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Using Windows and Linux
(lemmy.ml)
For context (since someone on Reddit incorrectly objected to this meme): The original Expanding Brain was sarcastic in that bigger brains represented worse options.
Interesting. I ran Mint for a while, but found that a lot of software that I wanted to use was in Windows, so switched back and have been using the virtualized Ubuntu with VSCode pointed to the file system. I haven’t had any issues with productivity and wouldn’t mind if MS went in a Linux Kernel direction like Mac did.
There are open source alternative's that run perfectly in Linux for almost everything, and for games you can run wine
@porkins out of curiosity, what software do you need access to that isn't in linux? These days I am not really missing anything.
Hope you don't mind if I but in but yeah. Anything audio related is best kept on windows. Even with native developer adoption aside you still have to deal with stability issues and dealing with ALSA as opposed to ASIO is a real frustration point. Considering how often I find myself having some critical system issue on (insert distribution of your choice) when on the clock with the client in the studio, or even worse, on a gig where there is 0 time to troubleshoot software. Not to mention the solution for these issues typically involves having to reinstall the entire OS, this would require a lot of people to spend a whole heap of time and energy reinstalling, activating, and transferring settings back for their DAW's, plugins, and hardware.
I wanted to use my DAC with different desktop versions of music services to get full lossless at the highest bitrates. I forget if it was Tidal, Amazon Music, or both that were having issues with Linux. Additionally, was looking through different video editing software and CAD tools where many were only on Windows.
@porkins regarding music streaming...idk I download flac off Usenet....
As far as video editing there are two that people use, davinci resolve, which is proprietary, and kdenlive which is FOSS.
As far as cad, your only good options are blender and freecad. Blender is mesh modeling, but I've been able to do precise mechanical stuff with a few addons. As far as freecad goes...idk I haven't used it.