What stops you from switching permanently to linux?
For me its software availability, specifically:
>Rhino/Grasshopper
>Autodesk Revit
>lack of decent CAD software
>Lack of Finite element analysis software (maybe there's some I haven't discovered yet)
Battery life. OS X gives me a solid 8 hours.
UEFI and laziness
Have used lunix 2007-2013 before
>>54906935
I find that having a career and social life interferes with my want to sit in my basement fixing Xorg all day.
>>54906935
I stopped caring about its future when they adopted systemd out of fear and ineptitude.
I no longer care which OS I use nor do I care about the internet, any data I have acquired, or the future of mankind.
Shit graphics card drivers. When i build a better pc, this laptop (the one i'm using right now) will be only for hackintoshes and that pc will be just Linux.
>>54906971
As a heavy Arch user, i didn't touch nearly any Xorg configs in a year (except to disable mouse accel)
>>54906987
Don't cut yourself on that edge.
>>54906971
Those things clearly don't interfere with your shitposting though.
>>54906935
I've got nothing to hide when I use windows 10.
I unlocked a core on my piece of shit AMD CPU and for some reason it makes the Linux kernel lose its shit and spam the kernel log and any open terminal with obscure error messages.
Windows seems to be dealing with it fine.
The fact that Windows 7 already does everything I want it to do and I'm accustomed to it.
>What stops you from switching permanently to linux?
The fact that it sucks, basically. Been dealing with Linux since Linus first posted his code on Usenet decades ago, used Slackware 1.0 - the original Linux distro - and most everything since and it still fucking sucks.
>>54906935
I no care
I love it
Full time linuxer for 4 years ish
Everything is actually fine
>>54906935
I cannot do my gayman activities because shit drivers.
Ableton Live and Cycling 74's Max, that's it. Actually used Linux for many years and love it. Hopefully Bitwig soon catches up
>>54906935
Even though Linux is more stable as a server, Windows is more stable as a desktop. I never have to reinstall Windows. I never get "Xorg problems" in Windows.
Windows also have better software. When you have 10 times more software written for the OS, it's inevitable that you'll most often find the best alternative in Windows.
>>54907144
Quality > quantity.
>>54906935
lack of driver support combined with the fact that I can't be arsed to write my own
A real job
I just like how polished everything is in OS X. It just works.
But I actually HAVE TO start using Linux at home since they use FOSS almost exclusively at my new job and I want to know how to tweak and troubleshoot Linux.
>mfw I first saw my Kubuntu workstation
>>54907163
It's a statistical curve thing. Even if Linux software as twice as good as Windows software on average (which I doubt so), when you have 10 times as many software, chances are the best in Windows is better than the best in Linux.
With linux its easy to permanently mess up your OS since you have to manually install everything. It happened to me. I even kept clone backups going to prevent it, but it turned out that my OS became fucked up and my backup didnt work so I ditched linux forever
It's held together like a fucking nigger-rigged dirty bomb and fucking functions like one.
>>54906935
gayming
>>54906935
osx is better for desktop/gui usage.
>>54906935
Visual Studio is C++ king
>>54906935
because most commercial hardware/software manufacturers don't give a fuck about linux and dedicate maybe a tenth of their development resources to it.
It's always a second-class citizen experience, and it shows
>>54906935
Is pic of "Microsoft tech support rep calling because your copy of windows is broken?"
>>54906935
>What stops you from switching permanently to linux?
I neither want nor need to. There is no advantage for me to switching to an OS that I would have to relearn from scratch having not used for over 2 decades like I have Windows.
There's nothing any Linux Distro offers me that would ever make me switch. It's as simple as that.
I'm spotting some really basic spelling and grammar mistakes in this thread...
>>54907023
Good, the NSA can concentrate on dumb winfags drones like you and less on linux users.
I started using it "permanently" ~2 years ago and I don't see myself going back
>>54907144
Spoken like a true winshill, enjoy your blue screens of death.
Let's see.
AMD support is trash. Have to enable DRI3 for it to be bearable, except for Gnome 3 or KDE which are heavy.
Defaults for pretty much almost every desktop out there are pretty silly.
There's not a fully featured music player that doesn't look like shit.
