Been rocking a FW12 with no plans to upgrade or replace any time soon. It’s perfect for meetings and travel. Though this thread is probably asking folks that use the 13 as a daily driver.
I did just order a FW desktop to replace an old custom build, because desktop is my daily driver.
I’ve tried many distros over a 20 year period. I’m happy with CachyOS.
I’m getting used to Inkscape, but as much as I do not like Adobe as a company, I do miss Illustrator. My workflow speed has taken a bit of a hit, but overall, with all other things Linux vs Windows considered, I have no regrets on switching to Linux completely.
“Our team focuses on Linux for many ASUS hardware…”
I wish ASUS would focus on their hardware, too.
It’s a bucket list item to someday have a pull request merged into a branch of the Linux kernel.
Linux hobbiest for a couple decades, began daily driving a couple months ago. My workflows for graphic design have been extremely stunted without being able to use Illustrator.
I’ve been looking for a reasonable replacement since 2012. Reasonable meaning it can do everything I need it to do and without slowing down productivity. So, this pain point didn’t come as a surprise, it just is.
It’s a tradeoff I made willingly and with full knowledge of the ramifications. I have zero regrets, even if I’m handicapped on certain tasks.
Now that I’m daily driving, I’ve been able to learn much more than when I just had Linux on my gaming box. For instance, I friggin love how expandable Dolphin is. Batch resize and convert images with a couple clicks from a file browser? Hell yeah!
The terminal has also become a closer friend, but I still hate VIM. :p
Haven’t used my client in almost a year, but my repeater is still running strong.
Made that mistake last week. Luckily it was just a chmod and not a rm. Stomach did a flip regardless.
If it’s doing what you need it to do, no reason to rock that boat! It is fun to try out other distros without distro hopping, just to see what’s out there. That’s what a good thumb drive is for!
Start the eBay bidding at $500
Am I missing something, or did they just dress up a woman with a prosthetic leg to resemble an android, and remove the dressing around the prosthetic to “prove” she isn’t human?
+1 for Davinci replacing Premier (and its built-in Fairlight replacing Audition, for that matter).
However, it’s kind of weird that they say GIMP is a reasonable alternative to Photoshop, but RawTherapee isn’t for Lightroom.
And there is no mention of Illustrator.
The reason for that is, for those that use Illustrator as a part of their professional workflow, there is no viable alternative. There is software that can do some tasks the same, some tasks differently but at the same speed, some tasks the differently but take longer to achieve, and some tasks not at all. It’s those last two that make switching unviable for folks that use it as one of their primary tools for paying the bills
Again, I know it wasn’t mentioned in the article, I just thought it was strangely left out when just as poor alternatives to Photoshop were cited.
To be clear, I hate adobe. I hate windows (and apple). I’ve been trying to break completely free since 2011. I do revisit the available Linux software alternatives every few years, but never hold my breath. I even donate to projects that show promise. It’s just not there yet. To make a claim that it is, for anyone but hobbyists, is asinine.
So many people are in that same “would if they could” boat. But you can’t simply restructure your entire workflow if the resulting workflow doesn’t work.
Gotcha. Well, I learned something new, so thanks for the detailed explanation!
What sort of things have you ran in to? Were they mostly issues related to hardware?
I recently gave CachyOS a shot and only ran into one issue, and resolved it by updating pacman. I’ve been using CachyOS ever since. YMMV.
Thanks for the update!
What’s the verdict?
That’s the one, and thanks! My son and I got into Meshtastic as a hobby, and I guess ham radio was the next logical direction for our interest. It’s fun learning the science behind how it works.
Fun fact! I’m studying for my amateur radio technician license and learned that ham came from calling amateur telegraph operators’ sloppy work ‘ham-fisted’. The amateur radio community decided to lean into it, and thus the ham radio operator was born
Well that’s just neat.