lightcrystal wrote: ↑February 20th, 2023, 5:19 am
I am starting to see more of us here!
We are coming!
Let's stick together. Penguin power!
I'm here too now, Penguin power !!!!
I boot my computer into any of half a dozen distros. All linux
AdhiraamBose wrote: ↑February 20th, 2023, 6:06 am
Can everything that can be done on Windows be done through Linux?
Windows is better at spying on you and causing frustration.
no wait, you mean software maybe? Oh, well, the same way some games are tied to certain platforms like PS4 or nintendo, there are a few games that are tied to linux or windows. For other stuff, software is cross-platform, like ytdl, and there is WINE which allowed me to waste my life in old Dune, plants Vs zombies and Age Of Empires. I hate and regret how much time I've spent gaming.
As for other things like drawing or things like that, linux is better because once you learn something on linux freeware software, it stays yours forever. Windows and commercial software destroys your mind along with the software from time to time. For example, you learn how to use something for your business, and one day you come to work and overnight microsoft has updated your windows without your knowledge or permission and destroyed your business. You have to spend the rest of the week trying to explain that you are out of business to your customers until such time as some computer shop can repair the computer. Thanks windows. Hasn't happened to me because I only use linux, I do know a few people who have had exactly that happen.
My knowledge of my software is as invincible as I am, which is to say, not very, because I have to die to render my knowledge useless, or at least get dementia. Whereas on Windows, these people who always say "the license is free" zomg, they're in for it when the company goes bust, they have to re-learn the whole idea on some new software. Windows shut down '95 they shut down XP, they shut down 7 8 9 so tell me what do you think is going to happen to all the investment in time and effort learning anything about Windows 10 ?
I learnt to use an old version of blender, and I keep using it and nobody can stop me. I put it on an old version of my favourite operating system and draw as I please using techniques that are quite old because I can remember them. It's free software and I can keep using it for years to come. There are no licenses. Perhaps I'll take time and make another investment in learning the newest latest version of blender, but I can put that off for years. It's up to me and how tempted I am and how many killer functions have been written to tempt me. Windows software just gets wiped out when you are not looking, or in front of your face, who cares, either way it wipes your brain and you can no more draw using the now defunct software than those businesses that relied on windows.
All the other things, like video editing and watching and browsing and writing and calculating, spreadsheets, pdfs all that is identical.