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Right now Linux on Desktop offers: - The best developer experience with the most hackable toolkit - A great gaming experience that plays the vast majority of

by snide 2y ago

Right now Linux on Desktop offers: - The best developer experience with the most hackable toolkit - A great gaming experience that plays the vast majority of titles on Steam - A "dumb by default" non-cloud enabled workstation - IMHO the most well-design, does most things "vanilla" desktop environment with GNOME. The tradeoff is - You will need to learn to update your system and learn some new things. Things will seem difficult till you learn how they work. - There are gaps in third-party applications (primary, video editing is sub par). The smaller apps you pay for now, you'll end up making scripts or small pieces of software to replace. Eventually this will be freeing, but it's a learning curve and you'll initially miss some things (Alfred, Screenshot tools...etc). - Customization comes with a larger maintenance cost. - Your phone is not really connected to your PC, and syncing systems is all manual. If it's not web-based, that app you like doesn't probably doesn't work. I switched 3 or so years ago and it's been a revelation. Although I'd been using computers since the 80s I never really understood how an OS works. While you could argue I never needed to, I find myself much more digitally literate now. After a hump year, I mostly tailor the OS to what I need it to do, and it feels like an extension of me. I wrote a blog post about this more generally here. https://www.davesnider.com/posts/im-a-linux https://www.davesnider.com/posts/im-a-linux

pjmlp 2y ago
For UNIX workloads development, and by offering Windows compatibility layer, so that game developers can keep ignoring GNU/Linux, while having no issues targeting other POSIX like platforms.
adhamsalama 2y ago
> Your phone is not really connected to your PC Not exactly sure what you mean, but KDE Connect is amazing for connecting my phone (and any device that has the app, including other PCs) to my PC.
- joshspankit 2y ago
  Jumping in as I’ve enjoyed what we’ve had as well as wished for more. Does your setup: 1. Back phone things up to the PC wirelessly? Not just photos but app data, documents, drawings, etc. Note: must all be in original quality/format 2. Allow your PC to update an app itself (in a way that can be scripted)? 3. Allow copy/paste between the desktop and the phone? (Though with LocalSend being decent this is less and less relevant) 4. Transfer edit history for photos, videos, and audio? 5. Allow you to install and debug your own apps wirelessly? (ok, this one is a gimmie bc linux to android does this natively through adb) 6. Allow your phone to mount drives from your PC so that you can access and transfer files wirelessly?
  - adhamsalama 2y ago
    1. You can mount devices on each other so you can copy/backup as you wish. 2. Not sure, but you can setup scripts and run them. I only tried running scripts on my PC via my phone. 3. You can send the clipboard to another device. 4. Not sure what this means. 5. Not sure. 6. Yes.
poisonborz 2y ago
> You will need to learn to update your system > Customization comes with a larger maintenance cost Depends on what you want to achieve, in general and day to day. In a lot of cases, either of these are dealbreakers on the long term. You can say 1001 bad things about Windows, but you can safely update, and run most your apps from 20+ year ago just fine, including "customizations" (shell scripts, registry entries etc). And handle all the hardware you throw at it. On a Linux Desktop you will have 100% control, but at many orders of magnitude harder learning curve and maintenance. However bad the path is it goes down currently, Windows is still the best middle way between macos and Linux.
Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y ago
I observed some normal users and they are clueless when it comes to computers. If there is a problem, they ask it to be serviced or buy a new pc. Even things like logging into google with an already logged in account (click on your face) is not intuitive they press instead the "log in with account" button and retype the credentials. All of this to say, there might be challenges with Linux. But then the opposite it's also true, windows restarts the computer in your face without caring
pokerface_86 2y ago
does HDR work?

by snide 2y ago

pjmlp 2y ago

For UNIX workloads development, and by offering Windows compatibility layer, so that game developers can keep ignoring GNU/Linux, while having no issues targeting other POSIX like platforms.

adhamsalama 2y ago

> Your phone is not really connected to your PC Not exactly sure what you mean, but KDE Connect is amazing for connecting my phone (and any device that has the app, including other PCs) to my PC.

joshspankit 2y ago
Jumping in as I’ve enjoyed what we’ve had as well as wished for more. Does your setup: 1. Back phone things up to the PC wirelessly? Not just photos but app data, documents, drawings, etc. Note: must all be in original quality/format 2. Allow your PC to update an app itself (in a way that can be scripted)? 3. Allow copy/paste between the desktop and the phone? (Though with LocalSend being decent this is less and less relevant) 4. Transfer edit history for photos, videos, and audio? 5. Allow you to install and debug your own apps wirelessly? (ok, this one is a gimmie bc linux to android does this natively through adb) 6. Allow your phone to mount drives from your PC so that you can access and transfer files wirelessly?
- adhamsalama 2y ago
  1. You can mount devices on each other so you can copy/backup as you wish. 2. Not sure, but you can setup scripts and run them. I only tried running scripts on my PC via my phone. 3. You can send the clipboard to another device. 4. Not sure what this means. 5. Not sure. 6. Yes.

poisonborz 2y ago

> You will need to learn to update your system > Customization comes with a larger maintenance cost Depends on what you want to achieve, in general and day to day. In a lot of cases, either of these are dealbreakers on the long term. You can say 1001 bad things about Windows, but you can safely update, and run most your apps from 20+ year ago just fine, including "customizations" (shell scripts, registry entries etc). And handle all the hardware you throw at it. On a Linux Desktop you will have 100% control, but at many orders of magnitude harder learning curve and maintenance. However bad the path is it goes down currently, Windows is still the best middle way between macos and Linux.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y ago

I observed some normal users and they are clueless when it comes to computers. If there is a problem, they ask it to be serviced or buy a new pc. Even things like logging into google with an already logged in account (click on your face) is not intuitive they press instead the "log in with account" button and retype the credentials. All of this to say, there might be challenges with Linux. But then the opposite it's also true, windows restarts the computer in your face without caring

pokerface_86 2y ago

does HDR work?