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.
Pop Shop is good, their updates are great and don’t break the system like a lot of other distros, and their version of Gnome is polished and sleek.
Praising Pop!_OS for their update process rings really hollow given they apparently don’t run an apt update when launching the Pop!_Shop. Remember when Linus Sebastian borked X11 trying to install Steam? That issue with Steam had been detected and fixed before that happened, but for some reason Pop!_Shop was trying to pull from an outdated apt cache. That and I can tell you from personal experience the way you check for updates is you open the “Installed” tab and…wait. Such Apple, very bullshit. Not borking things by applying updates is more of a factor of being a Debian descendant and using APT rather than Pacman.
Pop!_OS’ version of Gnome is very trendily themed but it’s still Gnome, the user interface that hates interfacing with users. Every time I saw someone who tried and then immediately gave up on Linux saying something like “Linux is worthless you can’t even rename a file” I’m like “You used Gnome didn’t you?” Gnome is the second most user hostile UI I’m aware of after the FCC’s website.
To each their own, I suppose. I love Gnome. It’s my favorite DE across any OS.