LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop (www.theregister.com)

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[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Some of these are packages with the distro's own tools and its own Free Mega Games Pack, but we can't tell you much about those: the links are dead, or just lead to the LastOS forum's homepage.

These "collection of dotfiles and broken scripts" style distros are the worst

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago

You get a lot of the same tools as Mint, such as Flatpak instead of Snap but with no Flatpak packages pre-installed. On top of this, it also pre-installs WINE 9, Google Chrome instead of Firefox, and quite a few smaller quality-of-life tools such as the Transmission BitTorrent client, a download manager, an image viewer, and more.

Google Chrome??? Why?

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Is transmission the one without a gui? I'll never get to that level

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Transmission is the torrent client, no?

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah there was one on a linux thread before that didn't have an interface. Craziness

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

lol!

I'm old and I've been using command lines for a long time. Especially in Linux. Heck I've used a terminal based web browser! (Links or Lynx? I can't remember the name.)

[-] waz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yes, both links and lynx are terminal based browsers. I remember using them to browse the Gentoo handbook when trying to do my first install.

Thanks for the nostalgic flashback.

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Thats a fucking incredible headline lol

[-] xnx@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago

From curiosity, we tried to install Adobe Photoshop. After a reboot, it worked, and apparently it's Photoshop CC 19 from 2018, although the Help > About box closes instantly and the Help system didn't work either, making it hard to confirm. This version is available as a free download, but requires a valid Creative Cloud license to use legally. It's a good demo of modern WINE's compatibility, though. It seems that you can run Photoshop on Linux these days.