Eh. Home users often don’t even pay for their licenses.
Selling windows licenses to other businesses has always been how windows made most of its money. I don’t even want to think of how much work it would be to get hexagenarian office workers to switch to Ubuntu (or any other flavor of linux, frankly). That’s not a dig on Linux, it’s just that trying to switch to any other operating system would be so painful that MS could ask basically any price and companies would pay it.
The gaming/home user space may well continue to slide toward Linux, and I hope it does. But making inroads to the corporate desktop is the real challenge.
Microsoft isn’t terrified. The current CEO doesn’t give a shit about gaming. It’s foolish though — gaming is the “Trojan horse” that got people hooked on DoS/Windows. It’ll be someone else’s as Microsoft drops the ball.
Can confirm; I would have switched 20 years ago. Unfortunately I won’t drop the games I otherwise love to play, and most of them either have kernel level AC (a whole can of worms on its own) or are just not playable on any distro.
I’m not sure they should be… most of Microsoft’s income comes from business. O365 and oem keys on all the laptops sold to companies heavily outweigh gamers home systems.
i know more folks who are entirely disconnected from the office ecosystem than i do folks who use even a single office product. google ate office’s lunch like a decade ago, i reckon that was at least part of the reason microsoft switched over to the subscription model.
i wouldn’t be surprised if their market share of office apps has shrunk by ~50% in the past 10 years. they’re trying to pull an adobe, but in contrast adobe at least had some killer apps in their suite. office hasn’t brought anything to the table what wasn’t already there in AGES.
A lot of the reasoning for using MS products in businesses is that people are used to them from home.
So the workers run Windows computers with MS Office because that is what they know since childhood because at home there was a Windows computer with MS Office.
This wont take immediate effect. But it can erode the basis for MS in the long run. Especially as they are pulling the stunts with Win11 and price gouging on O365 licences.
I switched to linux last year. Buying a new computer without OEM Windows licencse was 200 € cheaper. And O365 doing everything as a web app also means you dont need to run Windows to run MS Office anymore.
Meanwhile Steam is pushing compatability for games and sooner or later businesses will consider switching to a linux distro and run their Windows software in a compatability environment, as well as more and more software producers will work on compatability or even native.
This will take time, but MS arrogance will be its downfall.
I remember how hype and new it was that I could buy Sea of Thieves on the Windows Store and it just worked like with Steam.
There was a time where Microsoft cared about having the PC gamer audience.
But you’re right, they really don’t care about that space anymore. I guess we’ll see if their priorities change if enough people start swapping to linux for their gaming PCs
Valve hat zumindest echt so ein bisschen eine Marktlücke etabliert. Und ich kann mir schon gut vorstellen, dass einige Leute gerne den Tower-PC einmotten, wenn sie mit einem Handheld ähnliche Spiele spielen können. Für viele Anwender reicht ja mittlerweile ein Browser und das Handy, um die allermeisten Sachen zu machen.
If someone could finally find a way to run Adobe software on Linux please
Thanks. I use GIMP a lot for small things but without proper non-destructive editing it will never be a serious alternative to Photoshop, unfortunately. Also I rarely use Photoshop, mostly Lightroom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm51xZHZI6g
Not what you asked for but this might be interesting!
Sorry but I can’t watch that video for more than a few seconds, what a horrible way to try and get a point across.
There is no good alternative to Lightroom for me so I’ll stick with it for now. May well be different for video software.
If enough people switch to Linux, Adobe themselves will find a way
But what do I do until then
I guess use linux with alternatives and if you need it for work or sth. dual boot.
Wait gibt es einen Grund, dass alle auf der !zocken@feddit.org community englisch sprechen?
Hatte nicht gesehen in welcher Community ich bin und der Artikel war auf Englisch ;)
Die Alternativen sind leider nicht mal ansatzweise gleichwertig. Ich nutze sehr viel Lightroom und möchte darauf nicht verzichten. Darktable kann auch viel, ist aber insbesondere im Hinblick auf Usability einfach deutlich schlechter. Und hab keine Lust immer mit Dual Boot zu hantieren, das ist einfach zu nervig.
Die of old age because people ain’t switching to Linux
I got Illustrator 2022 and Photoshop 2020 to run on wine. Only the “patched” versions, though.
Do you have a guide for that? Just some pirated copy with wine? Or is there something more difficult involved?
I used the m0nkrus versions, installed them on Windows (because his installer doesn’t work in wine) and copied these folders into my wineprefix:
C:\Program Files\Adobe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe C:\Program Files(x86)\Adobe C:\Program Files(x86)\Common Files\Adobe C:\ProgramData\Adobe C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Local\Adobe C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming\AdobeThen I used winetricks to install these dependencies:
winetricks vcrun2022 vkd3d dxvk atmlib corefonts gdiplus allfonts fontsmooth=rgbIf it crashes often, disable GPU acceleration in the settings. Photoshop just works, but Illustrator needs a patch applied to wine, otherwise the GUI has major graphical errors and you also need to add a DLL override for msxml3.dll and set it to “native, builtin”.
Illustrator also needs these files copied and renamed in its own directory:
icuin73.dll => icuin.dll icuuc73.dll => icuuc.dllAccording to this result, Photoshop CC 2023 seems to run now, too.
