I've been running linux on my laptop for the past 18 months or so. I have a headless desktop machine running windows that I still connect to regularly because it's just easier. But over time I have managed to do more and more on linux as I learn more or find different programs.

What are your must haves that don't have linux versions available?

[–] sortofblue 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Adobe suite for work and the Affinity suite for myself. I use scrivener too but I'm sure I've seen open source alternatives for that and it keeps everything buried in rtf if I get stuck.

I know there are open source graphics programs available but affinity is the best I've used (much better than Adobe) and the forum posts Ive seen about Wine aren't encouraging.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago

While there are alternatives to many of the suites, I don't think they are comparable.

An option is to dual boot or run windows in a VM. Or like I do, have a separate windows machine that I remote into when I need to do windows stuff.