Yo linux team, i would love some advice.

I’m pretty mad at windows, 11 keeps getting worse and worse and I pretty done with Bill’s fetishes about bing and ai. Who knows where’s cortana right now…

Anyway, I heard about this new company called Linux and I’m open to try new stuff. I’m a simple guy and just need some basic stuff:

  • graphic stuff: affinity, canva, corel, gimp etc… (no adobe anymore, please don’t ask.)
  • 3d modelling and render: blender, rhino, cinema, keyshot
  • video editing: davinci
  • some little coding in Dart/flutter (i use VS code, I don’t know if this is good or bad)
  • a working file explorer (can’t believe i have to say this)
  • NO FUCKIN ADS
  • NO MF STUPID ASS DISGUSTING ADVERTISING

The tricky part is the laptop, a zenbook duo pro (i9-10/rtx2060), with double touch screens.

I tried ubuntu several years ago but since it wasn’t ready for my use i never went into different distros and their differences. Now unfortunately, ready or not, I need to switch.

Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.

  • SomeLemmyUser
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    7 months ago

    Ah that makes sense. The argument for manjaro is that they are not as vulnerable to easy to find 0days or what?

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      7 months ago

      I have no idea. I think the claim is that as “arch is unstable”, the delay allows them to make sure none of that “wild instability” makes it into Manjaro. But as far as I can tell, no such checking occurs and the delay is just a delay. I got into the habit of putting off updating because more often than not it meant an evening of timeshifting and troubleshooting.

      But arch isn’t really that unstable. On Endeavour (endeavours main repos are just the arch repos, they don’t maintain their own) I update whenever my system notifies me there’s new stuff, and the possibility that my system won’t boot afterwards doesn’t really cross my mind anymore. I still run timeshift, but I haven’t needed it yet.

      In fact, if you really want stability… Unless you need some upcoming security update, bug fix or feature, you can just keep using your system, only installing things when you need them. There’s no real reason to impulsively install updates the second they are available. My system doesn’t even check for updates more than once a week.

      Then, if my system worked yesterday, it will do say today. And unless I decide to change something today, it will do so tomorrow too.

      In that sense even arch’s stability is “customizable” because you can voluntarily reduce how often you risk breaking something, while at the same time running a system with still more recent packages than most other distros.