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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    1 year ago

    How do you run a containerized web browser and password manager in Windows?

    If you aren’t then I see the complaint ridiculous, because outside of flatpak it works fine.

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      1 year ago

      Look, Flatpak is great and solves the packaging problem of Linux desktop apps once and for all for all distros.

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        1 year ago

        That doesn’t answer the question.

        I agree, they are great, but they are also new and have bugs to work out.