Sick of Windows and all the other Win bullshit but I didn't use Linux in 5-6 years

Sick of Windows and all the other Win bullshit but I didn't use Linux in 5-6 years.
Only reason why I didn't left Windows are Adobe apps which I've been using for 10+ years and I simply find it hard to use Gimp or Krita or w/e there is.
A lot of time has passed, so I assume PlayOnLinux and Wine should work well nowadays and I guess I'm ready to leave Windows behind.
Which distro should I go for and which desktop environment? Pretty sure I've never touched Xfce. Something that could be riced up a bit, not weeabo shit or w/e, something easy on the eye.
Oh and can I use f.lux on Linux? If not, what can be used to achieve the same goal?
It will be used at work for web development and web designing and some photo retouching, so Vim with a local server running + Photoshop and Illustrator will be more than enough I guess.

Recommend stuff, few gentoo memes and so on.

GNOME DE seems like a good fit for you user
>Can be made to look quite good
>Easy on the eye
>Probably familiar to a windows user
>Built in Night Light feature

Linux mint cinnamon.

If you never want to look at a terminal, go for Linux Mint with either KDE or XFCE, but if you're willing to put in effort, Antergos is also worth it. KDE looks very much like Windows 7, and XFCE looks like Windows XP, but both can be riced, although XFCE ricing is easier.

>oh look more lincux spam on Sup Forums
kys yourself, faggot.

Install Ubuntu vanilla, then you can easily install the other desktop environments and try them out and switch between them at will, ie MATE, KDE, XFCE. This way you can try working with the same apps and configs, and Ubuntu is a polished and secure system.

You'd be surprised by how many of your games have native linux ports in Steam, and for photoshit you can just fire up windaids in virtualbox.

Wine is still well, wine. Running anything through wine is hit or miss, the adobe suite is still really buggy in wine unfortunately. It's a shame because apart from that and a few games, it's the only reason I have to run a dual boot of windows on my machine. You could run the adobe suite through a Windows VM I suppose.

It's a shame because I know a lot of web dev guys that love linux but are forced to use some way to interface with macOS or Windows either through dual-boot or VM to use the adobe suite. I don't understand why adobe just continues to ignore linux for whatever reason when there's clearly a market.

In terms of distros, I'd give the main ones a shot and try different environments in a VM to see which ones you like best. Personally partial to Manjaro/KDE but ubuntu, fedora, debian, mint are all equally good choices.

Terminal is fine, I did a lot of stuff with Linux servers so I'm ok with it, I'll have to learn and re-learn stuff I learned before.
I'll have to look at terminal at work for servers and stuff.

I was thinking of using Linux on my work PC for now so games don't matter that much.
I simply used PS and AI for a long time and I'm comfortable with them, so I don't want to make that transition.

>Can be made to look quite good
It's a poa to make it look good. It has very few options of ricing.

Just run them in vbox then. One advantage of using virtual is you can take a snapshot of your good setup and rollback if it gets shitty. Virtualbox also supports a native window mode where the virtual machine apps are regular windows in your desktop, if you get me.

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>what is linux
A community of developers who value individuality over real world usability and always will.

A perpetual series of forks that will never be useful to anyone who doesn't want to fuck with a command line.

A 2.something% usage share until the sun consumes all the planets in the galaxy.

stick with Windows if you can't get away from Adobe products. They work like shit on GNOO / Linox. There is some GPU passthrough fuckery but it's hard and actually pointless. I just dualboot when I need to get work with PS, AI, IN done. That being said - GIMP is perfectly fine if you don't work as a pro graphic designer and don't go near print with it's CMYK and Pantones. If I everything in industry weren't so tighed to Adobe products - I think I would actually use free tools.
As for a distro. Go with Fedora Design Suite. It has Adobe icc profiles installed out of the box plus some software for content creators. It comes with GNOME3 DE which I actually like out of the box but most people rice it with easy to install extensions.
For one-click botnet install search for software called Fedy. You can install all the codecs, nice fonts, Sublime Text, etc. from a GUI.

Sweet, thanks for letting me know!

I'm just tired of constant battling with Windows to set up environmental variables, turn shit off on it all the time and spending an hour to install something properly that isn't a game. I couldn't get cURL to work on it for like 3 days, I had a problem with Android SDK when I used Ionic and so on... So simply put, I have to re-install my OS as it is a year old and it was a prior working PC which I didn't maintain as much but I don't feel like doing painful Win installations once a year.

Yeah fuck that bullshit. I ran the same install of Ubuntu from 2007 until this year when I reinstalled it 64-bit, transferred through a few upgrades and HDDs of course. It was still running fine except for the 32-bit getting long in the tooth.

>Can't create a file in file browser

Use Figma and a random graphic software

Yeah, it's actually strange that GNOME devs have decided to not include this feature out of the box (you can actually make files in GNOME Files). It's still the only non-amateurish looking DE on Loonix though.

you can use redshift on linux, works the same and you can set whatever temp you want in the command line

hackintosh + macos is the ultimate experience.

This

Friendly GNU list for winrefugees.

Chat, Voip (skype and others): Pidgin
RSS Feeds and Youtube channel organizer and viewer: Liferea
IRC: HexChat
Backup (file synchronization): Unison
System Backup: Systemback
Batch renamer: GPRename
File search: ANGRYsearch
Duplicate files removal: dupeGuru
Drawing: Krita
Image Editing (a.k.a. "photoshoping"): GIMP
Ebook Viewer: Okular
Image viewer, organizer, basic editing and video previewer: GThumb
Music Tags and metadata: Easytag
Music Player: DeaDBeeF, or Audacious with a Winamp skin
Media Center (online radio, watch and download tv shows and movies): Kodi (XBMC)
Video Player: VLC
Video editing: Cinelerra-cv or OpenShot
Video Transcoding: Handbrake
Video compositing: Natron
Screencasting: Open Broadcaster Studio
Password manager: KeePassX
Laptop powersaving: PowerTOP and TLP
Office Suite: WPS Office, or LibreOffice
Desktop publishing (like a pro): Scribus
Document processor (academic papers): LyX
Flashcards: Anki
Graphing calculator: GraphMonkey
Counter RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury): Workrave
Typing training: Klavaro
System monitor: Conky, GKrellM or HardInfo
Manage startup services: BUM
Virtual Machine: Virtualbox
To launch photoshop and play games: WINE ( + Wine Staging), with winetricks and playonlinux
DOS emulator: DOSBox
Commodore emulator: VICE
XBox emulator: XQEMU
Multiple gaming platforms: Mednafen, Higan
Nintendo: Dolphin, Mupen64Plus, DeSmuME
Sega: Reicast, Yabause, Exodus
Playstation: PCSX
OS X: Darling
Download Manager (download videos from youtube, other sites, any file from file sharing sites, with autologin and captcha solver): JDownloader
Torrent: Transmission-gtk
Burning CD/DVD: Xfburn
File Manager: PCManFM
File manager featured in Jurassic Park: fsv (File System Visualizer)
Web Browser: IceCat. Secure by default, can have firefox addons, also fast. Disable the LibreJS addon because it can be annoying for noobs.
Accounting: GnuCash. So you can keep track of the bucks you are saving when using free software.

who are you quoting?