GIMPs biggest upgrade in like a decade should be coming out this year, you’ll have to check it out and see if it meets your needs when it does.

Not open source apps, glad I’ve pivoted to almost entirely open source software. SaaS is cancer.

“incoming cosmic rays” I use cosmic DE btw

Ya I’ve had this issue for months now, the video will freeze when the original 10 seconds of buffer is used, and it’ll play fine if I skip another 10 seconds but just buffer indefinitely otherwise.

Right, I’m not a creative professional but the occasions I need tools adobe provides there are plenty of open source alternatives I use instead.

Sadly most people won’t care about what adobe is doing, but I can only hope they continue to shoot themselves in the foot. I yearn for the day when they aren’t the dominant player in the space, maybe in 15 years.

Blender does fucking everything lol, insane how much is packed into that amazing piece of FOSS

Blender is low key the best video editor on Linux for future reference

I mean he’s tech illiterate when it comes to anything semi complicated but with the way he uses his pc and the software he uses it would just not be possible for him to switch at all, would be unable to do 70% of the stuff he wants to do.

Linux is only good for the truly tech illiterate/pretty noice users in my opinion. After that you hit a point where they are literate just enough that they would need to solve problems on linux they wouldn’t have to on windows and their inability to solve problems on Linux make their experience bad.

One level above that Linux is the better option again though.

But the same can be said with windows. My life long windows user friend occasionally (a few times a year) reaches out about some significant issues they are experiencing with windows on their modern desktop.

I truly wouldn’t recommend Linux for a fairly tech illiterate person like him, but really Linux is better in every category that matters to me.

Smart Nvidia users are ex Nvidia users

It’s actually easier to keep your graphics drivers updated on Linux vs windows, at least with AMD cards. All I have to do is type “sudo dnf upgrade” or if you’re lazy click the “update” button and my system and GPU drivers are up to date.

Also in regards to games, basically everything on steam works flawlessly and that will satisfy the majority of desktop gamers

I use Fedora (btw) and I always want to recommend Linux, although most people I interact with irl are too tech illiterate so I don’t actually ever end up recommending it. :'(

I rate A+ now, very good.

You make an excel to track your operating system of choice for the year but don’t include the distro?!? For shame.

Truly the only right answer

Yes lemmy is worse in some ways, and that’s why I spend less time using it than I used to compared to reddit. Honestly I’m happy about that though.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ At least there is a lot less brain dead shit all over the front page without a bunch of normal people up in this bitch

Boo. Fedora! fedora! fedora!

Home assistant isn’t only for automations! I just use it as the smart hub for my house in general. I control all my lights and other smart home devices through the home assistant dashboard, it’s just like having one centralized app instead of many individual apps for every smart home device.

I use the esphome intergration to make my own diy smart home devices, and so much more.

Really if you have any interest in a “smart home” or using any smart home products on a reoccurring bases I’d say home assistant is worth getting into.