Linux or not, I'm surprised Serif hasn't done so already. Just about everyone else provides their software through Steam, and there's a fair number of people who prefer to use it exclusively over any other app store. ...though it is very, very crowded these days.

Serif already sells the Windows versions of their apps off their own storefront, which I imagine provides them all the analytics they need. Providing a Linux version alongside it probably wouldn't be that difficult. Though Steam is a good 2nd option, since it's unofficially the official proprietary app storefront for all Linux distros. As for libraries and whatnot, targeting a single distro, like either Red Hat, or Ubuntu, as a support foundation, then releasing either a flatpak or .appimage with all the libraries included would be the path of least resistance. That's pretty much what everyone else does these days.

The one biggest takeaway I have from this conversation is wondering what happened to make the mods here put a daily limit on likes. ...whatever it was, it must've been horrible.

Yeah, that probably would be something of a buzzkill, expecting some new breakthrough on the Affinity on Linux front, and getting...well, this.

You're right. This conservation isn't really doing anyone any good. But it's been a fun way to spend a boring Sunday morning.

I eat wontons wantonly. What you're arguing is somewhat like arguing some program or another wasn't actually on Windows first, because it came out on NT originally, and NT wasn't really Windows until later. Like ClairelyClair said above, it's a distinction without much of a difference.