Your attitude towards OS is like what you enjoy about car ownership: Linux: you enjoy building cars and maintaining them. Windows: you prefer to spend your time under the hood working on difficult problems. Mac: you just want to drive.
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I'm thinking about whonix+qubes... Just because it's the best... https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes/Install
The main problem that I heard is that it is power hungry for some reason
Not enough hymns from God, sadly
Something else I miss on Linux is a good alterantive to RoyalTS. RDP, SSH, VNC, etc. connectivity manager. Remmina I think is the closest but its not as good.
Well for the most part Wayland ruined my experience but I'm willing to try again, just not in near future. (was using Fedore 38 KDE for 2months).
And for the rest, I assumed that most things that work with AMD on Windows will work also on Linux since I had that experience on PoPOS with NVIDIA about 4y ago.
Mainly GPU accelerated rendering in Blender which requires the AMD proprietary drivers and does not seem to work with MESA.
KDenlive only supports the AMD x264 encoder and not HEVC and Davinci Resolve has no support for AMD encoders on Linux. They all work fine with NVIDIAs NVENC though.
I'm done with Windows myself. The only time I ever touch it is for work when I gave to deal with some of our VMs for Photoshop users
League of Legends being broken every patch (like right now). Or Linux not being the focus of the game devs most of the time. Screen sharing not working on discord. Adobe like apps not working on wine (no I won’t use GIMP. It’s easier for me to boot to windows than to learn the GIMP way)
The discord one is just the discord developers being lazy to be fair. Pretty much everything else has proper wayland screen sharing by now
Why make your app fully functional across all systems when instead you can make some custom mute-mic icons to sell for $120/year?
Just need to change electron versions iirc. I’d switch if my friends would too (said every privacy focused person about anything lol)
I need Linux for my work, so it's not really possible to switch.
I do keep a Windows machine for gaming at home though.
Right tool for the job and so on..