Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Fri, 5/16/2025 10:24 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 2025-05-16 19:36, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

So, the “week” stretched on a bit longer than a week
<https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/my-week-with-linux>.
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Verdict: he could do most, but not all, of the things he wanted to do.
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Some conclusions I felt were questionable:
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* “Changing desktop managers is too much work” -- he went to all the
trouble of removing the packages for GNOME after installing KDE, when
he could have left them in place, so switching would have been just a
simple matter of logging out and logging in again.
* Preferring Chrome over Chromium -- he didn’t offer any reason why
he preferred the proprietary version, when the open-source one was in
the standard repos.
* OBS Studio: “There's a community version but no official version of
OBS for Linux.” What a load of nonsense.
* MS Office -- funny, but Microsoft lists Linux as one of the
officially supported platforms for Microsoft 365. Hasn’t he heard that
it’s not “Office” any more?
* AutoHotKey -- he is really hung up over this. Why is he so attached
to such a clunky Windows tool, that is actually more fiddly to use
than a scriptable command line?

 
I find it hilarious that he tried to run Photoshop Elements in Linux. What is the point? You can easily try Krita or GIMP to get the same functionality without the hassle. If your goal is to run Windows software, just run Windows.
 

The customer is always right.

Whatever the customer wants to do, must be the right thing for them.

The concept is "continuity". The idea is, this is the
Year Of The Linux Desktop, and we want to crush the competition
with our seamless compatibility. Just as Microsoft tried to put
a translator on the Qualcomm ARM laptops, so win32 could run
without a fuss. Apple does stuff like this too.

WINE has made great strides over the years. Things I figured would
never run, they run today. I think some distros are better configured
for this purpose than others. and it's quite possible the distros
I've been using "just don't get it". The WINE is always a mess,
and all it needs is a bit of loving care to bring out the best in it.
The user shouldn't have to play whack a mole, to get it set up.
As I understand it, there are some gamer environments where it is
ready-to-go.

The poster here is using PlayOnLinux.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-elements-discussions/photoshop-elements-15-under-linux-with-wine-welcome-screen-problem/td-p/11542591

     Oct 26, 2020

     Mint 20 Linux system using PlayOnLinux and version 5.19 (Staging) of WINE

   Paul