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Unfortunately still loads of hurdles for most people.

AAA Games with anti-cheat that don't support Linux.

Video editing (DaVinci Resolve exists but is a pain to get up and running on many distros, KDenLive/OpenShot don't really cut it for most)

Adobe Suite (Photoshop/Lightroom specifically, and Premiere for Video Editing) - would like to see Affinity support Linux but hasn't happened so far. GIMP and DarkTable aren't really substitutions unless you pour a lot of time into them.

Tried moving to Linux on my laptop this past month, made it a month before a reinstall of Windows 11. Had issues with WiFi chip (managed to fix but had to edit config files deep in the system, not ideal), Fedora with LUKS encryption after a kernel update the keyboard wouldn't work to input the encryption key, no Windows Hello-like support (face ID). Had the most success with EndeavourOS but running Arch is a chore for most.

It's getting there, best it's ever been, but there's still hurdles.

> AAA Games with anti-cheat that don't support Linux.

I really don't understand people that want to play games so badly that they are willing to install a literal rootkit on their devices. I can understand if you're a pro gamer but it feels stupid to do it otherwise.

Most of the time they're not really informed that they are. I know Valorant does (Riot Games), one I've avoided in the past because of it.

But a lot of the time it's peer-pressure for wanting to play with friends who couldn't care less.

Riot Vanguard is a popular rootkit.

According to my friends, Arc Raders works well on linux. So it's very much, just a small selection of AAA games, so they can run anti-cheat, that probably doesn't even work. Can you name a triple a you want to play, that proton says is incompatible?

Gimp isn't a solution, sure but it works for what I need. Darktable does way more than I've ever wanted, so I can forgive it for the one time it crashed. Inkscape and blender both exceed my needs as well.

And Adobe is so user hostile, that I feel I need to call you a mean name to prove how I feel.... dummy!

Yes, I already feel bad, and I'm sorry. But trolling aside, listing applications that treat users like shit, aren't reasons to stay on the platform that also treats you like shit.

I get it, sometimes, being treated like shit is worth it because it's easier now that you're used to being disrespected. But an aversion to the effort it'd take for you to climb the learning curve of something different, isn't valid reason to help the disrespectful trash companies making the world worse, recruit more people for them to treat like trash.

Just because you use it, doesn't make it worth recommending.

I don't really PC game anymore, use my Xbox or a few older games my laptop's iGPU can handle, not at the moment anyway. Battlefield 6 is a big one recently that if I had a gaming PC set-up I'd probably want to play.

I know Adobe are... c-words, but their software is industry standard for a reason.

> Battlefield 6 is a big one recently that if I had a gaming PC set-up I'd probably want to play.

We definitely play very different games, I wouldn't touch it if you paid me. So I'm sure we both have a bit of sample bias in our expected rates of linux compatibility. Especially since EA is another company like Adobe. Also, the internet seems to think they have a cheating problem. I wonder how bad it really is, and if it's worth the cost of the anti-cheat.

They're industry standard because they were first. Not necessarily because they were better. They do have a feature set that's near impossible to beat, not even I can pretend like they don't. I'm just saying, respect and fairness is more important to me, than content aware fill ever will be.

Also, doesn't the Adobe suite work on Linux?

I think older versions do, like CS6 through WINE.

Photoshop CC 2024 apparently works somewhat, but no GPU support and the removal tool doesn't work apparently.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

Basically, no.

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