atomkarinca @ atomkarinca @lemmygrad.ml

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the frustration is awfully familiar, i must say.

the thing about gimp and krita is: gimp is an image manipulation software and krita is a drawing software, and as far as i can see from my so's work, photoshop is a somewhat mixture of those two. from the jump, we're not comparing apples to apples, unfortunately.

but you already answered your own question, i think.

see, foss programs aren't there to be a drop-in replacment for their closed sourced alternatives. they emerge from a need from the community. what is more, usually you will have multiple programs encompassing a single workflow of their closed sourced counterparts; meaning they are modular.

so even if there was some other program apart from these, it would have a learning curve, unless adobe open sources photoshop. so there is a viable alternative (which i know from experience) but there is a learning curve, albeit a steep one for someone coming from photoshop.

you shouldn't limit yourself, but it would immensely improve your understanding of the software if you try to recreate simple pieces of your workflow using gimp, once in a while.

yeah, with wi-fi. i didn't have any issues using wifi. like i said earlier, some applications don't have freebsd versions and manually compiling and keeping them update is a lot of hassle. other than that highly reliable system.

been using it for almost a year now.

it's been 18 years full time linux/bsd for me and it went knoppix -> ubuntu -> fedora -> arch linux -> gentoo -> freebsd -> void

arch linux in 2008 was really good, and lasted for a couple of years. gentoo was a chore, because it's fully source based. freebsd is rock solid, amazing amazing system, i would be still using it if it weren't for aec applications and games. still using it on my homeserver.

void is blazing fast, highly reliable rolling release package system, amazingly simple init system. i have a 3060ti and it's working surprisingly good on wayland. it's just hassle-free for me, i love it.

i am intrigued, can you give an example of a vulnerability as a result of no microcode updates?

I might sound like an old fart but here's my 2 cents.

I was exactly in the same situation in 2005. I was heavily invested in commercial products but I wanted to switch to an all open source workflow. My advice would be to start small. First dual boot with windows. Get your DAW working at a basic level. Then get your hardware setup the way you are fully comfortable. Then try to get your visual instruments to work.

Keep in mind that it will be a somewhat different workflow. Linux is highly modular. You can definitely achieve the same results but sometimes with more tools. Jack is an amazing sound system which is now seamlessly integrated into the system with Pipewire. It makes routing your audio stupidly simple and opens up a whole different universe of possibilities.

All this is coming from someone that's using an all open source approach for almost 20 years now.

And if it does't work, it doesn't. No need to swim against the current.

and as if like there will be one monarch to rule them all! all by himself, waiting by the dock, preparing for a duel.

just because we don't officially call it monarchy, people think that it's a whole new system. every critique you have against monarchy is valid for the billionaires and vice versa.

jeff bezos is a monarch. he has an empire with people doing literal slave-work and practically untouchable by the judicial system. if you are not willing to overthrow him now, you won't be willing to overthrow a "literal" monarch. same goes for every billionaire.

as there are middlemen protecting the billionaires now -like mass media, military industrial complex, heavily armed local police, union busters, corrupt judicial system etc.- there will be middlemen protecting the monarch then.

you think you would be willing to overthrow the monarch because it's not real, a fantasy. but you're willingly turning a blind eye to the exact same thing that is real and happening right now.

if it's a really old laptop, Ubuntu might be overkill, spec-wise. In that case i would suggest Alpine Linux, it's super lightweight and a really good distro for server use.

quantity doesn't always mean quality and when the subject is aur, i wouldn't count that as a metric. there are lots of orphaned packages, packages that have their source / binary / git versions, older libraries etc.

it USED TO be a nice repository, i don't why. but it's one of the main reasons i'm keeping away from arch because i cannot trust those packages anymore.