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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.

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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.
[–] dan00@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Thanks! I’ll check Ventoy. Yea, i just don’t want to change everything to end up with amazon search bar instead or bing.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No ads, at least for the most part.

Don't forget terminal ads for Ubuntu pro

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

From what I'm reading, Ubuntu is slowly turning into Windows.

Ubundows? Winbuntu? I'll see myself out...

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

I mean, they've been partnered for a decade... EEE anyone?

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean, Canonical is a for profit company so I'm not sure what anyone was expecting. Ubuntu had its moment in the sun where it was considered the newbie friendly Linux distro for free users but now they're going pretty hard for corporate customers and enterprise features. Which is fine, they need money to stay afloat and some enterprises are into them so more power to them - they contribute a lot of time and money to various Linux projects. They're the Debian derived redhat equivalent these days and that's okay, if they pivot too far in their own interest people will just stop using their distro.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No...

Ubuntu is not very cool but they are not Windows.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, a company that's been partnered with Microsoft for a decade, and has had horrible corpo ideas like selling user searches to Amazon and running ads in the terminal, has totally nothing to do with windows. Nope, definitely not spelunking in MS's ass to get defaulted in WSL and Azure, it just happened because it's the most beloved and bestest distro ever...