• Polar@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I was asked why I can’t switch to Linux, so I replied listing the software I require Windows for, and then was called a fanboy and downvoted heavily…

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      Don’t you just love when they can’t find a Linux alternative so instead of admitting there isn’t one, they attack your needs? Like they’ll pretend you don’t need the software you need, or that it’s somehow bad, or “it’s not Linux to blame, it’s this company, and God and my neighbor Steve!!!”, or that you’re dumb for using the tools you use.

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      It appears that the other guy didn’t call you a fanboy. He implied that you might be a troll, before you’d listed that software and after you’d called him a fanboy.

      But yeah, it’ll probably be a while before there’s a Linux version of Adobe Illustrator, and the alternatives are different enough that it’d be a lot of work to switch even if it’s otherwise practicable.

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          Man, that was a wild ride. Thanks for the link.

          Yes, that’s lemmy for you. You happened to point out something in a way that showed some frustration and people started attacking you for it.

          They are either 12 or 42 and live in their mothers basement with linux as their whole identity. They don’t read thoroughly nor do they accept criticism.

          I‘ve encountered them before. Don’t worry. If this makes you feel bad, consider wording your comments differently.

          Maybe expand a bit on why and don’t answer to obvious troll questions, at least not honestly, like the implication that you‘re using pirated windows.

          A complete moron could have seen that you were just frustrated with seeing no way out of windows and getting it blindly suggested still. That is not your fault.

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      Which is dumb. We want adoption, because there’s no other way that software will be portrs to Linux. I’m all for a libre base operating system, but I REALLY want some commercial software to be officially supported under Linux.

      That Bitwig is supported under Linux is a godsend for beatmakers and producers, but I want Ableton Live on Linux :( and also Affinity Designer. Inkscape is nice, and so is Krita, but there is no serious desktop publishing apps on Linux that focuses on usability AND productivity.

      The more users there are though, the bigger the chance is…

      So don’t listen to those bastard’s. A bunch of self-defeatists. May I suggest Vanilla 2.0 when it’s finished? :) Then you can try to run some of that software using Wine Bottles…

      …which doesn’t work for Affinity Designer :(