• Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    ngl, the “switch to linux” crowd is close to a vibe of complaining that “my car is making some weird sounds” and the response is to “buy a new car!” I mean, it would solve the problem of not having that issue with windows/your car, but it also means you have to intrusively replace your workflow and probably find some entirely new programs to do what you already could, and potentially have many new, less explicable problems, just to not have that one tiny problem that you could live around.

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      Often it’s worse. It like telling people to move to a different country because the roads are better there.

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        “My ISP, the only ISP available where I live, is terrible and unreliable.”

        “You should move.”

        That’s the “switch to Linux” energy in a nutshell.

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        Yeah nah I think of it kinda like the whole custom ROMs thing for Android. Most people could care less until performance drops to the degree that they have to switch over

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      Car is making some weird sounds -> you slipped a bearing, your head gasket is blown, or something else catastrophic, because you bought a Ford/Kia/etc. -> buy a new car

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      Ehh

      More like someone saying

      “Then change the station”

      When someone complains

      “I don’t like the ads on this radio station that I listen to in my car on the drive home”

      There’s no financial loss by doing so, it’s relatively easy, just have to find out which frequency another broadcast you like is playing on

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        But the other radio doesn’t play the vital radio show you need for work.

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        You know, I can’t remember the last time that changing the station on my radio required me to sift through thousands of subtly out of date web pages to find clues as to why I just can’t hear that one guitar riff.

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        depends how much you value your time. if you’ve nothing to do or just like fucking about with your os in your spare time then sure, linux is free. if you’re, say, a freelance graphic designer and actively losing money whilst trying to learn the foibles of a new os, and just fixing the bullshit that win & mac do by default; then it’s decidedly not

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            my dude, i haven’t booted into windows in ages. but that proves my exact point: it might save one time if ones workflow involves a lot of tasks that can be scripted. if ones workflow is “launch photoshop; browse the web for inspiration; draw for a bit; close photoshop.”, it won’t save any time. especially due to the hassle of getting photoshop working, or learning a new app like gimp or krita.

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              launch photoshop; browse the web for inspiration; draw for a bit; close photoshop

              hAvE yOu tRiEd GiMp?

              • average Linux fanboy. Thank you for not being one of those!
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                Oh man, that reminds me of the one time I promised a friend to make a poster for an event and my windows lappy died the next day. I had to shoehorn the project into gimp on my tiny netbook.

                It was painful. I’m glad for knowing how to use gimp in a pinch, and it is quite powerful software, but it felt like every tool and setting was in the wrong place after working with PS for so long.

                Also, it goes without saying that designing a full sized poster on a 10" screen is a fools errand.

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                to be fair, i actually prefer gimp. but i recognise that different things work for different people, and often it’s not worth learning new software unless it brings significant advantages