Us nerds don’t buy laptops?

I don’t either, but there are many in my family and friends I will gladly support.

I have been a Serif user since the early 2000’s and Affinity since V 1

I love the suite, and use it to do pro stuff, mostly typesetting supported by photo and designer.

Tracing is one of the features I really missed. Now I have it.

I have the universal license for V2, and it’s so good that it’s going to be relevant for a while.

The fact that Canva is, for the time being making it free, and not forcing AI, and allowing it to be optional, is OK by me. If I need AI for a job, I can pay for a month, pretty cheap for what I’m going to be paid.

I like the situation.

Canva is essentially making migration from Adobe easy and free, to poach users.

Win Win in my opinion

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Logitech requires login and connection to their servers to carry out some configs. I’m a long time user, but won’t buy anymore

Brother, brother.

Why would you use third party inks in an ecotank? Genuine epson inks in bottles for the ecotank are super cheap. I follow the opposite route. Refillable epson compatible cartridges with ecotank inks. Epson quality with third party costs.

I’m a fight simmer, and have used Flight gear. The main top options now are MS flight simulator, with incredible vusuals, and Laminar’s Xplane, better flight model, so good in fact, that Laminar has a version which is FAA approved for simulator hours for pilots certification, and still great graphics. Both are way, way better than Flight gear (which is truly amazing for a FOSS flight Sim.)

If flight Sims are key to your decision making, I would pay for X Plane, a pay once model, that runs natively in Linux, Windows, and Mac, then spec around that. Next decision for me would be the GPU. In Linux most people seem to recommend AMD. I haven’t delved into the issue, since I’ve had AMD for a while.

My usual decision process is:

1- analyze needs (programs and stuff that are important).

2- budget.

3- decide general specs.

4- get the best power supply I can afford within budget, gold, active PFC, modular, etc. Spec for at least 20% more wattage than maximum projected consumption Do a bit of research, googling etc. Be wary of ranked lists from established publications, as they are often influenced by manufacturers. So many people don’t understand that the PS is the single most important component to ensure that everything else works correctly. Forum/reddit threads are better.

5- a good case. Fractal is my current go to.

6- GPU

7- processor.

8- board, Ram, memory, SSD, cooling

9- yoke, joystick (hotas), and pedals. 10 - everything else.

Old timer IT guy here. I have built all my computers since the early 90s. My process has always started with a top notch power supply, then a top notch case. My current one is a Fractal. It’s beautiful, and the quality is incredible.

Usual Chuck Lorre series lifecycle. Many are pretty good, for their 1st, 2nd, seasons. Then they should die gracefully.

I have the same questions about Stremio.

Because I use a paid graphics suite for profit (Affinity, great and pretty decent payment model), and I’m OK-ish with paying (a fair price) for stuff that allows me to make money, but I’d rather live in Linux for most everything else.

I currently use Affinity mostly in a VM, and dual boot for some very specific things, but this seems to be a way to make the experience better.

Also, a lot of people have paid for a license when buying their computer. I’m OK with people sidestepping the strict licensing terms if they have paid for it.

It’s not “you have pirated it”, but “you aren’t using it exactly as we want you to”

How is the user experience with Linux?

I’m a Linux /Android/occasional Windows user who after 4 generations of Android tablets, finally gave up and got an iPad (first and only Apple device in decades), because it’s leagues ahead in user experience.

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I don’t know if it’s being done, but since AI is here to stay, and these sort of tasks seem to fit with their capabilities, maybe a group could carry out testing.

Yes. I would think that English having so many exceptions to it’s rules, and so many ways to pronounce a letter, could deal with symplifiying, such as; de=the, dos=those…

I like how Spanish is mostly phonetic.

Because I may like it better? No harm in trying something different. I always have Mint to fall back to. You could call it slow cycle distro hopping :)

Wine is still kind of a thing, as in it’s what is underneath Proton, the base.

I’ve used mint for ages. Most flavors, and tried most DEs. I use Mint in my laptop currently.

It’s like jeans. You can wear them for ages, for most every situations, but at some point you may decide to give chinos a try. Also comfortable, versatile, but different.