What Microsoft’s Borking of Grub Says About Redmond’s ‘Love’ of Linux

FOSS Force ^ | 27 August 2024 | Christine Hall

[Bikkuri]

For Photoshop, you should try installing through (and using) Lutris.
Runs better on Linux for me (at least through the last 2 PCs I built).
(Lutris is a linux gaming platform easing the use of WINE.. but you can also install pretty much install anything.)

(You also have the option to change to whichever version of WINE you are running it through, which comes in handy if one version is giving you troubles, just try another (older) version.)

[Openurmind]

“For a few games I can’t run on Linux”

Sorry to laugh... But that is like saying you can’t live without a lying cheating abusive wife because of that one good casserole she makes. lol

[ShadowAce]

You can try DistroWatch. On the right side of the page is a ranking of distros based on number of page hits.

I would think any of the top 10-15 would be a good choice for someone learning.

My personal preference is a Red Hat/Fedora variant. I use Red Hat at work and find it easy to use and very powerful when you need that power.

However, a lot of people seem to like the Debian variants (Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS, etc).

Frankly, if all you will be doing is surfing and email, it doesn't really matter which one you get, as the differences lurk beneath that browser surface.

LibreOffice is the leading Office replacement on Linux. I use it myself, and Office-using co-workers can't tell the difference.

[Bob434]

Not sure if it Wil, do the same, but in vm, I was able to get photoshop up and running, but it changed some functions so ehow, functions I had come to rely on in photoshop. Some or most of it ran ok, but some things were different, and didn’t work well

I’ll check out that lutris though- sounds like it might fit the bill. I’d rather, much rather run photoshop from within Linux

[RinaseaofDs]

Bless you sir.

[Bikkuri]

Photoshop ran very smooth on my side..

After playing around with Lutris for a bit, it becomes second nature ;)

[Bob434]

Thanks, I will give it a try.

[dayglored]

Windows Loves Linux (What?) ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!

[steve86]

Lutris sounds very similar to Steam for Linux minus the proprietary stuff.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, but he has never changed. His father was a eugenics proponent.

[rarestia]

But to say he has any control of Microsoft is disingenuous, at best.

I don’t agree with the man, his politics, or his influence, but Microsoft forged ahead without him for over a decade now. Everything they’re doing is not because of him.

[Still Thinking]

After the Windows update was applied, an untold number of Windows’ dual booters were unable to boot Linux, but instead were served the scary and cryptic error message: “Something has gone seriously wrong.”

Truth in advertising (unintentional)

[Paal Gulli]

"...Last week it became clear to me that although Microsoft has “loved” Linux for more than a decade now,...

Well more than a decade. How long did they use Linux file servers and web servers?

And that abortion they call "User Access Control" (UAC) is a ham-fisted attempt to implement the same level of easy, sophisticated file-level security *NIX has had since forever.

Remember WinNT, when the file system security was such crap that you could block user access to a directory, but if you knew the absolute path to any file in that directory, you still could copy/edit/delete it?

UAC was introduced in Vista (pardon my French) and four generations later, it's still as big a disaster in Win10. That's the biggest reason the only Windows in my house is Win10 Ameliorated. It was built without UAC (or Cortana, Guardian, authenticity verification, etc) in the installation media.

[tanstaafl.72555]

Wow. That was absolutely PERFECT. Great find!