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For like a month or two I decided, screw it, I am going to use all the programs I cannot use on Linux. This was mostly games and music making software.

I guess it was fun for a bit, tries different DAWs, did not play a single game because no time.

Basically, it was not worth it. The only thing I enjoyed was OneDrive, because having your files available anywhere is dope, but I also hate it because it wants to delete your local files. I think that was on me.

Anyways, I am back. Looking at Nextcloud. Looking at Ardour. I am fine paying for software, but morally I got to support and learn the tools that are available to me and respect FOSS. (Also less expensive... spent a lot on my experiment).

Anyone done this? Abondoned their principles thinking the grass would be greener, but only to look at their feet coverered in crap (ads, intrusive news, just bad UI).

I don't know. I don't necesarily regret it, but I won't be doing it again. What I spent is a sunk cost, but some has linux support, and VSTs for download. So, I shall see.

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago (35 children)

I still run dual-boot because Linux can be fucky and incompatible with things like Adobe but I am on Linux 99% of the time. But I also run software to strip most of the ads and spyware from Windows. But it feels like paying for a job and then turning around and doing the job yourself anyway 😡

[–] Eikichi@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (27 children)

I don't know your situation. I'm not an graphsit.

But what I've discovered,
There is nothing better to apply an self strict boycott, to learn other tools like gimp or others.

In the gaming, the boycott work as a filter though, which game I can or I can't.
And that's fine, and more the time is going on, and more its better and I don't feel my boycott hurting me so much. I've discovered (by my self, I knew it) apex legends last year to tell you XD

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Trying to figure anything out in Linux is an absolute shit show because every support document presumes you're a software engineer and uses all sorts of vocabulary I don't have or understand. If it doesn't work, I don't try to fix it, I just move on or fire up Windows and do it.

[–] VoidHeathen@mujico.org 1 points 1 year ago

"... And if all else fails, you can always see the source code and fix it"

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