What keep you away from using Linux?

What keep you away from using Linux?

For me is:
>Vidya
>MS Office
>Foobar2000

>Vidya
ok
>MS Office
you're retarded
>Foobar2000
botnet 2000
also retarded

The fact that Win7 already works perfectly.

Forza horizon 3

tbf MS office is still insanely useful for the excel macros

Only the fact that Windows 8.1 is already installed on my computer, and that it is still being supported with CVE patches.

That said, this is my last Windows install.

Final Cut X

wait, OSX is BSD its ok

The fact that I hate every fucking DE I've tried and I just don't care for window managers.

>gnome
Systemd also gnome
>xfce
Really poor composting
>cinnamon
When you move windows with two monitors plugged in, the windows don't move fluidly. And this is a deal breaker on a great DE
>Mate
Weird ass dual monitor support. Firefox locks itself into a full screen and hide the task bar on my second monitor
>KDE
Huge, also I find that animations take too long and lag everything.
Weird Firefox glitch where if you hide the title bar, set the task bar to auto hide, and full screen it (only works with h bar on top) you can't move tabs to that window anymore

Its fucking hell. I can find a solution to the vidya problem or the other problems but this is too silly. I'll stick to using it as a primary for my laptop honestly

Nothing. I cut the bullshit about the overhyped MS Office (for the vast majority of people LO is a more than adequate replacement) and never looked back. Now I have Windows 10 in a virtual box with no internet connection for the rare occasion that I use Visual Studio. Never been comfier. My computer is MY computer again.

my sound card doesn't werk

I recently purchased a laptop and it has W10 pre-installed, if I don't have a tight timetable right now I would seriously just learn everything about Linux and wipe my computer clean of this piece of shit OS.

I heard rumors about W10 but I didn't knew it was that bad.

I tried Ubuntu for a while. It was actually really slow. I guess I didn't have the right drivers or something? I tried. I really did.

>vidya
I only really play CSGO, which works amazing on Linux
>MS Office
LaTeX > Word and Powerpoint
LibreOffice Calc is good enough for me as a replacement for Excel, although I will admit Excel is king. It doesn't justify the use of Windows or macOS in my use case though.
>Foobar2000
cmus or mpd+ncmpcpp is superior m8
DeadBeeF is also pretty good, maybe not as good as foobar but good enough to make it not justifiable to use Windows, at least in my use case
Clementine is also decent if that is your thing

Nothing. Been using it for a year and I love it.

>no arguments

One of the reasons is because I couldn't get my 3 monitors to run off both Intel IGP and my graphics card at the same time. AMD cards run hot at idle with two non-identical monitors attached, for Nvidia its three monitors. The workaround is to attach two monitors to the iGPU and one monitor to the graphics card. But my attempts has caused Linux to not boot with a screen.
If someone succeeded I'd like to know how. This totally works in Windows.

nothing. this is posted from a GNU/Linux device.

I have no desire to delve into something new, nor the desire to create another machine, be it virtual or physical. I just don't care enough.

wannacry. I first need my data back before I can move.

> vidya
K.
> ms office
please tell me you are not using 2013 or 2016 like an idiot and you are using the good versions like 2007 and 2003
> foobar2000
what is so special about it?

2010 also runs flawlessly on wine.

>vidya

Literally it. I hate Windows and wish I could switch in a convenient way.

This

Spergs

Mostly vidya but also general software compatibility. If a program has a linux version it's often an afterthought and not as good. Last time I checked the adobe master collection didn't work either which is a real annoyance.

Everything besides software compatibility is so much better than windows though

decent selection on steam mostly when it comes to indieshits. Though if you're into games enough you're gonna want to dual boot or passthrough

Honestly nothing major, I just like knowing everything will work right on any random website or with any random hardware. Almost everything is designed for Windows first, then iPhones, then OSX, then android phones, then maybe sometimes linux.
>inb4 android is linux
>inb4 ganoo plus linux
Don't.

>Vidya
Wine and time
>MS Office
Wine and Libreoffice
>Foobar2000
Deadbeef

I'm perfectly content with OS X

Have you tried LXDE?

terrible font rendering

you've probably heard this before, but try setting up compton with xfce

Visual Studio

>abloo bloo emacs and Vim

I used to use Vim (and I still use VsVim) but I don't want to install 200 plugins to have 1/10th the functionality of Visual Studio.

LXDE is too barebones for my needs. I haven't used it in a long time bt it doesn't look like much has changed

I'm particularly interested in LXqt but it still has some work to go

Yeah, for now. I give it another year or two before MS drops support and it becomes the new XP.

Is its macro system any more powerful than the one in LibreOffice? Or is it just a matter of having a lot of legacy code that would need to be written?

