Yo linux team, i would love some advice.

I’m pretty mad at windows, 11 keeps getting worse and worse and I pretty done with Bill’s fetishes about bing and ai. Who knows where’s cortana right now…

Anyway, I heard about this new company called Linux and I’m open to try new stuff. I’m a simple guy and just need some basic stuff:

  • graphic stuff: affinity, canva, corel, gimp etc… (no adobe anymore, please don’t ask.)
  • 3d modelling and render: blender, rhino, cinema, keyshot
  • video editing: davinci
  • some little coding in Dart/flutter (i use VS code, I don’t know if this is good or bad)
  • a working file explorer (can’t believe i have to say this)
  • NO FUCKIN ADS
  • NO MF STUPID ASS DISGUSTING ADVERTISING

The tricky part is the laptop, a zenbook duo pro (i9-10/rtx2060), with double touch screens.

I tried ubuntu several years ago but since it wasn’t ready for my use i never went into different distros and their differences. Now unfortunately, ready or not, I need to switch.

Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.

  • My Password Is 1234@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    In all honesty, you should decide between Debian and Fedora. If you’re new to this, stay away from Arch Linux, Gentoo, or Manjaro. Simplicity is key. The two systems I mentioned are known for their reliability, so you should be fine with either one.

    • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      If you are made out of matter stay away from manjaro. Other than that I agree, and would recommend debian slightly over fedora but that is just personal preference. Also I feel like opensuse deserves an honorable mention. Maybe not tumbleweed, but leap could be suitable for a new user and yast rocks.

      Edit: Also vscodium can be good alternative to vscode. It is vscode without Microsoft’s tracking, but an exact copy otherwise.

    • not_amm@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      I use Canva in the browser, but I gotta say that it works better in Microsoft Edge than in Firefox. I think it may be a Chromium thing, but I haven’t tested other browsers.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    You sound like a dick, and “Bill” is not involved anymore. That’s like yelling at Steve Jobs.

    Regardless, I just switched a dozen people in my company to KDE Neon with no issues. Full hardware support. They’re all using Thinkpad, mostly the T16

    • sab@kbin.social
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      2 months ago

      Is Linux Mint well adapted for touch screens?

      I think I would go for GNOME if I were to use Linux with a touch screen. Then again, I’m using it anyway, so I’m probably biased.

      • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I got a laptop with a touch screen for a young kid in my family, installed Fedora Workstation with its native Gnome desktop, and touch worked great without any tinkering.

        Gnomes workflow is a big departure from windows, but with its gesture navigation on a trackpad, I think it’s a highly superior way to use a laptop. My desktop gets KDE Plasma, but if I had a laptop it would use gnome

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Honestly anything shipping a MATE desktop edition would be good too. MATE is similar enough to windows that most people get it pretty quickly.

  • pelya@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Just grab yourself some Linux Mint, and try to ignore Arch and Gentoo crowd here.

    Half of the apps you mentioned have Linux version right in the system package manager. Davinci has Linux version on their website.

    CorelDraw might be a problem, WineHQ lists it’s compatibility for the latest version as garbage, so you will probably need to switch to Inkscape.

    Anyway, I heard about this new company called Linux

    Pedantic explanation about GNU/Linux is coming in 3… 2… 1…

  • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    First of all Linux isn’t a company, but the name some dude named Linus gave his code he put for free on the internet.

    Most modern Linux distros are still not run by companies, that’s why they don’t force the data collection, ads, ai etc down your throat.

    That said: Linux is made from thousands of interlocking programs, scripts, services and libraries, made mostly by some guys or gurls in their free time. So with a lot of stuff you need to fit it to your needs, as granular customization is to troublesome to have working out of the box for every different usecase there could be. So with most stuff you should not be afraid to learn the basics of terminal commands (packet manager, editor, foldermanagment)

    Some OS like Ubuntu and manjaro do a lot for you, but if you have weird double monitors, you may need to manually do some stuff.

    If you want as much as possible easy install options I would go with manjaro - then you can install everything where users made an AUR (arch user repository) package. Check if they have all programs you want, if not look for alternatives.

    If you want a more stable system but with a bit less possibilities, go for Ubuntu, debian, popOS or something like that.

    Some things may never run, for example for my music daw(ableton) with low latency and not native support on Linux or the htc vive wireless (where there isn’t a driver for the PCI card for Linux) I keep a win machine around. Day to day use is on debian on my side

    • dan00@lemm.eeOP
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      2 months ago

      No sorry man, it’s my british humor coming out. I needed to bait some linux users :) I’m one of those evil people who works in marketing. But thank you for the tips, I do appreciate it!

      • sfera@beehaw.org
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        2 months ago

        I’m one of those evil people who works in marketing.

        Yet here you are, complaining about the ads in Windows. Are you sure that you can go without them? :-D

        • dan00@lemm.eeOP
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          2 months ago

          Ahah correct! But in all seriousness, i believe ads are drastically changing right now (ai is just fuel on the flame). Good advertising is great, fun and builds community, which is the end goal in my humble opinion.

          If you force me to use/install a product without telling me why, just because “trust me bro I’m Microsoft”, you are just pathetically insecure about your product and deserve 0 users.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      I would swap out Manjaro for Endeavour.

      I started off with Manjaro, and updates kept breaking shit. Only reason it was usable for me, was that I kept timeshift going so I could recover from an unbootable state if updates borked something.

      Especially if OPs system is unusual, I wouldn’t trust Manjaro. I’ve yet to need timeshift on my Endeavour install, while setting it up to do the same things was no more difficult.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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          2 months ago

          I approve of both of those options. Personally I simply find the AUR the most convenient community driven way to install software.

  • gomp@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.

    Errrr… why would you try to trigger people, especially while asking for their help? Don’t you think it’s plain rude?

    • dan00@lemm.eeOP
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      2 months ago

      Fair enough… but :D would you say I’m triggering ppl for attention or am I training users for a dystopian ai future?

      One day when we can’t distinguish humans from bots, you will think about that rude guy on lemmy that baited you with love :)

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I’m not sure which distro would work with your laptop. I would suggest experimenting with live USB images. Maybe using something like Ventoy which enables you to try out multiple live images from one USB stick. But as far as applications go:

    • GIMP is native to Linux and should work fine. You might also want to give Krita and Inkscape a whirl. Also, massive props for ditching Adobe. I hate that company as much as it hates their customers.
    • Blender works on linux.
    • So does Davinci. Allegedly. Haven’t used it, but their website says Linux support is available.
    • I don’t code so, um, no idea. Sorry. Hopefully someone else will weigh in.
    • Good news, Linux has working file explorers!
    • No ads, at least for the most part. Ubuntu had Amazon’s search integrated into their search bar a while back, which caused quite a kerfuffle. Later, they added a toggle to turn this off, but this was years ago. Might want to check just in case.
  • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.

    So you’re a dick. Got it.

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If you want to test several Linux distributions Ventoy can be useful. You can have 10 or more different Linux distributions on one USB stick depending on the size of the stick. This will also save you time “flashing” an image iso to the stick each time because with Ventoy you’d simply copy the image iso files to the stick, quick and easy.

    https://www.ventoy.net

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
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      1 month ago

      Or try them for a while in a VM, VirtualBox may not provide the best performance out there but it’s very easy to set up. This way you don’t have to commit and install the OS over your main machine or anything like that.