Yup. Photoshop and Lightroom. But also Microsoft Office. Alternatives don't include Outlook, which is very important to me.
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Linux performance is looking good compared to Windows
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You could argue that GIMP is a kinda-sorta-maybe replacement for Photoshop, but quite inferior. There is NOTHING in the Linux world to replace Lightroom. I'm not a pro, but I use Lightroom on a weekly, if not daily basis. I've even experimented with DAMS like Photo Supreme (crappy) and iMatch (pretty good). The ecosystem of Lightroom plug-ins is invaluable, and those depend on the Adobe SDK.
https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
Its not a replacement in anyway. But if you only need the gimp now and then... but remember all the old photoshop shortcuts. You know from back when Adobe wasn't a company to avoid unless you can't.
I am not holding my breath for Adobe Linux support... though it still boggles my mind they don't support Linux considering the number of Linux workstations in the VFX industry. Seems a no brainer to just officially support IBM RHEL only or something.
I would actually rather see Affinity, support Linux. I know they got sold a year back and people were worried their software has remained reasonably priced and competes very well with Adobe without all the Adobe sub BS.
Darktable and Rawtherepee for RAW processing. I'm not sure if they replace all the management features it seems some people like about lightroom. Hey don't get me wrong, if your a professional photographer or something you should really be on a Mac. That is meh advice, but I mean what can you do for that type of thing its just the best experience right now... and if its your living, hey it doesn't make sense to mess around.
For people like me though that just wants to process their RAW files on their now somewhat dated Sony digital SLR, I mean Rawt and darktable do a good job.
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Some are small businesses. The last business I did they have Macs, but one was a 13 year old Mac that can't get any updates. They just needed it for email, to log into inventory websites, and to sync their calendar with their iPhones, iPads, and their newer Macs. So I put Mint on the old Mac and installed Thunderbird for their mail and calendar, and Brave for their inventory. They couldn't be happier not to have to buy a new Mac. The Mac is also now infinitely faster than it was than with the ancient version of macOS that it had.
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The last version of Office I used was Office 2007. Since then I've been using free alternatives like OpenOffice and now LibreOffice. For personal stuff this works great. If I was a professional then I'd have no choice but to use MS Office.
I've never needed Lightroom. I'm not big into taking photos. If I do then I just copy it into a folder and call it a day. If I had to use something like Lightroom then there are alternatives. This is another one of those if I'm a professional vs a casual user. If I was a professional photographer then Lightroom would make sense.
View: https://youtu.be/Utl7bJvlTpk?si=UydHh6YwWgdZ6zht
I might have tried that Github to alter GIMP. It's certainly more like Photoshop but I immediately ran into issues while using it. I'm not sure why Adobe hasn't made their software for Linux as it would just expand their business. Considering Adobe's reputation, I'd rather someone make a fork of GIMP that's as Photoshop like as possible. Or maybe Krita could make a shortcut+theme like setup that works like Photoshop.https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
Its not a replacement in anyway. But if you only need the gimp now and then... but remember all the old photoshop shortcuts. You know from back when Adobe wasn't a company to avoid unless you can't.
I am not holding my breath for Adobe Linux support... though it still boggles my mind they don't support Linux considering the number of Linux workstations in the VFX industry. Seems a no brainer to just officially support IBM RHEL only or something.
I would actually rather see Affinity, support Linux. I know they got sold a year back and people were worried their software has remained reasonably priced and competes very well with Adobe without all the Adobe sub BS.
View: https://youtu.be/ur16YaAgte8?si=Yoy8q_Vl_MuphcPF
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GIMP is, and always has been, a steaming pile of crap. And no, it isn't actually good now, and the headline of that video is hilarious. "It no longer sucks?"
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If you watch the video you can conclude that he thinks it still sucks too. He even used the patch ChadD suggested which I've also tried. Even he thinks that the only real free alternative is Photopea which I agree is the next best thing to Photoshop... which still sucks because it isn't open source, works only in a web browser, and shows ads. He even showed Krita which also has it's limitations. It's really sad that all these years later and no open source photo editor can match CS6 from 2012. I don't care about Lightroom and MS Office because there are pretty good alternatives for these, but Photoshop is just hard to beat. Luckily for video editing we do have Davinci Resolve on Linux, which is arguably the best video editing software out there. The only thing here is that again I'm not a professional video editor so I use Kdenlive and it works great for me. Just so happens Kdenlive is open source and free.
I guess the basic take away is that if you aren't a professional then a lot of the free open source software works for Linux. If you are a professional then you really need to do some research if you can get away with Linux, like this guy. Except photo editing. Open source photo editors still suck compared to Photoshop.
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Has anybody actually seen an insurance contract that had direct wording requiring antivirus software?
I hear that thrown around a lot, but nobody seems to have seen it first hand.
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Oh hey, AMD is discontinuing AMDVLK driver. I'll miss never using this driver.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-Discontinued
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-Discontinued
I don't think many companies let you read their policy.
Cyper security riders are common. I don't know if they all have specific "must use" lines in them... thought I wouldn't doubt some do.
IMO I assume what happens is the clause is a page of legal wording, and parts of it will say things like company must take percussion, must in good faith not be aware of any security issues and such.
