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[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago
[-] Squeak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As much as everyone pushes Linux, it’s not a suitable replacement in a lot of scenarios

[-] Dagamant@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

But it is a suitable replacement in a lot of scenarios. Most scenarios. The only time it isn’t is in niche specialty situations.

[-] Drummyralf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The problem is mostly that those niches count up, so that quite a lot of people fit in one of those niches.

I happen to fit in 3 niches at the same time: VR, Music and Professional design.

VR? No linux. Music production? Depending on your VSTs, No linux. Playing Music live? Depending on VSTs, No linux. Professional design? No Linux.

I currently actively trying to switch to Linux, despite its apparant shortcomings in above applications. It's quite the challenge. Wine seems to install quite some stuff, but from what I've read it's a crabshoot if stuff breaks after every update...

[-] Squeak@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not really. Adobe creative cloud is used my almost all graphic/media professionals, yet doesn’t work on Linux… that’s not very niche

[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

And fwiw, most computer users still aren’t Adobe CC users.

[-] Dagamant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That is a niche. its a large niche, but its still a niche.

[-] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

~~graphic/media professionals~~ adobe users

[-] Drummyralf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Although it's a bloated mess, it's the standard for a reason. Affinity is starting to catch up, but the complete Adobe suite has no real competition.

[-] moon@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is in far more situations that it isn't

Nothing productive mentioning the situations it can't do while ignoring the massive amount of situations it can do far better

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

What are some of these scenarios?

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Is there something like PowerToys Run for KDE? That's one of the utilities I would miss the most when switching to Linux.

[-] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, KRunner, and it's been around longer than Powertoys.

I never really used it on Windows so I don't know if it has all the same features, but there's probably some way to make whatever you need from it work.

The whole point of PowerToys was essentially to implement the features Windows was missing that the Linux DEs had already.

[-] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

PopOS's COSMIC menu is like that I think (you can search files, the web, even stuff like turning volume up and down)? But I've never tried to run it outside of PopOS.

[-] Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I use Pop_Os on my desktop, but that’s nowhere near PowerToys. Even the search is barebones when you compare it with PowerToys using the Everything search plugins.

Also PowerToys has a lot more to offer than the search: mouse shake features, keyboard remapping, a great window manager with shortcuts, files preview and much more.

I know there are some decent alternatives in MacOS, but I haven’t found a proper replacement for that on Linux.

[-] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Fair. Powertoys is really extensive. I quite like Pop (or gnome's? Not sure) tiling window manager though.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's a Pop addition, although you can easily use it on any other Gnome desktop by installing it as an extension

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

kde really has a LOT of power, most of the stuff you mentioned afiak. its not a 1 to 1 clone of powertoys obviously, so it has a lot of stuff thats not in powertoys, and is lacking some stuff thats in it,l but the kde desktop also has support for plugins, so you should be able to fill in the gaps

[-] Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

But in order to use that, I need to get replace the current Pop_Os Gnome interface, right? I cannot use that as an application, like PowerToys does, or can I?

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

ok so the thing with kde is that you can replace your pop_os gnome interface with it, but it would probably cause issues, so itd probably be simpler to just switc hto a different distribution instead. Id recommend tuxedo os

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago
[-] theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Explain what you mean by bloat please

[-] psud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is nothing you can't uninstall on Linux. Linux distros, let alone desktop environments, really can't qualify as bloat

There are even enough mainstream distros to let you choose one that meets your needs with little or nothing you need to trim

[-] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah thanks, i know. Just saying, KDE is massive.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago
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