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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    Hi. So, not all of the software you use will work on Linux (which btw isn’t a company but to put it simply a family of open source operating systems sharing a common core):

    • Affinity don’t offer a Linux version so you will need to try something like WINE to run the Windows versions.

    • Blender will defo work, not sure about the others

    • Davinci will work, has a Linux version

    • VSCode has a Linux version

    • File explorers work.

    Ubuntu sadly is not what it was.

    I’d suggest Pop_OS or Fedora- I think Fedora used to have a media oriented “Fedora Design Suite” version.

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      Davinci doesnt just work. They are proprietary so packaging as a flatpak is near impossible, which makes bundling drivers difficult.

      They require proprietary NVIDIA drivers afaik, but people also run it on AMD GPUs. No idea of Intel GPUs.

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      6 months ago

      That’s one thing I find particularly neat about Fedora, it has all of these software package groups that can be either added on at install, or installed at any time, including:

         3D Printing
         Administration Tools
         Audio Production
         Authoring and Publishing
         Books and Guides
         C Development Tools and Libraries
         Cloud Infrastructure
         Cloud Management Tools
         Container Management
         D Development Tools and Libraries
         Design Suite
         Development Tools
         Domain Membership
         Fedora Eclipse
         Editors
         Educational Software
         Electronic Lab
         Engineering and Scientific
         FreeIPA Server
         Games and Entertainment
         Headless Management
         LibreOffice
         MATE Applications
         MATE Compiz
         Medical Applications
         Milkymist
         Network Servers
         Office/Productivity
         Robotics
         RPM Development Tools
         Security Lab
         Sound and Video
         System Tools
         Text-based Internet
         Window Managers