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.

  • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.de
    552·
    7 months ago

    First of all Linux isn’t a company, but the name some dude named Linus gave his code he put for free on the internet.

    Most modern Linux distros are still not run by companies, that’s why they don’t force the data collection, ads, ai etc down your throat.

    That said: Linux is made from thousands of interlocking programs, scripts, services and libraries, made mostly by some guys or gurls in their free time. So with a lot of stuff you need to fit it to your needs, as granular customization is to troublesome to have working out of the box for every different usecase there could be. So with most stuff you should not be afraid to learn the basics of terminal commands (packet manager, editor, foldermanagment)

    Some OS like Ubuntu and manjaro do a lot for you, but if you have weird double monitors, you may need to manually do some stuff.

    If you want as much as possible easy install options I would go with manjaro - then you can install everything where users made an AUR (arch user repository) package. Check if they have all programs you want, if not look for alternatives.

    If you want a more stable system but with a bit less possibilities, go for Ubuntu, debian, popOS or something like that.

    Some things may never run, for example for my music daw(ableton) with low latency and not native support on Linux or the htc vive wireless (where there isn’t a driver for the PCI card for Linux) I keep a win machine around. Day to day use is on debian on my side

    • dan00@lemm.eeOP
      613·
      7 months ago

      No sorry man, it’s my british humor coming out. I needed to bait some linux users :) I’m one of those evil people who works in marketing. But thank you for the tips, I do appreciate it!

      • sfera@beehaw.org
        12·
        7 months ago

        I’m one of those evil people who works in marketing.

        Yet here you are, complaining about the ads in Windows. Are you sure that you can go without them? :-D

        • dan00@lemm.eeOP
          151·
          7 months ago

          Ahah correct! But in all seriousness, i believe ads are drastically changing right now (ai is just fuel on the flame). Good advertising is great, fun and builds community, which is the end goal in my humble opinion.

          If you force me to use/install a product without telling me why, just because “trust me bro I’m Microsoft”, you are just pathetically insecure about your product and deserve 0 users.

          • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
            3·
            7 months ago

            Unfortunately, I think you’re a rare breed. I’ve met people in graphic design and marketing who will actually defend advertising practices in the face of the incontrovertible fact that: I don’t like it.

            We’re past the point of “you just don’t know what you want” and well into “we’re going to hold you down and shove it down your gd throat” territory.

      • Johanno@feddit.de
        8·
        7 months ago

        I knew it was a troll post.

        1. Company called Linux

        2. Only mentioned programs that work in Linux

        3. The general way of writing

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        I wasn’t sure myself honestly, thought I’d check if someone else brought it up first

        I think people get super excited to share the good news that it’s not a company behind it and all the benefits that come with that

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      151·
      7 months ago

      I would swap out Manjaro for Endeavour.

      I started off with Manjaro, and updates kept breaking shit. Only reason it was usable for me, was that I kept timeshift going so I could recover from an unbootable state if updates borked something.

      Especially if OPs system is unusual, I wouldn’t trust Manjaro. I’ve yet to need timeshift on my Endeavour install, while setting it up to do the same things was no more difficult.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
          31·
          7 months ago

          I approve of both of those options. Personally I simply find the AUR the most convenient community driven way to install software.

          • Damage@feddit.it
            2·
            7 months ago

            I use Fedora and I don’t remember what ever having trouble installing software, if it’s not in the repos, there’s a flatpak or appimage

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      7 months ago

      Linux is made from thousands of interlocking programs, scripts, services and libraries, made mostly by some guys or gurls in their free time.

      That’s not entirely true: Most work is paid for in some way, eg. by foundations, employees of companies which need a feature or freelancers commissioned to do some work.

      • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        7 months ago

        OK, point given What I meant was, that most distros and programs depend on some level on code written by individuals or at least without profit incentive --> therefore for those bits of code the developer isn’t liable in the same way. Sure, the core of libre office is written by programmers payed by the document foundation, but it nevertheless uses libs which are not, and therefore have not the same level of customer support or liability as Microsoft word would have, where they build most stuff in house and get played handsomely

    • jasep@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      if you have weird double monitors

      Is having more than one monitor “weird” to most Linux distros? I guess I’m a huge weirdo for having 3 then…

      • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        7 months ago

        Nah, but it sounded like its integrated in his notebook somehow AND having double touchscreens, which could have proprietary drivers or some dumb caviot. Normally having multiple monitors is not a problem (if you don’t mind windows spawning with their top bar out of frame and stuff in wayland kde)

      • ReallyZen@lemmy.ml
        2·
        7 months ago

        Not going to push Ardour if your brains are wired for Live, but have you tried Bitwig?

        (Tho Ardour has Clip Launchers now, wink wink)

        • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          7 months ago

          I had a look at it, but after paying 200€ for ableton, paying for another program which doesn’t natively integrate with my push and doesn’t have as good standard librarys, instruments, effects and sounds was to hurtfull