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Reasons to consider NOT switching to Linux (corn.codeberg.page)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My intention linking this is not to provoke someone or hurt feelings, moreover to show what we as community or maintainer need to fix.

Regardless how you see it, there is some truth in it, even if I personally disagree with most mentioned points ignoring that Android already runs on 1 Billion devices which is basically Linux...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You want to do any professional electronics design works and don't have half a million dollars per year for 1 license of all of Cadence's tools: You can do circuit simulation through WINE and LTSpice or hspice and you can do hobby hardware development through KiCAD, but anything beyond that is difficult. You will also not be able to use almost any chip-specific development tools. Generally you can always flash devices, but advanced features are usually not available

If you want to do any significant 3D CAD: Maybe you can get Fusion 360 working through WINE by luck or can learn to make do with FreeCAD, but anything other than that is a no-go.

If you do competitive gaming: you are mostly SoL for the time being

If you have any dependency on Adobe tools for work, previous projects you need access to, etc...

If you like to read books on a kindle but don't want to buy through Amazon: since the python3 migration of DeDRM and Calibre it is extremely difficult or impossible to get it working only on Linux using ADE on linux through WINE for the encryption key.

Plenty of reason to use linux, but above are some reasons not to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

If you like to read books on a kindle but don’t want to buy through Amazon: since the python3 migration of DeDRM and Calibre it is extremely difficult or impossible to get it working only on Linux using ADE on linux through WINE for the encryption key.

I have a Kindle and have never bought an e-book on Amazon... and never even heard of the tool you mentioned. Yet I use Linux 100% of the time and have plenty of books on my kindle with I legally bought DRM free.

IMHO the problem is DRM not Linux ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Oh fully agree, but there are a ton of phenomenal books out there that are impossible to acquire legally without DRM. Many aren't even available illegally, especially if they are in a language other than English, like try finding "De Grijze Jager" anywhere DRM free, legally or illegally hahaha. Many authors don't even know the issue with DRM and just do what their publishers say is standard.