Tried to switch years ago.
It's actually pretty impressive how usable Linux is, but so much of it is unintuitive to someone who's used Windows for literally their entire life. I still have no idea how to find the directory where a program's executable is, and yeah I know there's no .exe but you get what I mean.
Downloading programs is also a huge fuckin thing. Either you use something like the Ubuntu software center thing and get outdated versions of software, or you find some fuck's SourceForge or GitHub page and have to compile the fuckin thing yourself. Or you could copy and paste a single command, easy enough, if the fucker provides it, and good luck having a single salty clue what the fuck any of the syntax on that shit means.
And god forbid you actually talk about these difficulties online. Inevitably some dude's gonna try some weak-ass
>huhuhuh he couldn't paste commands, brainlet you barely even have to use the terminal stupid winigger
bait because people who have years of experience with Linux or other Unix-type shit think they're cool for being in their secret club.
And video games and the Adobe suite didn't work, and the latter hardly worked in WINE so don't give me shit about that. And no, GIMP or Inkscape are not replacements for their Adobe equivalents, and there's no good video editor on Linux save for like Davinci Resolve, and even that isn't as good as Premiere or Vegas.
Speaking of, OSS is just worse than their closed source commercial equivalents. It's not surprising or anything, it just is. I personally don't give a care about 'muh free as in freedom' commie 'i should be allowed to modify software I purchased any way I like and freely share it, man' bullshit when it means that the actual software on offer is immature and generally terrible.
I know Steam released some new WINE alternative but wake me up when Linux GPU drivers aren't a nightmare and when that WINE alternative is as good as using Windows. And when Adobe CC works on it flawlessly.
Tried to switch years ago
>unintuitive to someone who's used Windows
KDE plasma is the solution.
You can run rolling release if you want to use the very latest. Ubuntu's rolling is currently 18.10
Adobe put out a statement asking the community about a linux port to which the answer was 10x the votes of any other posted issue.
They're 'looking into it' whatever that means for them. Currently wine is your best offering, you will need to get down a dirty with dependencies to make it operate like it should but it's not hopeless these days.
The drivers are actually fine and it's a myth that holds over from the FireGL days. AMD has drivers built right into the kernel and OS, you don't even need to install anything at all and the open source AMD are the best you can get for any purpose and actually currently beat the proprietary ones.
Nvidia you just open the driver manager and install the nvidia proprietary drivers.
The drivers are 1:1 with windows. Nvidia shares the same code base and AMD is just a chad that rewrote pure open source ones.
The problem is DX doesn't exist but DXVK translates DX to vulkan at about 90% efficiency.
>have no idea how to find the directory where a program's executable
You don't need to know. All software is executable in the terminal and you can easily make shortcuts to the executables, or any command or file you want.
> I know there's no .exe but you get what I mean.
There is.
>Downloading programs is also a huge fuckin thing.
Download an Appimage, right click > mark as executable. Double click. That's all.
You can use snaps or flatpaks if you want faster updates, or just use a rolling release distro. You don't HAVE TO use Ubuntu/Debian/mint.
>video games
Work fine. If you need windows exclusives then there's only a few that Proton doesn't support.
>Adobe
Irrelevant unless you're a hobbyist, and if you are it's not difficult to learn a different ecosystem.
>Davinci Resolve, and even that isn't as good as Premiere or Vegas.
This is completely and utterly false.
>OSS is just worse than their closed source commercial equivalents.
>what is web browsers, video players, obs, desktop environments, linux kernel, android, torrent clients, music players, compilers, archivers/compression tools, communication tools, freesync
All completely beyond proprietary alternatives or at the very worst equal to them.
>Downloading programs is also a huge fuckin thing. Either you use something like the Ubuntu software center thing and get outdated versions of software, or you find some fuck's SourceForge or GitHub page and have to compile the fuckin thing yourself. Or you could copy and paste a single command, easy enough, if the fucker provides it, and good luck having a single salty clue what the fuck any of the syntax on that shit means.
use arch or a babby's first arch derivative like manjaro and use the AUR you goofball
Linux is not windows. Why do you assume that these things should be the same in both operating systems? Instead of seeing windows as some default method of doing things why not try to see them as simply being different. Why are you posting stuff, your struggle with Linux is your struggle. Dont blame others because you are finding it too m much of a struggle. If you dont like linux, fine, dont use it. Nobody is forcing you to. Do it because you enjoy it, but if you dont enjoy it dont use it.
>you find some fuck's SourceForge or GitHub page and have to compile the fuckin thing yourself
This has been a known issue for a long time. There are elitists who like to dodge the issue and insist that compiling programs is easy, and a lot of the time it is, but when it fails it's a huge fucking pain especially if you don't know anything about compiling. In response to this downloadable one-click installers with no external dependencies are slowly becoming a thing, especially on mainstream distros (ubuntu, fedora, etc.).
>people who have years of experience with Linux or other Unix-type shit think they're cool for being in their secret club
Projects like Ubuntu set out to make linux accessible to people who don't want to deal with that shit. The "seekrut klub" herd mentality is why distros like ubuntu get so much hate here.
>Adobe suite didn't work
This is a problem with no real solution
>video games
Check steam, there's a decent collection available
>Tried to switch years ago.
It's come a long way even in recent years, but based on your post I'd probably steer unless Adobe has a change of heart.
The exotic "desktop" nich OS Windows doesn't even have a solid CLI package manager, unlike industry standard Linux. And where are the nix and guix packages, snaps, flatpacks? Where are the mature tiling WMs.
It is impossibly hard to operate, totally obvious why Windows is a dying niche OS.
>I still have no idea how to find the directory where a program's executable is
>Downloading programs is also a huge fuckin thing. Either you use something like the Ubuntu software center thing and get outdated versions of software, or you find some fuck's SourceForge or GitHub page and have to compile the fuckin thing yourself.
>And god forbid you actually talk about these difficulties online. Inevitably some dude's gonna try some weak-ass
>GIMP or Inkscape are not replacements for their Adobe equivalents
>video games and the Adobe suite didn't work
>OSS is just worse than their closed source commercial equivalents. It's not surprising or anything, it just is.
100% agree
t. run windows/debian dualboot desktop, debian (windows vm) laptop
Linux is fun. It's like I actually control my computer. But it suffers enormously from quality of life issues and a community blind, deaf, and dumb to the massive problems it has with unintuitive interfaces and filesystems. Seriously when the fuck is gobolinux going to become the standard? Linux's filestructure is fucking retarded.
motoko for attention grabbing image
Using adobeshit never had any real solutions, only abstaining works. If you used adobetrash flash, you always had bad performance and security issues. LR always was multiple times slower than the competition on fast machines, (premiere too the last time I checked it a decade ago, but it must have sucked anyhow). And so on. And they now doubled their profits with subscription only software on top.
>I still have no idea how to find the directory where a program's executable is
>100% agree
Fucking "which" or use your package manager to query its managed files. And other methods
You'd know this instantly if you had cared, it's described all over the internet.
> Downloading programs is also a huge fuckin thing.
> 100% agree
Learn to use package managers (and the other methods if you need to).
Although maybe you both are honestly better off on unrooted Android.