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Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon (www.neowin.net)

submitted 3 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] take6056@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

From my experience it's still a common misconception and I think it's the largest potential group that can switch. Sucks that your usecase is unsupported, though. Just out of interest, what software can you still not run?

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're right that it's a common misconception that games don't work on Linux, and that misconception needs to be addressed. But playing games occasionally is such a common thing that you can't treat them as one homogenous group. "Everyone" plays games. But many many of them do other things as well on their computers, and many of those would consider the other thing more important than the games.

People who use the Abobe suite for example. Digital media creation in general (massive group of people btw) is subpar on Linux. Personally my biggest hurdles right now are DTP software and a specific piece of music production software+hardware combination from Native Instruments.

Not to mention that most people are not ready to deal with a Linux installation that is having issues.

[–] take6056@feddit.nl 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I really hope a future will become reality where Adobe has some competition and/or an incentive to port the suite to Linux. I just can't help but cheer on the sounds against Stockholm syndrome. So much of these "it doesn't work on Linux" is just the company intentionally trying to prohibit integration with open systems (looking at you HDMI forum). In the end I agree, though, when giving advice, it's best not to assume the "only gaming" use case.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah don't get me started on Adobe. But I guess I should thank them for opening my eyes to exactly how bad SaaS really is with their ransomware. Sorry, I mean Creative Cloud subscriptions. Thanks to them I'm trying to move to FOSS as much as possible, but when you're talking about alternatives for advanced top tier commercial software, and sometimes hardware... It's a barren landscape thus far. And I'm putting a hopeful emphasis on thus far.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 3 months ago

Wow. Locking up a Cloud really is ransomware when you look at it like that.