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a lot of people use the proprietary software not because they necessarily like it but because it’s industry standard and we have to since they cornered the market.

i personally only switched to linux after i left the field. photoshop ran at the time but it was janky enough i couldn’t do the work i needed to do with it!

i’m pretty sure orca slicer is native on linux.

yeah that’s a problem. but we also need a lot of work on this side of wine.

they can certainly bring more people to their platform at a time computers are getting expensive to build, but integrators buying in bulk can wrestle better prices.

get that and other common specialty software like autocad and stuff to run reliably, and there would be even less of a barrier for people to switch. i wish valve sponsored more of this work beyond running games. i love that it does but most people’s bread and butter must come here.

it’s garbage that runs in a browser though!

you will eventually get the “hey you are from lemmy.ml therefore you are very bad” at the slightest hint of not being a chud.

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there’s your problem. that’s a step way too far.

if you are doing such light work, krita and inkscape might be right up your alley.

not that it matters anymore now that adobe stuff is supposed to work better.

have you tried it? adobe programs usually work, it was the installer that was broken.

i never tried lightroom though, i’m a bit curious if it’d work well.

just curious, what do you need it for alternatives like wps and lo can’t do?

it’s excel isn’t it?

they still somehow believe china is just as bad

i do find amusing that libs are now thinking about imperialism. baby steps, i suppose.

oh hell yeah. and libs think this shit started with trump.

so many pretend leftists tryna pretend china is 10% as evil.

venezuela.

shit, the entirety of south america.

it’s decentralized reddit. or better yet, a decentralized network of forums.

i usually make the email analogy, where you can use any provider to access the same email network preventing vendor lock-in, but i don’t think that’s very catchy.

shit, we should reclaim all tech. it’s all fucking ours.

you could probably get it running if you hated yourself enough.

some libs just larp as anarchists because it makes them sound cooler.

we should be onto those.

how so?

i agree with the sentiment, but to be fair we want to convince our fellows too, right? an eye to eye conversation is always better, but some of them are indeed swayed by the infographics and memes and assorted stuff we do.

there has to be a communist in every corner as part of the people, and that includes the corners of the internet while we can.

and when most people more or less knows we are being fucked and why, things become more conducive to some deposing.

ha, yeah. why do you think they have been pushing surveillance so aggressively for so many years.