You're probably not going to get it back. If the hackers have your money and your data, the optimal thing for them to do is demand MORE money and say "we'll give your data back this time, for real, we promise!!". Keeping their promise would be good for building a positive reputation, but with everyone rushing to update their future opportunities seem limited anyway.

Besides, if there's anything you can't afford to lose, you should really be keeping an offline backup anyways.

whats the point of linux exactly

A E S T H E T I C S

productivity.

Yeah, but can it play Crysis?

Perfectly functioning web browsers are abundant on Linux. Also pretty much all modern hardware I have encountered works with Linux.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

What keep you away from using Windows?

Zbrush, few other programs,games would be nice as well.
I wish someone would set up some sort of agreed-upon Virtualization hardware setups, so we could get type 1 hyper-visors with GPU pass-threw in some sort of stable predictable form.

>Videogames
>Adobe Suite
>Any worthwhile DAW/music software
There's just not much Linux has to offer for creatives.

@60525084
>LOOK MOM I POSTED IT AGAIN XDDD

Work Software like Keil and VS2015
3D modelling like 3Dsmax

>vidya
no argument only thing I understand

>MS Office
?? why wich part?
>word
can be replace with a texteditor or something else depending on what you wanna do with it
>excel
can be replaced with gnumeric or something like that
>powerpoint
revealjs
>one-note
what even is this
>outlook
do people use stuff like this anymore?
>other stuff
never even talked about

>foobar2000
I've ran it through wine when I still used it
kinda worked but has been a while since I tested this
there are plenty of less nicer replacements if you're looking for gui alternatives
I've just went to tui alternatives wich work fine for me

I like to play a game now and again, but as im getting older this gets less and less common. Im leaning more and more towards Linux nowadays, especially since all the retarded shit Microsoft has been doing, like the anti-piracy shit that has come out recently.

>she uses a single pc and a single os
limited plebeian

>muh vidya
>muh kekoffice
>muh shitbar

one less idiot using gnu/linux, thank god.

Not him, but fuck you if you think MS Office can just be replaced with other programs that offer similar functions. Good luck if you ever have to collaborate with anyone else on a project, and god help you if you have to submit it to someone else for school/work. Office is a necessity because it's the industry standard. That other shit you listed is only worthwhile if literally no one else will ever look at the things you make using it.

I don't know, maybe
nothing

>fuck you
thanks man, I am just trying to help him find replacables. he wasnt more specific about his needs for office so I was just giving him what I knew.

wich part of MS Office is forced to you?
why even? most programs can export and read those "standards" without being that program to make that standard


besides that my opinions about those things you said.
>office is a standard
I dont work with people who force to use nonfree software. but luckily the places I work for dont force me to this shit

I have loonix on my laptop and winshit on my desktop but my desktop is fucked and won't even post, can't figure out why.

Loonix is okay, thing's don't really break but sometimes my shit will just crash out or hang. I program more but I miss vidya games.

I work in group projects, Libre office opens and saves to .docx

Nothing, I'm not gay and I don't inject weed.

>>Vidya
get a ps4

>>MS Office
what is office 360?

>>Foobar2000
WTF??

Not well, in my experience. It always manages to fuck up the formatting.

>foobar2000
>botnet
faggot.

Also you can make foobar2000 work in wine easily, and you can even write a wrapper so you can open the files from whatever file manager you're using.

thanks for answering stupid bitch ass

>Also you can make foobar2000 work in wine easily
>install it
>start it
>UI all messed up
>easy

Nothing. I use it along with Windows, think about migrating a laptop to Linux, so the only WC is the desktop one, for games of course.

Nothing. I've switched completely earlier this year.

MS Office is annoying anyway. LibreOffice does everything MS Office does (that I would need), and LaTeX is better for most of my purposes anyway.

CMUS keeps track of my music library and looks way better than foobar since it runs in a terminal. It's also probably more lightweight.

Games? Well, yeah, I lose some. But honestly, it's not as bad as it used to be. Literally half of my Steam library runs on Linux. I can live without a few AAA titles everybody rages about, honestly. I still get to play L4D2 with friends, and all my favorite "indie" titles. And sometimes even stuff like Shadow of Mordor. S'good.

Now, consider that I update my system when I want to and don't have to suffer Microsoft doing random stuff in the background, re-enabling telemetry with every other update, restarting my PC when I don't want it to, forcing me to basically hack my system to remove apps and features I don't need or want...

Also, I get to choose the desktop environment I like. After making myself use a tiling window manager for three months, I honestly can't use a compositing one like the Windows one anymore. It's just too awkward and unproductive.

