I like how smooth the Adobe eco-system works so much that for quite a few years now I was willing to overlook all of their short-comings in regards to software licensing or how their walled garden tried to keep my data … even from me.
If it wasn’t for their total lack of support for Linux and their express attempts to keep me from even trying to run their software through wine etc. … I would very likely still be overlooking those shortcomings. But my spontaneous decision to go back home to linux changed that. Still feels like coming home even though overall I was longer on Windows for work/play now than I ever was on Linux…
It is really strange in some ways … but I feel my digital life is much freer now–sometimes with a bit less comfort and sometimes a lot of frustration (do not try to sync files with # or + in their names/directories with Nextcloud)… but I quickly forget the frustrations.
And to everyone here who feels put off by some of the shenanigans I write about: I tend to have very complicated requirements and niche use-cases because I am a techie and a dev and I like to do complicated stuff with computers when I can. And on Linux I really can.
A modern linux desktop is not much different from windows with the user experience at surface level. It installs trivially:
- choose distribution when in doubt Ubuntu, Mint or Fedora which ever screenshots you like best on their websites
- download ISO image
- use Rufus.ie to create an USB Stick with that image
- go to bios change boot order and boot from stick,
- click through the installation and forget you ever were on Windows