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.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    31·
    6 months ago

    In my experience, Manjaro breaks all the time.

    Arch doesn’t.

    That said, Debian is great. Probably gonna ditch Ubuntu for just pure Debian on my server.

    • SomeLemmyUser
      2·
      6 months ago

      That’s some nice info. From what I’ve heard manjaro is just arch with things done for you most users would do anyway (Desktop environment setup, package management set up, etc.) But if arch is more stable even if some casual hobby ITler like me installs it I should maybe give it another try at times.

      Didn’t know there was much difference between arch distros, but now that you mention it: steamOS is working flawlessly while being arch could be an argument for your point. It thought this was more because its perfectly configured for the hardware and deck and I seldom need the OS itself outside of steam because I only use it for gaming.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        6 months ago

        Well the deck only gets updates once Valve decides they’re good to go, and it’s immutable so there can’t be edge cases where system packages don’t play nice with something user-installed.

        Something similar is true for arch in general, package updates go out once they are good to go, and more importantly, when something really breaks, the fix comes in fast.

        But manjaro tries to fix something which isn’t broken by delaying arch updates by two weeks, meaning you sometimes gets stuck with broken things, waiting for the fix, or get updates that install versions of things that don’t work together.

        • SomeLemmyUser
          2·
          6 months ago

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

          • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            6 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.