• dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Linux was 100% an alternative to me, not sure why it isn’t? Why isn’t linux an alternative to any operating system?

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      1 month ago

      I’m not saying it can’t be an alternative for a lot of people.

      I’m just stating my personal position, for my use case.

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        1 month ago

        Just curious, which software do you have to run on windows? I used to think alternatives for photography weren’t good enough but I changed my mind recently. Alternatives exist, but just like switching from windows, it requires the willingness to relearn how to do things I was used to in adobe lightroom and photoshop.

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          The Affinity suite, Designer, Photo, and Publisher. I have used Inkscape, Gimp, and Scribus, but Affinity is very intuitive, easy to work with, professional, inexpensive one-time payment (per major version), very well integrated between apps, and follows the same paradigms. I’ve never been a fan of Adobe.

          Running Affinity in Wine is a hack, and a lot less responsive in a VM.

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            1 month ago

            Makes sense.

            I wanted to try the Affinity suite but found it doesn’t work on Linux. I also tried running it via wine but had massive issues. I’d gladly pay if they release it for Linux. Until then, I’ll use free alternatives.