Yo linux team, i would love some advice.
I’m pretty mad at windows, 11 keeps getting worse and worse and I pretty done with Bill’s fetishes about bing and ai. Who knows where’s cortana right now…
Anyway, I heard about this new company called Linux and I’m open to try new stuff. I’m a simple guy and just need some basic stuff:
- graphic stuff: affinity, canva, corel, gimp etc… (no adobe anymore, please don’t ask.)
- 3d modelling and render: blender, rhino, cinema, keyshot
- video editing: davinci
- some little coding in Dart/flutter (i use VS code, I don’t know if this is good or bad)
- a working file explorer (can’t believe i have to say this)
- NO FUCKIN ADS
- NO MF STUPID ASS DISGUSTING ADVERTISING
The tricky part is the laptop, a zenbook duo pro (i9-10/rtx2060), with double touch screens.
I tried ubuntu several years ago but since it wasn’t ready for my use i never went into different distros and their differences. Now unfortunately, ready or not, I need to switch.
Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.
Gimp and Blender are Linux software
DaVinci Resolve has a Linux version
Code OSS (or VSCode is you want Windows telemetry included) works
a working file explorer
Not an issue, you can use Dolphin on Windows if you wanted
NO FUCKIN ADS
That’s easy
Now unfortunately, ready or not, I need to switch.
Try Mint
The things I missed are ones I know nothing about
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Resolve works on on linix but make sure you check that your codecs are supported.
Btw for running Davinci resolve try this project
It is not exactly tested but allows to pack the software into a container, making sure it works forever if it works.
Sadly, still dual boot for rhino, in a VM I’m just not getting enough performance out of my aging pc.
A Linux version would be a dream come true.
Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.
Heh it really was wasn’t it? Been on Linux for near to twenty years now and I’m still surprised to see it. :D
Linux Mint if you’re unsure
Fedora if you’re brave and want the full Toolbox
Please not Ubuntu. It has enough of its own issues that it originally turned me away from Linux.
Oh and KDE for the desktop environment if you want great out of box windows like UI if you go with Fedora. Mint comes with cinnamon which is also pretty good. xfce if you want to run linux on a potato.
In all honesty, you should decide between Debian and Fedora. If you’re new to this, stay away from Arch Linux, Gentoo, or Manjaro. Simplicity is key. The two systems I mentioned are known for their reliability, so you should be fine with either one.
- Affinity Designer can be run under Linux with Bottles translation (forum post how to set it up)
- Canva does not support Linux
- GIMP is natively supported on Linux (official website / flatpak)
- Adobe is not supported on Linux at all
- Blender is natively supported on Linux (official website / flatpak)
- DaVinci Resolve is natively supported on Linux (offical website)
- VSCode is natively supported on Linux (official website / flatpak)
- almost every DE has a file explorer
- no ads included 😀 👍
I use Canva in the browser, but I gotta say that it works better in Microsoft Edge than in Firefox. I think it may be a Chromium thing, but I haven’t tested other browsers.
Microsoft Edge works great on Linux. It is my second browser after Firefox.
Imagine switching to Linux and installing Microsoft Edge 💀
If you are made out of matter stay away from manjaro. Other than that I agree, and would recommend debian slightly over fedora but that is just personal preference. Also I feel like opensuse deserves an honorable mention. Maybe not tumbleweed, but leap could be suitable for a new user and yast rocks.
Edit: Also vscodium can be good alternative to vscode. It is vscode without Microsoft’s tracking, but an exact copy otherwise.
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Indeed, I use VSCodium on my Fedora system every day, but since the question was about VSCode, I provided information specifically related to VSCode.
Debian rigorously tests its packages over an extended period before they are released in the official version, ensuring a very stable system. This approach means the software is generally older, but it’s been thoroughly vetted. Fedora, on the other hand, provides newer software while still maintaining a good level of stability.
On the other hand, Arch Linux — and its sub-distributions like Manjaro and Gentoo — releases software much more quickly, sometimes almost immediately which can kill your system during updates.
I’d go so far as to say that Arch Linux is less stable than Windows.TL;DR: If you don’t want to find out five minutes before an online meeting that your system won’t boot — avoid Arch Linux.
Sounds like a pihole on your network would solve all of your issues.
Does that stop the ads in the Windows UI? I would not have thought so.
Also you don’t have to have a pi to run a pi hole. You can run it in windows using WSL. Just search Google for pi hole WSL. All you do is run the power shell script and it does practically everything for you
It’s just blocking the urls, if you block the ones that Windows use then it will
Also, winaerotweaker makes it easy to turn of ads, telemetry, auto updates and tons of other stuff
Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.
Errrr… why would you try to trigger people, especially while asking for their help? Don’t you think it’s plain rude?
Yeah, I’ve seen better strategic thinking…
Fair enough… but :D would you say I’m triggering ppl for attention or am I training users for a dystopian ai future?
One day when we can’t distinguish humans from bots, you will think about that rude guy on lemmy that baited you with love :)
I think it’s hilarious. If somebody gets triggered by something so simple, their advice will probably amount to “use Arch/NixOS/Gentoo” and probably isn’t worth listening to.
I thought it was pretty funny.
I thought it was funny as well. Sometimes FOSS communities are so very uptight, we should relax a bit.
Making people laugh and triggering people are quite different motives
Same here, until I read OP’s intentions.
