As a fellow Windows user tipping ever further towards finally making the switch, this resonates on a lot of levels. Also I saw what you did with the "company called Linux" thing and thought it was funny 🙌
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The NVIDIA proprietary driver recently got decent update, but not all necessary changes might be in distros just yet. It should be pretty complete ootb experience in a month or two. My advice is to use something recent, like Fedora or Arch{,-based} for the easiest time with NVIDIA.
Affinity and Corel don’t have Linux ports (like most big commercial productive apps sadly), and running them with Wine might be possible but can bring mixed results, see https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=18332 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=5321 Canva seem to be available and they distribute it via AppImage. Gimp is native and trivial to install on most distros, or even bundled by default. If you want to try Windows software with Wine, use Bottles.
Blender is native and available in any Linux repo as it’s FOSS app. Rhino 3D looks like possible to run with Wine…
Linux version of Davinci Resolve is available, but it’s famous for being a bit of a pain to install and being slightly limited with some codecs/functionality missing.
You should be fine with coding unless you wanted something like .NET and full blown VisualStudio. VS Code is ok.
There’s wide range of file explorers on Linux, and since it’s rather good idea to stick to whatever is default for your desktop (For instance Dolphin on KDE) you can even change the default to something else if you don’t like it.
It would be actually hard to get something with embedded ads on Linux desktop. Canonical tried with their Amazon „integrations” in Ubuntu like 12 years ago, and boy did they regret…
Even .NET isn't terrible on Linux. I mostly write in C# using .net stuff myself and I've yet to have any compatibility or performance issues running on Ubuntu. I can't speak to graphical side though as I'm mostly backend or command line tools.
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Try Kubuntu as a Distro. Any KDE Plasma Distro would be good as well. -Sincerely The Linux Company
Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.
So you’re a dick. Got it.
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Isn't Google dismantling the flutter team?
It was supposed to be the react-native killer!
Doesn't mean your company didn't bet on the wrong horse. Luckily we stay far away from anything Google touches, but I have friends in other companies who weren't as lucky.
So far we've been lucky. But, we are concerned with some of our stack. We help where we can, but it's a bit of an unknown. The google graveyard basically screams to keep away from any of their tech.
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Nobara has a lot of fixes in it that are made for video editing and graphics, particularly davinci and blender. It's quite cutting edge on it's packages (despite being based on Fedora 39 it has Plasma 6 for last few weeks). but otherwise quite stable to use. All non-free package repos are enabled. Overall, it's been a low-maintenance, high productivity environment for me.
If you want to test several Linux distributions Ventoy can be useful. You can have 10 or more different Linux distributions on one USB stick depending on the size of the stick. This will also save you time "flashing" an image iso to the stick each time because with Ventoy you'd simply copy the image iso files to the stick, quick and easy.
Ventoy has changed my life. No more having to find a unused usb key to format then flash.
Just drop the ISO, boot on the key and choose whatever you want to try/install.
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