Given all the game-related posts, I thought I'd post a work-related one:
In September, after beta testing the privacy nightmare that is W10, I dual-booted my work desktop and travel laptop. Since then, Mint has been my daily driver. This weekend, I deleted the Windows partition from my laptop and travel next week without the ability to fall back on Windows.
I have only booted into Windows twice since September. Once because I was on the road and needed to use PhotoShop for a minute tweak for a client. The second time was on Friday, figured I'd patch up before the trip, just in case. I don't know whether I only now noticed it but the update option no longer exists. You can't choose a time to patch, you just have to leave the computer running and wait. This is a mind-bogglingly stupid decision by Redmond. First, there's the telemetry without end. Now you can't choose a time to update? Goodbye.
Things I have learned:
- Libre Office 5 is a superb improvement over the previous release and is vitually as compatible with Office 2013 and 2016 as Office 2010. A win.
- Backups with rsync were a already godsend on servers. Now I have it native on my desktop. A big win. (Plus bash? Awesome!)
- Office 365 works the same across any OS. Chrome or Chromium does seem to work best. Gone are the days when Linux was an endless also-ran, so another win.
- Photoshop + Wine. When I need it, it works perfectly. A definite win.
- Dropbox and other cloud *aaS services just work. Win.
- Printers and scanners work as they should. A few tweaks can be needed but the manufacturers are shipping Linux drivers that pretty much just work. Gone are days of tweaking cups and hoping something prints someday. A big win.
- Lower attack surface is another win. Same is all the free, functional, and stable software.
The only thing I have yet to resolve is searching for text within .docx files. If anyone can recommend a tool that unzips the archive and permits direct searching the xml content I'll be at an all win. In a world of machines being eaten by ransomware, I wonder why organizations aren't moving in this direction?
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[–] Psylent 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Or have tried it out and found that the software they need to do their job ... doesn't work... there is also the games issue, many are now developing for linux, but the amount of AAA titles on it is still few and far between.
[–] DrBunsen 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
So what did you find to be not working? I am truely interested.
[–] Psylent ago (edited ago)
In my case it's Solidworks, after paying $14,000 for it we are not about to use an alternative in a hurry. Systems like onShape show promise but still lack features we need for day to day use like sheetmetal functions. Tried a VM but it's too clunky and often has issues / crashes, currently I keep a windows laptop just for work. (all my other PCs are fedora).
Solidworks is the main one, I can find reasonable alternatives for just about everything else, it's the one bit of software we just can't toss out.