GUIs are a thing, not everyone's going to use CLIs.
The obvious which is game and graphic design tool support.
Also I used to hear that intel graphics were excellent. Intel 4600 is pretty fucking laggy on linux.
peripheral drivers.
I got tired of not being able to use all the features of a printer/scanner/webcam/keyboard/mouse/etc...
>>54907555
Is this legit still a thing?
I haven't had any trouble with peripherals for years now.
>>54907602
Depends on peripherals in question. It's usually a thing when you're trying to connect something "not mainstream enough" - too old, too recent or otherwise niche.
>>54907602
It's rare to find devices that have drivers specifically for linux, and most of the time they're inferior to the windows\osx drivers. Of course linux usually has generic drivers that'll work for the basic functions.
>>54906935
Touchdesigner pretty much
If Derivative put out a linux build I would never look back
>>54907132
I had a hard drive die on me like 2007 and installed debian and puredata and spent two years learning both. Look into puredata, it's just opensource max/msp (made by Miller Puckette). As for an Ableton alternative, I dunno
>>54906935
>I will never be able to grow a mustache like that
Fuck you, chink genetics
>>54906935
I ran only linux for years and still do on my main desktop but i had to install windows on my laptop for work... not trying to run wine on a 200 dollar shitbox. It really does have everything nowadays its easy as hell to use and you can find documentation on everything. Also freecad is not amazing and certainly not comparable to solidworks but for 99 percent of users it is sufficient. I actually use cad on a daily basis and can safely say most people do not need anything close to the features available on freecad or blender.
plenty of fea on linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_finite_element_software_packages
you have to understand many large scale science projects run linux stations and use them for everything. Scientists develop tools on linux and projects save a ton of money by running free software.
For me its the goddamned drivers and trying to get games and software to function well. If those had functional parity with windows I would drop it and not look back.
>What stops you from switching permanently to linux?
Nothing, because I already have.
>>54906935
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
World of Warcraft 1.12.1 and League of Legends. Those are the two programs that do not perform well enough on my setup under Linux.
This would be fixed with a better GPU but I like having a silent workstation.
I really like Gnome project and even Unity to some extent.
>>54906935
I boot into into my Windows partition once a month to play games for a few hours while SyncToy backs up media to my archive drive.
Honestly if my Windows partition went south I probably wouldn't even reinstall it. I'd just settle for whatever games i could get to run in WINE and set up a rsync cron job.
tl;dr - inertia
>>54907793
So why are you posting in this thread?
>>54907829
Because I'm waiting for something to install, and my YouTube playlist finished.
>>54906935
photoshop
office
>>54907875
Are you running CC?
If not, anything up to CS5/CS6 and office can be run in a virtual box at practically full speed. Run it in seamless mode.
>>54907023
>I've got nothing to hide when I use windows 10.
"I've got nowhere to hide when I use windows 10."
Fixed it for you.
Engineering software and digital drawing software.
DPI scaling
Thumbnails in file picker
>>54906971
Yeah, wouldn't want anything to get in the way of shitposting on 4chan all day.
>>54909478
>Thumbnails
?????
>>54906935
>What stops you from switching permanently to linux?
my lack of virginity
>>54906935
Lol pakalu papito a cute
>>54909521
Yeah sorry. Lack of* thumbnails.
>>54906935
Gay men
>>54906935
I'm happy with OS X.
>>54907092
Lol his stuck behind windows
> needing all that shit to do engineering / whatever
> good one
enjoy your crutches and 'real world' memes you fall for, nigger no one cares.
>>54907875
gimp
libreoffice
>>54907875
Can't you run them in Wine?
Pajeet is intellect dripping down at every second. I doubt there is anyone smarter or wiser than him in the world. He is the epitome of intelligence. I think he is the greatest Indian of last 10-25 years. Maybe greatest Indian since independence, maybe greatest human since Gautam Buddha.
>>54906935
Wow, windows steam games and office.
>>54906935
NX is fucking awesome and it runs on linux.
Go kill yourself.
>>54909927
nintendo nx?
>>54906935
>For me its software availability,
>For me
For everyone.
No one wants to bother making software for Linux because the userbase is minuscule.
