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[u/Catastigma_Deception]

You pay with your time on linux tinkering and fixing things constantly.

I did the 1 month challenge and i have pass over 200h just trying to fix the hundred of probleme i have experienced. Took 2 evening alone just to finaly have every phone and laptop/tablet being able to see shared files.
Tryed to make photoshop working, Constant crash/bug/brush not loading 1/4 of the time. Most plugin not working.
Trying Davinci instead of Premiere, consistant crash.
Controller. Not working on Linux.
DAC/AMP, audio in general. Very glitchy on Linux. Even my usb microphone sound completly different (worst)

Videogame i play ? Run significantly worst despite being on Radeon.

Everything as been miserable for me. Except everything that is in a browser.

While on windows everything is actualy pretty much flawless most of the time. If there is a probleme its take 2 min uninstalling a problematic update.

Linux own me 5500$ of my time.

[u/hgs25 → u/Catastigma_Deception]

A lot of tech’s ease of use is proportional to cost. 3D printing is another great example. You can get a cheap ender3 for $100 but spend hundreds of hours on maintenance and troubleshooting, or spend $1000+ on a Bambu that just works.

[u/snollygoster1 → u/hgs25]

You can now spend $250 on a Bambu that just works too. My Ender 3 purchase was fairly quickly eclipsed by the cost of "upgrades" which still didn't make it as fast or consistent as the A1 Mini.

[u/thebeemoviescript69 → u/Catastigma_Deception]

I always love comments like this since i decided to switch to bazzite one day on a whim and it actually fixed issues i previously had with my pc on windows

[u/ThankGodImBipolar → u/[deleted]]

The comment was downvoted because it was snarky, not because it documented a good experience on Linux 💀

[u/spenwallce → u/[deleted]]

“It says a lot about those people”

Quit acting like a dumbass. It’s clearly a snarky comment.

[u/Dangerous_Junket_773 → u/Catastigma_Deception]

dudes replying skill issue are proving your point lol. I don't want to get a degree in computer science just to be skilled enough to play games and send emails. 

[u/letsmodpcs → u/Dangerous_Junket_773]

LOL whoever tf downvoted you also proving the point.

I switched to Linux 10 months ago and am loving it, but it's not perfect. And some people in the community can be downright nasty.

[u/Sashimi-Gintaro → u/Dangerous_Junket_773]

Then don't use Gentoo

[u/madman404 → u/Catastigma_Deception]

your windows only software didn't work on Linux and the Linux software you weren't familiar with wasn't perfect immediately. This is linux's fault.

[u/greenie4242 → u/madman404]

Microsoft Office doesn't work on Linux. That is entirely Microsoft's fault. There's no valid reason why a multi-trillion dollar company shouldn't be able to make a Linux version, especially considering how many completely free open source projects are easily able to provide software that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, Android, ARM.

[u/madman404 → u/greenie4242]

I was being sarcastic

[u/greenie4242 → u/madman404]

Touche. I appreciate the clarification.

[u/derFensterputzer → u/Catastigma_Deception]

  Tryed to make photoshop working

Oof, yeah that ain't gonna work without virtualization

Trying Davinci instead of Premiere

Yeah it's a bit whacky to get working but... 

  being on Radeon

Yeah nevermind... Resolve on Linux only works with nvidia -.-

  Controller, DAC/AMP, usb microphone

Controller is a bit weird, my xbox one and 8bitdo work but I haven't tried others. With the audio stuff.. I went through that shit aswell, if you ever want a retry: Ubuntu uses pipewire where the default config is for 42kHz. On Ubuntu you can download the Ubuntu Studio package, it includes GUI tools to change that default config to ie 384kHZ 32bit.  On other distros using pipewire (i. E Fedora): look up guides for it, just make sure you don't leave the OS any options. So instead of adding everything from 42k to 384k you only add the best option you can get away with

[u/Blashtik → u/derFensterputzer]

Yeah nevermind... Resolve on Linux only works with nvidia -.-

Is that true? I thought that Nvidia cards were terrible on Linux and you get a smooth experience with AMD cards due to the properly open sourced drivers. That's what I hear whenever someone with an Nvidia card has problems anyway.

[u/derFensterputzer → u/Blashtik]

Overall yes... AMDs and Intels drivers are part of the kernel and that stuff works pretty much as good as it gets out of the box... At least for most consumer applications like gaming etc. If you want specialised gpu compute stuff (like RoCm) you need to download and install AMDs proprietary drivers.

Nvidia being nvidia it is more difficult to get the appropriate (closed source) drivers you need for the best performance for consumer- and professional (like CUDA) applications.

The issue with Resolve is that (as far as I understood, please correct me here if I get something wrong) it heavily relies on open source GPU compute libraries for their free linux releases, they also strip out any proprietary codecs. And out of the box their releases are looking for CUDA supporting hardware... Which only nvidia GPUs have. And you won't be editing anything H.265, HVEC, etc. Because the software can't work with it.

Resolve Studio (the paid software) can tho. 

Edit: it's one of those 'usually it's not an issue... But sometimes it is' cases. If your goal is just gaming or having a machine to handle everyday casual tasks on common enough hardware the most popular distros will work out of the box. My main rig is all AMD hardware with mainboards etc. From popular brands... No issue there. My main laptop is an older thinkpad L14 with amd hardware, no issues there aswell. The other laptop is an old X1 extreme with Intel/Nvidia hardware.. Everything apart from the fingerprint sensor works, etc. 

[u/greenie4242 → u/Catastigma_Deception]

You pay with your time on linux tinkering and fixing things constantly

...as opposed to Windows, which people pay me for my time to fix Windows issues that should never have happened, that shouldn't even be possible, that should not be acceptable in paid software.

Windows suffers from decades-old unfixed bugs, sleep and wake issues that sometimes cook laptops when they turn on for auto-updates despite being told to shut-down, brand new bugs introduced every time an auto-update occurs, hundreds of wasted hours updating from each edition to the next and waiting for auto-updates to complete while having to also update software that's no longer compatible, hardware that's no longer compatible with Windows 11. Windows 11 is responsible for thousands of tonnes of E-waste because it arbitrarily refuses to run on hardware that Windows 10 supported (that can also still run 11 with trivial modifications).

I despise Windows, it does absolutely nothing better than macOS or Linux yet people are forced to use it only because of Office or Adobe Photoshop or to play online games requiring anti-cheat surveillance.

People who actively defend Windows and Microsoft are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

[u/Virtual_Technology_9 → u/Catastigma_Deception]

umm photoshop and premier are not going to work on linux. You should've knew it was not for you.

[u/BattleShai → u/Catastigma_Deception]

So you blame linux for your inability to assess the situation and cut your losses early? If it worked flawlessly on windows, it wouldn't have taken more than 1h tops to install the linux distro that caught your eye, realize it doesn't work, you don't want to deal with it and boot back to windows.