I believe companies craft their own policies however the insurance clause will for sure state they must HAVE a reasonable secure policy. The insurers don't want companies paying for insurance INSTEAD of paying to secure their systems. So companies make policies of constant password changes, who can use what systems, procedures for IT... and I have heard they will make policy such as ALL devices must be running anti virus as an extension of that idea. If they put it all in writing and follow it they won't have any issues if they ever need to file a claim.
I guess the way to think abotu the cyber riders... is its like smoking for a health policy. They are going to ask if you smoke or like to drive race cars as a hobby. I think some companies just set policy to avoid issues, and the insurance companies word their policy to give themselves so wiggle room if a company is doing anything dumb like running vanilla windows XP systems or something dumb.
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With the exploits for linux that are out these days, you need some form of protection, also being able to manage users and access and such also, which while it can be done, does take a little more effort.
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Wonder if this will fix Team Fortress 2 crashing issues on Linux which are related to the AMD driver, but also having to force openGL use instead of vulkan.
I don't think anyone has seriously used AMDs open source vulkan driver in a long time.
I wasn't aware of any team fortress issues... I mean its native like the rest of the source games isn't it? The only source game I play is dota and I have never noticed any issues at all the native version runs better then it does on windows. Looking at protondb I don't see any real issues being reported by anyone on AMD cards... only issues I see reported are on Intel and NV hardware.
https://www.protondb.com/app/440
It is not at all clear that you have to run some kind of security software such as an antivirus under the circumstances. These security software packages are large and present risk through greatly increased attack surface. It is not clear which way is overall more secure. Security software companies screw up a lot, and it's all closed source you can't review.
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It is an issue since the x64 update in TF2, when you start the game it can freeze the TF2 process and thus hang your entire OS, I am on the latest mint on 6.14 and it still happens. Fixes are doing window mode and do not change any settings in game or it can freeze the entire OS. Some of the fixes are to use openGL instead of vulkan. I just install Mint and let it install what ever was needed for my AMD RX6800.
Interesting.... doing some reading;
apparently some people have found -windowed -noborder launch arguments fixed it on Mint. Not sure what mint is doing hard to say. Though the reported fix seems to be logical.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/6370
It looks like its an issue with the way the game transfers to full screen. (more an issue of muffin really) This actually makes sense, it would mean its not a driver issue in anyway. Its a compositor issue. Mint uses Cinnamon it is pretty uncommon for anyone other then Mint users to be using that DE. It has its own unique compositor (muffin) which is a fork of a older code base of Gnomes Mutter compositor. Sounds like forcing the game to start in windowed mode rather then full screen solves the issue.
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yup, thats what I have set, and good to know, didnt dig that far into it, but now that you mention it, I do not recall having this issue under Arc distro's when I use them..
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With end users being the #1 entry point for exploit, for end user systems you need layers of security for certain. Mind you most infostealers bypass Windows defender pretty easily, but other EDR's tend to do better.
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I despise Adobe, and yet I've given them more money than any other software company I personally use. I've tried going strictly Linux and Adobe is always the thorn in my side too.
I'm open to keep trying, but I have gone through many Linux options for photo and video and nothing seems to adequately replace Adobe products. I've even tried just running Windows virutalized, but always ran into problems of not being able to pass through GPUs for hardware acceleration.
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What I've done is just install CS6 and be done with it. It works pretty well with CachyOS Wine. Sometimes I use Krita for some quick dirty stuff, but for more in dept photo editing I'm using CS6. As it stands without a good photo editor on Linux then it isn't an option for professionals.
Uh. I don't exactly love Adobe, and I often take issue with their business and technical decisions regarding Lightroom, which is one of my daily driver programs. But, but, but, I can also say that about Quicken (no long part of Intuit, which is almost despise), and I use Quicken literally every day. Companies I truly despise are, in no particular order, Meta (facebook), Google ("Do No Evil," Ha. These days they have inverted that slogan), X/Twitter for being a hate-filled, hard right wing American version of Pravda in the days of the USSR, and Amazon for crushing independent book sellers and flooding the US with Chinese-made crap.
Also true for me. But I spend more than the Adobe subscription on a variety of utilities.
Good for you. But I don't have the time or patience to become a "Linux hobbyist," and I say that as someone who worked at a UNIX workstation company in the 1980s, System 3 and 4.1/4.1 bsd extensions, and then Sun Microsystems, SunOS and Solaris, even Solaris x86.
Exactly, and there is zero business case for Adobe porting any of its program to Linux. First the would do Windows on ARM CPUs, for which a case is emerging.
Yes, and GPU is becoming even more important with the advent of AI-based tools.
There are many VFX studios using Linux workstations... and keeping macs around for the artists that need Adobe. I mean that works, still there is a use case for those customers to have Adobe as an option on their workstations.
This is 4 years old. The % is higher now.
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OK guys. I'm outta here, since I don't have any dogs in Linux issues.
Didn't mean any offense. Just saying. There are artistic segments that would be happy to have Adobe products as an option on Linux.
I am not claiming its a massive market either. Even in VFX type stuff smaller studios tend to not be using Linux. Its more the larger studios were trying to secure windows, to ensure your artists aren't leaking your latest Marvel movie shots is almost impossible.
After all these years though I don't expect Adobe to change their stance either. Windows ARM seems pretty dead today though with the news that Nvidia seems to be getting back into bed with Intel for APUs.