And the userbase is minuscule because there's no specialized software for it.
What /g/ doesn't get is the desktop market is SHRINKING not the other way around. Memester desktop users - you know the kind, just browsing and spreadsheets, etc. they simply move to mobile. You can do your taxes on a tablet no fucking problem, and it's handier for socialcancer websites.
So really what Linux retards have to realize is this - either suck the dick of pro application vendors and beg them to release Linux versions (but muh non free software) or make some mobile OS alternative to Android that can run android apps.
There is nothing else left to do at this point.
If you don't do it Linux will die. Without a fucking doubt.
I personally don't give a crap either way.
Nothing, I am already using GNU/Linux as my daily computer.
>browser to allow me to shitpost on /g/
>all the programming tools I need
>bonus: a slow growing number of good Linux games that I play once in awhile.
>>54909783
Yes, analysis using numerical models requires software.
Are you retarded?
>>54906966
mint buntu and fedora are uefi friendly.
>>54906971
If you tinker with conf files, you should use Arch.
Pacman runs checksums and will NOT overwrite conf files that have been editted.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave
>>54909950
NX unigraphics
>>54906947
Same for me. My plan was to install Ubuntu after buying my MBPr because I bought it for the keyboard, trackpad and SSD. Turns out Ubuntu only gives me 5 hours of battery life while I get 10 on OS X.
>>54906935
Video games
And having to switch the boot order at startup is a pain.
>>54906935
Who the fuck goes into CAD?
>>54906935
A Parametric Equalizer.
Still no alternative to EqualizerAPO.
>>54906935
>no Excel
>shitty nvidia drivers (noveau)
>Linux runs smoother in VMWare on Windows than on bare metal
>no games
>Emacs still runs on Windows
>>54906935
OS X is.
>>54906935
Drivers.
Ease of use.
I can live without gaymen, but if my system is not performing on par with Windows, Linux can go fuck itself.
>>54906935
muh gaymes
Games
Microsoft Office
Bad skype support
I use Linux on my laptop 90% of the time though.
Dark Souls. No seriously. Dark Souls series is like the only game I play recently. Wine is hit and miss, and getting VGA pass through working with a nvidia card is such a convoluted process. Other than that, all my stuff is do able on Linux. Office, makeMKV Blu-ray ripper is Linux native. Handbrake. Ffmpeg. That and Ubuntu MATE is so damned comfy.
>inb4 gaymes
I use my OS for everything. And play games when I have free time. Ubuntu getting more main stream games made natively for it would increase popularity ten fold. If not more. Could you imagine the number of people who would be using Ubuntu if various AAA games were made native for it?
>SHOC, Armed Assault and Arma2
Which i fire up every now and then (few times a year). OFP and HoI2 works fine with wine (sound goes apeshit sometimes, at least with oss4).
>>54906935
Architect here. Agree with the above reasons. I need Sketchup too.
>>54911346
>>54911400
>>54910557
Maybe i'll try them again then
>>54906935
Muh games
Muh OS that just werks
No time to spend on fiddling with Linux.
I also represent about 90 percent of non-linux users.
>>54910557
>Implying that the distro's have anything to do with that
>>54911418
...C-Citizendium-senpai...
>>54911442
What version of Linux were you using that it wasn't UEFI friendly? Even Mint works fine on all new computers and motherboards. Dual booting windows 7 and Ubuntu MATE 16.04 currently with zero issues. Just make sure to install using the UEFI boot method otherwise grub won't load.
>>54911539
Those two people are not the same...
>>54909857
>gimp
>libreanything
LOL
O
L
>>54906935
The fact that Windows works like shit after 2 or 3 mounts of usage, comparing to the first boot
>>54906935
I just permamenty fucked up lubuntu's X server by typing a couple xrandr commands and startX. I've tried looking into the logs but I'm not going to bother fixing this or reinstalling for a few days.
I've gone back and forth between windows and linux many times, but I'm always forced back to windows for some reason. Typically compatability and stability.
>>54911779
not even a problem for anyone with some common sense
>>54906935
use wine
>>54906935
Siemens NX runs on linux. But of course you cannot afford it
>>54906935
lazyness
>>54906935
1. gaymen
2. software - My day job is developing on the Microsoft technology stack, Azure, SSMS, VS, etc.
