I love Linux and want it to succeed as a fully functional alternative to proprietary OSes. But a lot of ideological free software advocates are dishonest about (or fail to understand) the real limitations of Linux software support especially in the professional world. In 2022, most specialist/professional software cannot run natively on Linux, and much of it runs poorly on WINE if it runs at all. Just a few examples that entire industries rely on: - Microsoft Excel - AutoCAD - Adobe software - most DAWs, VSTs and plugins This situation is entirely the fault of Microsoft, Adobe, and other commercial providers that refuse to make Linux ports for their software, but it remains a real barrier to Linux being a usable alternative for people in just about any white-collar industry that isn't programming or IT. This is the real problem the community needs to work on, not fucking gayming.
the alternatives would have to have most features of the official software and support its file format, have a normalfag-friendly ui too there is also winapps project, but it doesn't have a nice installer, and performance and stability isn't the best
i think stripping most shit from windows 10 iso, like all uwp programs and explorer/windows updates, and writing some software that would do the same thing as winapps does but without rdp would work better
Lucas Russell
>much of it runs poorly on wine >capitalizing wine >literally any of those programs yeah, someone's never booted linux
Hunter Cruz
Gaming is more accessible to regular users. Everyone is attracted in some way to gaming. Linux gaming has improved tremendously in recent years, with Proton and shit, although I still prefer devs porting their games to Linux. Niche software are still being used only in niche industry, or by your examples of Adobe, in office. This is still less usage than that of gaming. But anyway, rather than blaming Linux and FOSS entirely for this, what can we do to have those applications on Linux?
Evan Gutierrez
run it in a vm
Jaxson Hernandez
Destroy the patent system entirely.
Lincoln Campbell
Use alternatives and if you cant handle it then fuck off.
Jayden Wilson
Nothing to do with MS, adobe etc, everything to do with you faggots wanting your super speshul esoteric release. Who the fuck has time to keep up with that shit?
Focus on a single distro, and try to reel back the clusterfuck of fragmentation that is the modern Linux landscape. Every faggot here complains about [x] breaking when [y] updates, what the fuck kind of software provider would try to support that out of the box? And what IT house is going to want to add that layer of complication to supporting a bunch of users with room temperature IQ's?
Would you want to take those support calls? Didn't think so. Sort your shit out freetards, we'd love to be able to take you seriously.
Zachary Green
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>But a lot of ideological free software advocates are dishonest about (or fail to understand) the real limitations of Linux software support especially in the professional world
That's because a lot of these people don't have real jobs, they might be programmers at the most (and programming is one of the few things you can actually do on linux)
Grayson Ross
What the fuck does that webcomic have to do with CEASING TO CREATE ADDITIONAL FLAVOURS OF LINUX SO EVERYONE ELSE CAN GET A FUCKING CLUE ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO DO WITH THE PLATFORM, you dense cunt?
You are the problem.
Brayden Baker
bump
Dominic Bennett
Use librecalc, krita, gimp, davinci resolve and the shitty linux daws since you'll probably make shitty music anyways. >autocad google sketch or blender with plugins You're not an engineer anyways
Christopher Edwards
retard
Julian Cook
keep adobe and ms trannies far away from my OS
Jaxson Phillips
Linux is fundamentally unstable on the desktop, and until you fix that shit nobody will ever make professional software for it. You know what enterprises don't want? Their entire toolchain breaking down because the OS randomly decides to break and waste 3 hours of time just to get the OS functional again. Windows and mac don't have this problem, it will never just randomly break on you like Linux will. Make a distro that is rock solid and then high end software will start appearing on it too.
Jackson Jones
I see two ways: write native alternatives, or invest in translation layer that will run Windows software. Valve has been doing the latter, given that they can't force game devs to do former, and it's had positive impact on Linux desktop imo. Some more techy normies might give some Linux distro a try due to this, especially if all they do is web browsing and games. That might slowly over time grow the % of Linux on desktop, and maybe therefore cause companies to consider it as worthy platform for native software development. That won't magically make those softwares open source, which Linux community appreciates (and it's a marvel to me that on Windows and macOS it's industry standard to not know what code you're running), but mayyybe it will also bring some more developers interested with writing FOSS alternatives. Even if closed source stuff works, doing it just for the principles. Exactly. I'd say it is a bit of a problem. With open source shit some distros that have lots of package in repos will have a maintainer making sure shit works on the distro. When some company releases closed source builds of their software and flatly states that "yeah this will work on Ubuntu 18.04, haven't tested anything else, bye" (cough Intel) and you're already in 2022 running Ubuntu 22.04 and 5 year old build of Quartus won't start because it expects 6 years old shared libraries, well, I'm sure a Linux newbie would be very confused. That's why I sometimes hear about people reeing online that they had to download random .debs, .sos, or other scary shit while on Windows it "just worked", therefore Linux sux. I feel appimage would be good choice for such closes source applications - build it, pack it with libraries and ship. Open source stuff can be rebuilt into repos, to match latest libraries. Having that said, picking a distro and running software from repos only has led to good experiences for me. Only adding random PPAs sounds like disaster.
Jayden Johnson
>keep industry leading software away from my niche OS And you wonder why nobody takes you serious