Writing stuff to trigger people is the definition of being a troll (well, one of the possible definitions).
It’s worth nothing that a mediocre troll can sometime pass for a comedian.
Rude? That’s a bit much
You guys have a penguin up your butt or something? It was a good joke
Fuck off with your kink shaming dude.
Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.
So you’re a dick. Got it.
ad hominem much
Anyone that uses the word triggering like that is kinda a dick ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Doesn’t matter, we should attack the argument not the person.
He literally admitted to posting to trigger people. I’m stating fact that by doing so he’s being a dick. The motives of the person matters and he came in here with the purpose of pissing people off.
Clearly it worked for some.
Clearly it worked for some.
I think it clearly worked for you.
Looks to me like a little joke buried in a sincere post. You can make more out of it if you want, but I think you’re being a little bit curmudgeony.
I couldn’t care less about the original post, but I will also call people out in the hopes that they stop being a dick to others. Anyone who enjoys seeing people get agitated needs to have their head examined.
Please, let’s be clear and don’t get confused: I am in fact a huge dick.
Thank you kind man for pointing it out, i felt like someone here didn’t get my dickness fully.
If you have NVidia, I’d recommend Pop_OS!. The Nvidia controls in there for Optimus are the best that System76 has written.
If you want to test several Linux distributions Ventoy can be useful. You can have 10 or more different Linux distributions on one USB stick depending on the size of the stick. This will also save you time “flashing” an image iso to the stick each time because with Ventoy you’d simply copy the image iso files to the stick, quick and easy.
Ventoy has changed my life. No more having to find a unused usb key to format then flash.
Just drop the ISO, boot on the key and choose whatever you want to try/install.
I just discovered it last week and feel frustrated with the time I wasted sleeping on it
Huh I always thought ventoy was just another iso to usb writer. I’ve been totally sleeping on the fact it can hold a bunch of isos and installs them directly. That’s so handy
Or try them for a while in a VM, VirtualBox may not provide the best performance out there but it’s very easy to set up. This way you don’t have to commit and install the OS over your main machine or anything like that.
I’m at the point whe recommending distros fir new comers its Debian, Arch, Fedora and Linux Mint.
Debian is my go to. Stable, I love the apt package manager. Desktop environment is a bit irrelevant with recommendations because you can easily install any desktop environment or window manager. You will figure out what environment you like along the way. Installation is simple, you can do minimal installs as well and it’s what many big name distros are based on.
I really like Arch. Minimal, great package manager, AUR extends application availability even when you have flatpaks, snaps and app images and the repo. You can use the archinstall script these days so you don’t have to worry about installing the old-fashioned Arch way. It will also teach you what to do when updates fail because it’s a rolling release.
If none of those are appealing then I would advise Fedora. Great package manager, get newer packages if package versions are important for you and a solid distribution that is the upstream for Red Hat. It’s the best of both worlds of Debian and Arch in my opinion.
The last one is Linux Mint. I’ve found myself avoid recommening forks. This is my exception. I can’t say a lot because I haven’t used it much. But I’ve installed it 2x to different family members who never used Linux before and use it and love it. I did it because they are forks and I can give support because I’m familiar with what it’s based on and the high recommendation from the online community. It’s great for beginners and veterans alike from what I can tell from the online community. Great team of developers.
What about popos?
I would not recommend Arch for beginners. I like it, but it’s best for someone a bit familiar with Linux already. Yeah, the install is pretty simple now that Archinstall is a thing, but it’s not the method recommended in the Arch Wiki and if there’s something wrong with your install and you complain on the Arch Forum they might not be super helpful.
More generally, the mood on the Arch forum and Arch communities at large isn’t super beginner friendly, and thay’s understandable: In a distro meant to be user friendly and aimed at general user, if the user does what seems natural to them and the system break, the community will feel a responsibility towards them, because the system wasn’t stable and user-friendly enough. In a distro primarily aimed at power users and devs, if the user does what seems natural to them and the system breaks, then the user is a fool and should’ve read the wiki.
Because it is a very fast rolling release, some updates can break stuff. It doesn’t happen often, but it can happen at a bad time and be a big problem for someone who doesn’t know how to deal with it.
Debian is more stable, and easier if you go with a D.E, but you still have to make several choices during the install, which might be a bit complicated for a beginner who doesn’t know what any of these options mean… Tho of course, it’s possible to go with all the defaults and it’ll be alright.
But my prime recommendation would be Linux Mint.
Generally speaking, I have nothing to really argue against that…but I can only recommend based on how I have learned Linux. I have found myself only enjoying the base distros and not forks because no matter all the time I wasted distro hopping, I felt like I was using the same thing over and over again beyond the package manager or installer.
One thing I would add is, when I used Arch, I avoided the Arch forums…specifically because of what you mentioned. In one way, one should expect that of the Arch forums. If you choose to use a distro that forces you to build the system yourself, you should expect to fix your problems yourself. So the forums I found useless and never posted there. The fact there is even an Arch forum that offers supports, beyond the wiki, I find funny. I would just use the wiki and search engines.
I will not debate your thoughts on Arch though I personally have more problems on other distros. What I will say is that the EndeavourOS forums are pretty friendly. EOS is Arch for non-elitists.
Linux is the kerbal, the company would be GNU.
/s
Maybe the kernel? :)
Ah damn. Didn’t proof-read myself. It’s a fun typo though, maybe Linux is related to Jebediah?