I'm still using linux mint as much as I can though. Windows 10 is complete shit and I have no plans to ever upgrade from 7 except for work and maybe in a VM for gaming.
>>54907228
what
If I had Photoshop, Office, and decent video card drivers then I would never look at Windows again for my home computers.
I've used GIMP and I've used Krita. They're both still clunky. Photoshop CS6 works pretty well in Wine, but there are still some deal-breaking bugs. For example, there's this[0] shit that has had a patch for over four years, but they haven't merged it yet. So your options are to either use a really old build of Wine from PlayOnLinux that has the patch or build your own package, which is a tremendous hassle. Performance is also pretty crappy, but that could be related to my drivers.
Office 2010 runs pretty well, except for some hangups with Excel. I'm relatively fine with it.
My video card drivers are currently dog shit and AMD just deprecated fglrx which makes the situation even worse for me. Hopefully their AMDGPU shit makes this better eventually. I'm not holding my breath. I don't play too many video games, but they're nice every now and then. But because of my shitty video card drivers it's pretty much impossible for me to play anything under Linux.
My sound card (Sound Blaster Z) also apparently doesn't work in Linux. Apparently there's a patch for that too, but I'm really fucking sick of dealing with custom kernels.
[0] https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29871
Photoshop
Visual Studio
Vidya Gayms
>>54913812
>Office, and decent video card drivers
Linux already has those though, and they're even better than Windows' version.
>ITT i'm mentally impaired to set up Virtualbox/VMWare
Oh i forgot, Indian's IQ is around 80
>>54910955
>goes into CAD
What are you talking about?
Thousands, if not tens of thousands of people use it every day.
>>54913856
Maybe if you've got an Nvidia card, but that's not an option for me because I've got a FreeSync monitor and they're too Jewish to support an open standard.
As for Office, I'm not even sure what you're referring to. LibreOffice sucks pretty hard, especially Calc. Since I actually use spreadsheets that's kinda important.
>>54913893
These people who use it everyday usually also use it on their company's provided PC's. What kind of firm do you work in which doesn't even provide you with a pc to work with?
>>54913880
>running hardware accelerated software through virtualbox
Honestly, step up the shitposting
so like 5 people in all of /g/ use linux?
thats the same type of irony you find in /k/
>>54913924
I use it at work to produce structural drawings.
At home I use it to draw up steelwork cutting patterns for myself and fabric cutting patterns for my mother.
Let me guess
>muh use case is the only use case ever
Idiot.
>>54914079
>I bring my work with me home
I seriously hope you don't do this.
>>54914110
Do you have problems with reading comprehension?
>>54914134
No, do you?
>>54914110
>I have personal uses for a software that I also use at work
>somehow it's bringing the work home
Kill yourself you freetard fuck.
>>54906935
Unstable as fuck.
Drivers are a shit.
The only reason I use it is because the project I'm working on requires me to. Otherwise fuck Ubuntu and fuck Linux and most of all fuck Libre Office, that unusable fisher-price piece of shit.
>>54914156
I produce structural drawings at work.
I make cutting patterns at home.
These are two different things, dipshit.
>>54914079
>http://alternativeto.net/software/freecad/?platform=linux
Seems like everyone on /g/ uses AutoCAD these days.
>>54914247
Don't really care about what /g/ uses.
I use it as an engineer.
FYI
The piece of software you've just linked to is a parametric modeler, completely different to AutoCAD.
>>54906935
THOSE AUTODESK FEELS MY BRO
>>54914515
Autodesk actually produce some ok software. (aside from Robot, which is just polish vodka fuled software with an autodesk logo on it - srs, the big button in the top left doesn't actually do anything, try it next time)
Technically it pushes the industry forward, but they are such god damnned jews its unbelievable.
That and their proprietary formats bring them down to a shit tier level company
>>54907055
>>slackware
>>the original linux distro
choose one
so tell me, what did 1.0 look like when you booted it up?
>>54914110
>I have no reading comprehension
>I have a job that requires me to commute to an office
>I project my lack of success onto others
