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True. But each of them are more or less polished enough for any user.

I mean pick one.

Give me the argument that this isn’t true.

Yeah illustrator is a huge stretch there, you are right.

And as a graphic designer, I am shaking my head.

That really is never the way I looked at gimp since the beginning.

Nonesense. There is no easier to use and more functional desktop with great user experience than Linux. Been that way a long time. People are just used to poor UX and want more of it.

Edit: I would love to hear from the downvoters how windows, with its constantly changing interface, ads, poor file manager and poorly thought out workflow design is somehow better than linux. And stick with win 11 as that is the standard now.

As for Mac, talk about confusing. Where are your files? What is happening at full screen, what menu is doing what? I will say macs are great when you get used it, especially if you use keyboard shortcuts.

More downvotes for the truth. I have taken people who have barely used a computer before and tried them on Linux or windows. Windows is always a mess and does things in unsuspected ways or is missing a basic feature.

Linux works just fine, and out of the box from any current distro the environments are pretty much ready to go. That is just the truth.

Basic tools? Drawing in a photo editing tool? That doesn’t make any sense to me. Use krita and draw all you want.

Gimp works great for editing images. Krita works great for drawing on them.

I was really suprised to see downvotes for your comment. It was balanced and demonstrated nuance for the concept.

We have an example of an advertisement from 3000 BCE. This is part of the human condition of transfer of information with a hey I make a cool thing, interested in buying it?

Now as for Lemmy, I hope it doesn’t get completely bad like reddit. The worse offenders are political or ideological posts like this one.

I am still have good discussions in other areas, so here’s hoping.

I miss the old internet too.

And if you have the name of your business and what you sell on your store front? That’s advertising. Or a card with your name on it to hand out to customers or coupons. That’s advertising. Or logos on clothing or a sign that sits near the road that says SALE. That is advertising.

OP was downvoted for saying the truth, regulation is important, but businesses will fail if they have no way to catch your interest.

In fact it gets worse because small businesses will never be seen because nobody will have heard of them and everyone goes to the big store everyone already knows about.

There is balance to be had…

Been using fedora on a laptop for a year with no command line intervention.

I don’t mind the command line, but it has been uneccesary.

Almost all maintenance tasks and fixes on windows come back to the command line. So I have no idea why people keep bringing it up about Linux.

I got blocked by someone here for the same idea that I thought was balanced: it is a useful tool, it makes it easy to share how to do something.

That’s it. Use it if you want, or don’t, but it’s not a negative thing. And I too don’t advocating sitting up at night reading man pages or anything…

Why would it? It’s a photo editing tool, not a drawing tool.

sshfs also works across the internet…quick and dirty file access from anywhere in the world.

I almost said that. It was my first thought. But then the people discussing it seemed kind of focused on local networks so…

tvOS app

Ah, I have never messed with that. Of course Apple makes it hard, lol.

What is missing? I have had no issues with it.

But you can use Steamlink as a remote desktop tool too. I do it all the time with my steamdeck in desktop mode.

I know this is just an example, but it is kind of funny.

User somehow sets up SMB shares on their network. Then is confused by the client?

this meme once again shows a Linux terminal command (that only works on specific distros)

sshfs only works on certain distros? Oh you mean the apt install part.

the button in the File Manager to add the network share to your left sidebar.

I just browse to the network location I want and right click on the view in the file manager and select “add to places”. It will be there on the sidebar until I remove it. Yes it is there after a reboot.

In the old days we just used X over SSH (xforwarding) and only sent the single application over, no desktop need by running on the host (well technically client as X is backwords).

I know the user experience difference is ridiculously bad trying to remote into Linux.

It isn’t. There are lots of tools for this, including using RDP. It is really easy actually. It is a graphical front end tool on KDE.

The “bad” part is that the user must already be logged in and the client opened because that is how linux works.

Speaking of modern: I usually just use moonlight for streaming and sunshine for hosting between machines that are on the same network because it is so simple and available in Fdriod for Android devices. You can share apps or the desktop.

You CAN configure wake on lan and run a script to auto log in a user if you wanted to use it with a machine that is off, but I can agree that that is a few extra steps.

Oh so this is not a photoediting class I thought. So I launched Krita. And everyone laughed when they realized Photoshop was the wrong tool for the job.

We had icecream.

How was the gnome registry some how worse? Microsoft didn’t even have a document that could describe how theirs worked, much less an organizational structure. At least Gnomes was basically simple words and categories. And they built a settings manager for it too.

Not that I use gnome much, but still this is silly.

No they are more the rule. I have to deal with windows every day. I do all of it remotely using Linux. Because Linux just works and I don’t have time to deal with windows bullshit. Linux has been stable and reliable, particularly on my laptops where I do nothing but update or upgrade. My desktop has caused me a few issues over the years, been rolling Arch for 6 years or so, but I think that is to be expected.

Windows on the other hand, what a pain in the ass.

But I will agree that end users, in general are unlikely to use Linux over Windows in most cases. Not because Linux isnt ready, but that is what os their computer came with, that is what they are familiar with, and largely it is what they will make apologies for. I mean lets be real: most people don’t want a computer at all. I can’t blame them. My elderly mother vastly prefers her iPad over a computer no matter what the OS is on the computer.

It may work, but it also may fuck up something else. I run into that a lot with users and windows. How do they fix it or get rid of it? Say hello to our friend regedit!