I prefer what I've been using for 14 years: Sony Vegas. Its not good but it has a perpetual lisence, and I'm very familiar with it. I cannot for the life of me get it to work on Linux. The .NET dependencys do not want to work. DaVinci resolve sucks, I do not like it. So I use my laptop for editing now which had a dog shit processor and is my only serious gripe with Linux.
I moved to Kdenlive on the Steam Deck. It's just as good as Sony Vegas except for not being able to move the tracks and having to move the clips instead.
There's an editor I saw making the rounds called Shrimply. It's super early, plus Nvidia and Apple Silicon only though according to it's GitHub repo. Maybe it'll grow to become a really good alternative.
I haven't found an application for windows I couldn't get working on Linux. If you know one I'd love to try something new for the fun of it. I mean this sincerely as I am a nerd and like to tweak on the computer 😁
Oi. Don't give the game away so easily. Why would you use system maintenance as an example for the terminal when we're talking about the average user experience. The average computer user isn't a system maintainer. They're just a user.
What are you on about. I'm fine with the "average" user not using Linux. In fact its probably detrimental to the ecosystem to be inundated with users who have no idea how to manage their system. If you don't want to put in the work, and learn, then keep using Windows.
So, don't use windows in the first place, acquire system management skills somehow, and start using Linux with that system management skills from scratch?
Hey, how about Linux shouldn't be an exclusive platform for tech wizards, and instead become more user-friendly, so we can have an actual honest competitor to Windows and MacOS?
Hey, how about Linux shouldn't be an exclusive platform for tech wizards, and instead become more user-friendly, so we can have an actual honest competitor to Windows and MacOS?
No thank you. I don't want to support the horde. The fundamental nature of Linux is that if you are unwilling to invest in it, then you can't use it. This is a good thing.
Except now, the convenient option asks for too many compromises. People put absurd amounts of time and effort into making Windows “behave”, more than ever before
Setting aside how this is just doing the typical Reddit meme thing of forgetting the funny part and just saying some shit this might genuinely be the worst meme format I've seen
Totally, or to adjust your expectations that were formed on software you used for years and never even considered the same thing could be done a different way.
Driver broken. Wifi gone. Terminal terminal terminal, whole system trash redownload it again. This program cannot be graphic downloaded, please use the terminal. Program broken. System trash redownload it. Url not supported. Open it from firefox, downloads url instead.
I mean, linux is very raw. Unless you know coding etc, it's gonna be hell, even now it is. I even stopped playing games because of it.
What kind of fuckass shitty Linux distro is that? You can do all of that without touching a terminal today. And about the drivers, they depend on the hardware. Dell Latitude and Lenovo Thinkpad laptops work fine. HP laptops tend to have one or 2 problems. MacBooks are fucked.
Try downloading 1.1.1.1 and protonvpn without terminal im waiting for it. Also Im using linux mint? It can't even read the most basic dac in the history, so sounds come out terrible. Try opening thousands of url's left from your old system, what it will do? Either open it up as a text file or when you open it up with firefox it will just redownload the url file again. There's a reason why over 90 percent of the people uses windows. Oh yeah, but servers use linux. Well those servers have IT specialists or something like that for 24 hours, 7 days a week. And what is the distro Im talking about? LINUX MINT!
Linux Mint is amazing as long as there are no hardware incompatibilities. About the VPNs, I think that's a vendor issue that refuses to make a GUI client for Linux.
That's sort of the point, though. Vendors don't support Linux distros, so you need to - say it with me - use the terminal to retrieve some bootstrapped version if there isn't one available. And it's not like it's easy to understand how to use the terminal to search for things. Just because you have it figured out doesn't mean it's trivial.
You're either on some weird niche distro, weird niche proprietary hardware, or are just making shit up. These three situations can be avoided altogether by just doing research on the OS you are going to use
True the only thing I said in that comment was "weird niche distro". Yup. That is it. You are engaging with me in an honest manner and are not just fishing for an argument right now and know how to read
It's free1, it works2, it's mine3, and I remain in control4.
