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Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux [advice needed for a Linux workstation at home]
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jimdeane:
Did you update to 18.0x without reading about the changes to the 18.0x series?

I mean, the shift away from Unity and back to Gnome was pretty huge news.
apis:
If you don't like Linux then don't use it. Why do people have to comment about how they prefer windows whenever someone talks about another OS than windows?  :-//

(Unlike windows, it's not as if anyone is forcing you to use Linux.)
james_s:
I hadn't heard that Ubuntu was dropping Unity, that's good news, I've hated Unity right from the start to the point that it almost drove me away from Ubuntu altogether. It was only the widespread support and the fact that it's fairly easy to configure it to use Mate that kept me around. 
ebastler:

--- Quote from: Gribo on January 18, 2019, 06:49:10 pm ---I am on the same boat as Free_Electron, as long as Linux doesn't run Altium, 3DS Max and Photoshop (It runs GIMP, so bye bye Photoshop) I stick to Windows.

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Who needs application software if you can play with five different distros and three different desktops on each of them?  :P
soldar:

--- Quote from: ebastler on January 18, 2019, 09:31:10 pm --- Who needs application software if you can play with five different distros and three different desktops on each of them?  :P
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Yeah, I think sometimes some people lose sight of what consumer products are supposed to do. Grandma does not care if it is Windows or Linux or Apple or Android; she just wants to press the button and video chat with the grandkid.

These days, for better or for worse, there is much more software for Windows than for Linux.  I wish that would change but that is the way it is. I wish they made multiplatform versions so you could move to Linux easily but, no, you have to learn everything all over again. For instance, Firefox and Google Earth work well on both platforms. If more programs did this people could shift more easily. I wish Irfanview worked on Linux.

I cannot find some pretty basic software for Linux. These days I do not use videoconference that much on the computer but I would still like to have a simple program which did just that. In Windows I have VSee but it does not work on Linux so I am stuck with Windows. You would think that a simple video conference program would be a pretty basic thing but I could not get any one to work well. They all had problems of one type or another. Forget about it.

Yes, it seems the Linux crowd are so entertained with their OS that they have no need for applications.

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