Comment by orochimaaru
5 days ago
I've been using a system 76 laptop for the past 3 years. Runs perfectly, no surprises. Unfortunately, I need a mac for work because the laptop service folks do not know what to do with linux and do not have a relationship with a vendor like system76.
Pros: The best development experience you can have. Everything is native linux. There is no beating that. This of course will be a problem if hobbies/work use windows. I've never been a windows person. So I've never missed it. Power and peripherals work on the system76 seamlessly.
Cons: Battery life. Runs out in about 2.5 hrs but its an AMD not an ARM.
I did run linux on a tower exclusively while I did my PhD. Did everything on it - code, writing my thesis in LaTeX, store data, connect to dropbox for backup, watch netflix, etc.
You're not missing much by dumping windows.
“Runs perfectly” but it’s 2025 and you’re getting 2.5 hours of battery life.
Seems more hardware than OS related, my MacBook Air M2 on Asahi Linux gets to 9+ hours.
> Cons: Battery life. Runs out in about 2.5 hrs but its an AMD not an ARM.
Damn, even my several year old Intel + Nvidia MSI GE66 can match that. Why is it so bad?
Really only Photoshop is the big gaping hole I feel as a linux user. Gimp is just atrocious.
There is a desktop webview of PhotoPea, but it's not the same.
I thought the same about Gimp, until I sat down and tried to learn it's workflows. Once you adjust, it's pretty great. imo, ymmv, obviously.
2.5 hours of battery is a serious gaping hole imo.
Year of the Linux desktop perhaps; Year of the Linux laptop perhaps not..
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I removed the batteries in our laptops because we use them like desktops all the time and it's one less fire hazard to worry about.
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Depending on what you are doing, if you don't fancy Gimp, then maybe one of: Krita, Darktable, Inkscape?
Have you tried running Affinity products via Wine? I've heard good things. I personally ditched Adobe years ago for Affinity on Windows & Mac. Only people I know still using Adobe for photo or vector work at a company that doesn't blink at paying for it.
Have you tried Photoshop's online version that runs in a Web browser?
(it uses wasm)
I'm in my 60's and have never run Photoshop. Nor my wife, my kids, none of my relatives I'm aware of for that matter. Come to think of it, of all the people I know, no one runs PhotoShop that I'm aware of.
So? It is still a pretty popular and useful piece of software even if your circle doesn't use it.
One of the big barriers to having more people use Linux is having the software packages they use to actually do work available on the platform. Image editing is the most popular software type that isn't really available on Linux with an equivalent to the commercial package that everyone uses.
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gimp is actually pretty good, but things are in different places than photoshop and that's a huge change.