• shininghero@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    Unfortunately, my vr headset requires a piece of middleware that is not Linux compatible. But, by the time 10 LTSC reaches end of life, Deckard should be available for purchase.

    Also, I’ll need to re-pirate substance painter for avatar work, as GenP doesn’t do Linux either.

    • SuperIce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      What headset? Most headsets work fine now. I had some issues with an old WMR headset (HP Reverb G2), but even Windows doesn’t support WMR anymore so it’s basically dead. Went with a Quest 3 eventually and it works great with WiVRn (ALVR works as well, but it’s a bit more clunky).

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I have the strong urge to point out it’s the other way around; Adobe and Autodesk have to support Linux. You’re of course right though, with the strong lock-in effect from those big companies it’s almost impossible to switch unless done on company-level. And even then project partners will expect files to be in a specific (proprietary) format most of the time.

      It was really disheartening to see Ondsel ES fail, it was a valiant attempt at creating a business-grade Open-Source CAD solution based on FreeCAD. Unfortunately Autodesk’s monopoly extinguished any attempt at finding funding, despite existing interest by those who actually use that stuff (I assume Autodesk is fucking expensive like any monopoly software…). Education, Production, Distribution… those few big companies own and control literally every part. It would probably take both governmental effort as well as some kind of soft UI-standardisation to crack these power structures.

  • Panamalt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I side-loaded Mint for a couple hours just to goof around, and then . . . never booted Windows again, quite literally forgot it was installed three days later

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      Sounds just like my last dual boot setup, as well.

      I believe I said “I’ll just boot back to Windows next time I want to play…this game…that just launched and played perfectly under Proton…or…this other game…which also works…huh…”

  • RusAD@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Audio production/editing. You can switch to mac but not to linux at the moment. Well, you can do on linux like 80% of what you can on windows by using Wine, but certain apps and plugins are incompatible right now. The one that holds me back is Izotope RX suite, which is a de-facto standard for audio restoration/clean-up, and it’s all because of their drm (even the cracked versions have the drm merely bypassed, but it still crashes during the initialization, at least it was like that when I last tried it a couple of months ago).

    • hopelessrespawner@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      This is killing me lol. I need like 5 different tools in Linux to replace one specific piece of software in Windows. I really want to switch but the amount of effort is too much atm. So dual boot for now.

      • RusAD@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        I use Reaper, and Reaper itself works fine. It also has native support for Linux. I will try this specific cracked version of Izotope though, thanks. Hopefully I’ll have better luck with this version than with the one I tried before

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That doesn’t seem true unless you already require specific software or plugins. If you’re just getting into it and still have the ability to choose freely without losses, DAWs like Bitwig Studio, Reaper, even Ardour will get you there. There’s a wide range of fully working DACs, now with the Pipewire audio backend you don’t have to meddle with Pulseaudio and/or Jack anymore either. There’s also a wide range of plugins etc. Collected some info about those a while ago (when I thought I had time for extensive blogging, lol).

      To be fair, that’s all for audio production, not necessarily restoration(?). Perhaps you know something about that specific niche I don’t.

      • RusAD@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        You are correct, you can do a lot of stuff in Linux already, but not everything. If you’re just starting it may not be that big of a problem, but if you’re already accustomed to certain tools, switching to an alternative may be very troublesome, especially if you have paying customers for this type of stuff and risk missing the deadlines or delivering an inferior result because the alternative isn’t as good yet or the compatibility layer decides to break at the most inconvenient moment.

        Also I don’t know about DACs, but from my understanding it’s a coin toss whether the audio interfaces will work properly on linux, snd sometimes you need to record stuff. I haven’t seen any big manufacturer providing linux drivers for the interfaces, and AFAIK some pro-level interfaces only work only with the proprietary drivers. Again, not that big of a hurdle if you’re just starting, but if you already paid 1000$ for an interface and it turns out to be incompatible, it’s a bummer, to say the least

        • Rain World: Slugcat Game@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          on OSes like windows, you have to rely on premade programs to make audio, which are often limited and incomplete. but turing-complete operating systems, such as linux, have no such limitations

    • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      For audio editing, you don’t need windows, neither linux, that’s still the best on mac, but you need to be filthy rich

      • RusAD@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Well, mac is the best, but windows isn’t that far behind in this niche. And yeah, I’m not throwing away my Ryzen 7700/RTX3060 build and spending one fuckton on mac hardware just to get rid of windows, thank you

    • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Msm flash tool

      If that’s all you need. I bet you could just run it from WINE. I updated my PS5 controller using the PlayStation flash tool or whatever it’s called. I used Bottles to do all the WINE stuff. Just installed the flash tool and it worked like it was Windows. Pretty shocked if I’m being honest.

      • obnomus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I’ve to do usb passthrough to use msm tool, but I’ll try since you said it worked for u.

        • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          With WINE you wouldn’t need USB pass-through. Only if you are passing the hardware into a Virtual Machine. The pass-through just tells the Host system not handle the device. But you actually want the HOST system to handle the device. WINE is just translation, not virtualization. (or Emulation, haha)

          P.S. USB pass-through does work really well in VM’s. If WINE doesn’t work for you. You could always keep around a Windows VM for the occasion you need the msm flash tool.

              • obnomus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                3 months ago

                Yeah I know I was in edl mode and device wasn’t getting recognized even after installing all the drivers, but my phone wasn’t responding so I’ve to force shut it off.