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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I've beeb gaming in HDR for years, that is definitely a deal breaker for me. Shocked honestly that with OLED monitors blowing up, linux still doesn't support HDR?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Steam deck is the only linux device that does AFAIK, via their in-house compositor Gamescope.

    It's on GitHub, but I have a feeling some of the HDR specfics that would be needed for an open source linux implementation could be at the ransom of some standards body, like 4K 120fps support on AMD graphics cards under Linux

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    It's maddening. Somehow valve figured out how to get it to work in steam os in gaming mode but it's still MIA in the desktop

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Does mint have trial/dual boot easy install like Ubuntu?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Yes, any distro with a live ISO will allow you to try it on a USB and dual boot if you want.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    But does it have the easy dual boot setup flow of Ubuntu? With that you tick the option in setup and it basically does everything for you, just asks about disk allocation

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    That's not a feature of Ubuntu, more so the installer itself. I'm sure many distros, especially Ubuntu-based one will ship with the exact same installer. Idk if mint uses the same installer, but it would really surprise me that the option isn't available.

    Thankfully it's pretty easy to confirm by yourself. Grab a USB key, flash the ISO and have a look at it!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Ah sweet, I'll give it a go then. Need to figure out the flavor I like by the win10 support cutoff

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Awesome! I haven't looked at mint in quite a few years, but I would recommend cinnamon as the default.

    MATE and XFCE are mostly targeted towards older hardware.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I am wondering how many people give up because their exact program isn't on there.

    I get having to use Adobe software if you are an industry professional, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about people who don't want to change because qbittorrent is not the same as utorrent. Or peazip is different than 7zip.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

    sometimes the alternatives are even ok!

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Both qbittorrent and 7zip are FOSS projects that are perfectly available on Linux. There's actually very few software packages that aren't also on Linux, but they have a strong pull. Like AutoCad, Photoshop, video editors, DAWs, etc. Is specialized niche software, not everyday software that usually stop people. Also, they are unfamiliar with a workflow to do certain things on Linux's DEs.

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

    I'm somewhat of a creator myself and I mostly use creative software that has Linux versions (will move to Linux once Win 10's support expires and/or I somehow get enough money for a new PC), and they're legit better than Adobe software for my usecase. Photoshop is nearly unusable for digital painting (it's more of a photo-editing software with some drawing capabilities), Krita is pretty good, and my only pet peewee was that some of the brush compositing modes had confusing names and were hidden deep inside the menu, but then I found "greater", which can somewhat mimic the behavior of the default CSP brushes.

    Also can someone recommend me a guitar amp modeller (preferably an open-source one), that is available on Linux, so I won't suffer from both the demo of Guitar Rig came with my Arturia Minifuse, or with trying to get one running in Wine with all their complicated copy protection schemes?

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    The biggest problem with Linux (other than the whole "most people give up the second they see a terminal" thing) is software availability, which will hopefully improve as Linux gains market share.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    2024 is indeed the year of the linux desktop

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