Linux talk ?

I use Linux now, its great and a brilliant alternative to Windows/mac with no real drawbacks so how about a Linux talk ?

I've used Linux on and off since Slackware 2.0 came out.

Excellent OS, but the drawbacks are real IMO, and have to do with a great deal of widely-used software unfortunately not running natively on it. If I didn't like so much Windows software, I'd strongly consider a KDE-based distro.

I applaud new DPR's addition of a Linux forum; I always wondered if the lack of a Linux-specific forum discouraged potential users, though they were welcome in old DPR's PC Talk. I see there's activity in Linux Talk already; that's encouraging.

Hello everyone . I just came from DPReview and joined here . Although I use windows so I can run many programs that won't run on Linux .I started using linux Zorin many years ago for my web browsing . Then I switched to Linux Mint several years ago . I'm now running Mint 20.3 because Mint 19.3 runs out in April . I didn't upgrade to Mint 21.1 because it takes away a file sharing program I use almost daily . It's the best program I have found to share files with any windows computers and from any windows to my Mint computer. Glad to see others use a linux system too

Could be, they've already incorporated Linux into Windows, and Windows is now essentially (as I see it) free for individuals.
As long as my Windows software runs with full performance, I'm totally on board with that idea.

   Thats entirely possible not a rumour I have heard but interesting, they have already made the Microsoft Edge browser based on Chrome, they decided there was no point persisting with their own "Internet Explorer" when Chromium was available , they have just customised it, and very good it is too, I use Edge with Linux, its great

OK I will rephrase it, "there are no drawbacks for me", the one program I like that has no native Linux version is Faststone, but it runs perfectly using the brilliant WINE emulator, I cant tell the difference now running it in Windows and Linux

What was the app? (As a Mint user, I'm always looking to see what I might have overlooked on this platform...)
Steve

Chrome also runs fine on Linux. Why do you prefer Edge? Compared to Firefox, it has the same ugly fonts as Chrome. Firefox on top in screenshot.

Also, how the heck did you get monospace font? Maybe you put it in <> code.

How does Lightroom and Photoshop run on a Linux system?

I'm not a Linux guy, but since nobody else has answered this yet I'll hazard a guess and say that there are emulators available for *nix systems that allow you to run Windows programs on them.

There's a Linux add-on called WINE that enables some Windows programs to run under Linux.

www.winehq.org/

WINE has an application database that describes how well each Windows apps has worked for others.

appdb.winehq.org/

I have not used it myself.

You can run them in a Windows virtual machine. I have tested Windows 7 in a 4 core 8 GB VirtualBox, with decent results. But if I have to run Windows at all, I'd rather run Nikon's NX.

JC

I do it the other way around. My most resource-intensive applications are photo ones that run in Windows - primarily Lightroom and Photoshop. Hence I run native Windows and various Linux virtual machines (using VirtualBox) for other things. Windows tends to want much more memory than linux, so it makes sense to me to make that the host operating system. Also it's easy to have multiple linux builds, in some cases running at the same time. Currently I have kubuntu, ubuntu and Mint in use. Kubuntu is my current workhorse for my main task in linux - to prototype and develop mostly Wordpress websites on a LAMP stack.

I think Edge started out as a proprietary browser to replace IE. Then at some point they gave up and re-did it using Chrome as the base.

I have a dual boot set-up. My primary is now Ubuntu with a heavily tweaked desktop so it looks and works pretty much like Win 7 and my secondary is Win10. I use darktable on Ubuntu for all my post 2019 work and revert to Windows when I use LR perpetual for all my pre 2019 work (and when I print, as I have never been able to print effectively from Ubuntu except under TurboPrint - which costs far too much for an app that just does the printing Ubuntu should already be able to do).