Linux is better, user. There are tradeoffs, but ultimately the freedom and control is worth it. What prevents you from switching is probably that it's outside of your current comfort zone, outside of what you've settled into. Not that Windows is genuinely better. Take the plunge properly for a couple of months and see if you still want to go back then.

chinese porn games and drivers

>yankee go home
damn racist

My ISP uses l2tp to connect to the internet, and I have no idea how to configure it on linux.

Linux was barely usable bugridden trash up to about 2012. Since then it has improved a lot.

>Games
>Poor drivers for my soundcard (I blame creative)

I can live with dual booting to play those games that don't work on Linux, but I couldn't get my mic to work

Stability.
MacOS updates aren't a gamble like they are on most of the useful Linux distros.

Photoshop.

Vidya keeps me on xp. Wine has gotten better but its still unnecessary big amount of tweaking to make some work if they ll work at all. I used to game on slackware best shit but all it takes is one game to make me switch. Cant accept not being able to run my stuff and dual boot made linux partition gather dust

hackintosh.

it has everything linux has + more

Nothing. I using parabola GNU/linux-libre right now.

Its shit

me too desu. My only concern is trying to get onto my uni's wifi.

>VPN Client, the Linux version has DNS leaks no matter what I do, also the Network Lock is comfy
>AIMP
>Being a good VM host

I don't care about Skype ans Vidya anymore, so Linux is slowly becoming an alternative

NetworkManager > open terminal >nmtui
ez as 3.14

>A good DAW and VSTs
>Other audio software like amp modelers
>Games

>General superiority of basically most other unices and likes
>Photoshop
>Adobe software
>More or less uniform UI that's not shit
>Final cut pro

Vidyas

you probably have to set specific drivers for each monitor in xorg.conf.d. I guess windows does it automatically

The fact that you have so many options and software alternatives on Linux, yet none of them are sophisticated enough for hardcore users. Except for programming. All the music players are a joke, none comes close to MusicBee. The last time I installed a distro there was no working free Google Drive client, like what the fuck. I remember when I tried out Mint and the fucking middle mouse button didn't work, because it wasn't supported by the OS, LIKE WHAT FUCK. Almost everything is a fucking downgrade and fucking ugly to boot.

Last time I installed Linux (Mint to be more precise) for fun at PC at work.

When I realized that I only use it for ricing and browsing net and switch to Windows 7 everytime I need to do ACTUAL work, when every software I neede either didnt work in Wine properly, I decided to abandon Linux completely.

If I need to sit down, read manuals and net to find out how to fix shit that works out-of-the-box in Windows, whats the reason to use Linux anyway?

i use Renoise which is pretty great if you like trackers. Tracktion also supports Linux i think

Another user here.

What do you use for mixing and mastering? I'm mostly curious about basic effects. You know, EQs, filters, gates, compressors, limiters, reverbs, delays, harmonic exciters, etc etc.

Is there some comprehensive, reliable list of the best tools the Linux world has to offer? You know, an up-to-date one?

I know of one digital recording studio that uses 100% Linux and achieves good results, so I'm sure getting professional quality IS possible.

Videogames. That's literally the only reason. It's been keeping me from upgrading my PC too because I don't want to be locked into BOTNET10. PCI passthrough is too much of a hassle.

i am not a professional, so i use renoise for everything
i comes with most important effects and has decent mixing capabilities (pic related)
the only downsides i see is the tracker interface, which you have to like, and the unintuitive way that you include longer recordings, like singing

Just dual boot and keep WIndows on your ssd. It takes 10sec to reboot from your linux OS and launch your games.

You have discord, steam and other socializing applications available on linux through the AUR (at least on arch) so it's not even an headache to install those compared to a few years back.

and deadbeef is better than foobar

I mainly record live instruments and don't use trackers often. I use REAPER myself, and a Linux version is currently being developed, but most of the VSTs I use only work on Windows.

I genuinely prefer the windows experience and I've used several different distros for months.

It's much more difficult to be a poorfag on GNU/Linux if you liek vijeo gaymes. Windows releases will usually be cracked and uploaded, but even gaymes with GNU/Linux ports are rarely available for """unauthorized copying"""

Sup Forums pls go

Fair point. I'm kind of a poorfag too. What I do is hunt down humble bundle deals and occasionally use G2A. Can get some good stuff without spending much.

OP axed what is keeping people away. Muh bideogaymes is a valid answer.

No it isn't.

>Muh brogrumming
/prog/ pls go

Except it is. You're working under the assumption they're talking about the availability of games on Linux. However it could also be they don't want to have to migrate everything over. Which I know is my case. Which was why buying a separate drive for linux worked for me

If you couldn't browser Sup Forums or watch your shitty anime you wouldn't want to use linux either. Different people, different hobbies.

Video games
Adobe software
MS Office
nvidia drivers are superior on windows

Do you prefer it for familiarity or just the hands off approach to management?