Ahh, but what OS does Joi use?
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I've tried installing Linux on two computers four times last month, but I haven't been able to for one reason or another. I've already spent an hour debugging simply because I cancelled the installation once at the wrong time (ie. any time after hitting start) and had to go in there and rename shit (??????). If the community really wants us to switch, it needs to iron out all this garbage at the front door. I can only imagine the frustration of getting everything else up and running. Fuck these headaches. I've had a better UX installing Windows, which I did about 10 times last year without a hitch.
I don't know what distro you're installing or what the hell you're doing, but most of the time it's trivial. From my experience, the Linux installation is much simpler and easier than Windows.
It is different though, so if you bash your head against it expecting Windows then you're obviously going to have a bad time. You need to start with the understanding that it's a different thing and you'll have to learn it, just like you did Windows when you first started with that. You weren't instantly an expert. You just forgot what it was like to be a noob who doesn't know what they're doing.
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it sounds like you better stick to windows. installing something like Ubuntu or KDE Neon is a no-brainer usually, i never had issues installing the os before (those come later admittedly)
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If you don't understand or want to learn, then linux isn't for you. You may ask a computer savvy friend to teach you.
It's a non-trivial thing and it requires some skills that many people aren't really trained for.
SteamOS proves that Linux doesn't need technical expertise to operate.
All Linux OSs need to aim for SteamOS's UX, imo, if they want to see greater adoption.
Unless the point is to keep normies from migrating to it, which is just bass ackwards.
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If Adobe would put its products on Linux I wouldn’t need Windows (or Mac) anymore. Unfortunately a lot of my work still requires being able to open things in Indesign and XD.
In the same boat. Been practicing GIMP but 25 years of PS is difficult to break away from =/ plus god forbid colleagues put in an ounce of effort in meeting to understand that PS isnt the only way to crop a damn image
I would preach about Affinity, but it doesn’t work on Linux either. Productivity apps in general are a lot more problematic than games.
Yeah. I am forced to keep one windows computer around for MasterCAM. I likely won't be able to pay to reup that license, though so I might be forced to try to make FreeCAD or similar work.
I still use VirtualBox with Windows 10 to launch all the Affinity products because GIMP is so bad. And for browser fingerprint protection, e.g. chrome (ungoogled) on windows, because no browser fakes it. Not mullvad, Tor or Brave.
I think GIMP is great. It does everything most people need it to do. You just have to take time to learn how to use it, just like with everything else.
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Keep hoping.
Most users don't care that their OS is outdated or unsafe.
EAC is the only thing holding me back, and I don’t trust it on a VM since it does some deep hardware voodoo.
It’ll probably live on its own machine I only use for that purpose.
Before I read the further comments I was going to say Easy Anti-cheat does work fine. Lol. You may want to write out the full name first to avoid confusion in the future.
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Whats EAC again? I'm always eager to learn what possible show stoppers exist for people.
Exact Audio Copy
I own a lot of CDs.
Oh interesting! What do you use for that and what is the result? Flac or other?
Yeah, FLAC. EAC has numerous checks to make sure the rip was flawless. I then either listen from my computer on speakers attached to a stereo, or I stream via Plex/Jellyfin. I have wired and wireless headphones and earbuds I use depending on what I’m doing when listening.
I already had lots of CDs before streaming was a thing, but still (more often than I’d expect) I come across albums that aren’t on any streaming platform.
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EasyAntiCheat. Not sure why it'd stop them, because Proton has an EAC runtime.
Why don't we have an open source anti-cheat protocol that is a demon-level service. Everyone hates kernel anti-cheat, but only because they're close source, so why don't we have one that's open source. Seems like a simple solution.
honestly doing it server-side should be the norm.
I don't think it can work if it's open source probably. There's always ways around anti-cheat. It's only a matter of finding it. Making it open source makes it trivial.
With that said, kernel level anti-cheat doesn't really seem to slow anyone down much. I've heard that the games with them still have plenty of hackers. Why try to solve a problem with such a big weapon if it isn't going to work anyway? Best case, it potentially adds some really deep vulnerabilities to your system, and maybe slightly slows down hackers.
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Valve will figure it out for us and then offer it for any game published on Steam.
Dunno what state their own services are in currently for games like TF2, CS2 and Deadlock.