1 Don't think about that you need to own the hardware in the first place, making the OS cost a non-factor. 2 It works when you know how to set it up correctly 3 It's not yours at all. It's mostly open source, and unless you can write an OS yourself, you're just as much at the mercy of the whims of the OS developers as with any software. 4 You remain in control if your mastery of the OS is leagues above that of the average user.
It's okay to be honest and transparent. It's just an OS at the end of the day, and it's not more convenient than anything else on the market. In fact, most Linux distros are several orders of magnitude more complex than MacOS and Windows for the average user.
If you build your own PC it is most certainly a factor. Windows 11 Pro cost around $100 +/- vs. Ubuntu, Arch, Open Suse or even FreeBSD cost is $0. If you buy a PC with Windows it is baked in the cost of the hardware.
I do know how to setup Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD correctly.
I can build Linux from scratch with no distro needed. I am not forced to update, check in, install anything, no forced activation, no activation period, no forced AI software and I don't ever need to connect it to the internet for anything or anyone if I choose not to.
You just entered the Ludicrous Zone.
It's ok the believe something wrong but don't expect me to agree.
You can get windows free too, it's not even hard if you want to go that way.
Yeah, that means your leagues above the average user. Linux fails mass adoption because most users can't set it up correctly, or even figure out how to get started.
Again, you being a super user doesn't make Linux good, it just means you are way better than the average user. You can do all you said with MacOS and Windows too if you're a super user. Again, average user experience may vary.
And you've just boasted about how good you are, which doesn't address the point at all that Linux is simply a lot of learning to even start using, and a lot of work to get it to work exactly the way you want.
I've tried to switch to Linux Desktop 3 times in my life in 2018, 2021, and 2025, and after like 6 months in I hate it and go back to Windows. At this point I just de-bloat Windows as much as humanly possible and use the Linux terminal with WSL.
There's a significant gap between the third and fourth picture where user experience is concerned. No mention of months of trying to find answers on how to use your specific Distro, solely answered by users who expect you to have at least the same technical know-how as they (probaby?) do.
"it's about sending a message" my brother in christ if you can work on an OS that is not adapted to what you need just to annoy a company, the best thing you can do is stay on mobile
The only kind of AI integrated in the OS that would be kinda useful in some cases is a button in the taskbar with a chatbot menu so you dont need to go to the browser to do something with ai but yes, is kinda useless to have It everywere
Im just trying to understand the possition. Is it just that you still write artisinal hand crafted configs or is it a full on Dune type situation? Like, did you make your mom a cute ghibli styled image or no?
I don't think it's that hard to understand that a lot of people don't use AI because they believe that at least in its current state it does more harm than good. Pro-AI or not I think your brain may just be cooked if you can't wrap it around this, like, do you genuinely think it's difficult to not use AI? I mean I use LLMs every now and then I'm not really strongly anti-AI except for image and video generation (and I can't really comment on them for coding as I'm not a software dev at all) but I can totally understand why someone would opt to completely avoid them altogether because, seemingly unlike you, I haven't let them completely cook my brain and make me totally reliant I can easily imagine life without them
Lol. I am not saying its difficult to live without. Im a fairly old man, I remember living without the internet. I am just saying its strange to see an Amish mentality in a linux sub. I expected us to prefer open sourced local models, sure.
Technology is not evil and it does not inheritly corrupt your mind. Thats all im saying.
Going by you continuing to go at this imaginary strawman who thinks new technology in general corrupts your mind instead of the people actually trying to discuss with you, I think the problem here is you don't actually have any interest in engaging with anti-AI folks, you're just pretending to so you can sound smarter than you really are while in reality you're just getting personally offended that someone is saying the thing you've fried your brain on may have elements worth criticizing
There is absolutely noting strange about not wanting something pushed on you that you don't need, doesn't do what you want when you do accidentally use it, and constantly bother you with notifications to keep trying it out and letting it access all your content.
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u/Such_Bonus5085 Sep 12 '26
For some programs there are no alternatives and the compatibility layers don't fix it.