This question is for Linux/BSD users. Whisch distro are

>>56077132
Ubuntu LTS with Xfce desktop environment

GIMP

stopped there lol

>>56077132

I use Linux Mint 18 and I want to say a bit about Linux Alternatives. I think the only Blender and Lightworks(maybe GIMP ? but I hate its interface) are worthwhile to use as alternatives,rest are shit compared to native windows apps. Besides they aren't industrial standards and nobody knows about it.

>>56077132
OS X
(Hackintosh)

I use KDE Neon myself. Comfy af.

>>56077149
Just use Xubuntu.

Ubuntu MATE at the moment. I can never settle though so probably putting something else on soon.

>>56077132
>GIMP

It perfectly potrays the cons of open source.

>>56077132
Arch Linux

I don't recommend it unless you're a Linux wizard or unemployed. I got it set up on my PC when I was in the latter category. I worked my way into the former category before getting a job, so it's still pretty awesome for me.

That said, there are very few people I'd recommend it to in real life. I use Fedora at work, and that's what I'd usually recommend for people.

>>56077177
Same lol

>>56077323
This is true.

Arch is a hobbyist distro, you will have to tinker with it, it may break, everything may not work, but I enjoy all of that.

For real life, Fedora, Debian, or Ubuntu are good choices.

>>56077132
>Using a server OS on the desktop
Kek

>>56077132
Unironically Gentoo

>>56077132
Lightworks is closed source software with a proprietary license.

>>56077177
Most of the time GIMP is good enough. Editing images is not my profession though.

>>56077201
There's literally no benefit from using Xubuntu unless you have deep hatred for Unity or run 10 years old hardware.

>>56077444
>not sandboxing botnet OS
kek

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>>56077387
>Arch is a hobbyist distro, you will have to tinker with it, it may break, everything may not work

I've been using Arch for a year now and have yet to have anything break that wasn't my fault or easily fixed. Maybe it's a case of pic related.

Even so, I'd be 100% comfortable using Arch on my work computer. The only reason I don't is because my coworkers all use Fedora, and I need to make sure the tools I write work for them.

OpenBSD

>>56077323
Yeah I had to set aside like six hours to get arch linux usable. I'm still on the neetbucks though. Some days I spend all day messing around with linux on various machines I have.

>>56077132
I unironically use Gentoo. I also use it on my laptop and my raspberry pi (compiling shit with distcc though). It's fun.

>>56077132

>Don't make special effects
>Photoshop CS2 on WINE
>I do basic video editing and title cards on the command line with imagemagick and FFmpeg
>Darktable also I'm not a pro photographer so I barely ever use it
>Ghostscript, inkscape, yEd
>Don't do 3d modelling
>libreoffice 5 with plugins, LaTeX, Google docs
>I use solidworks on Windows on my Uni's computers

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I use kali as my main cause I am a b0ss.

>>56077611
I lived on neetbux for a while, but now I'm working in an R&D lab on a linux-based network switch OS.

I'm doing pretty much the same exact thing I did as a NEET except I get a nicer computer, as many screens as I want, and free snacks. It's pretty great.

>>56077193
>wanting to actually use Mac OS

Lubuntu 16.04 LTS

Supposedly, 16.10 is migrating to LXQt, but that is a rumour.

>>56077132
I have this windows 7 pc literally just to use my pirated adobe produx and vegas. Not a youtuber but I make my own media.

Thinking about getting a L Thinkpad and another machine both just for ganoopluslinux.

>>56077685
>implying there's any reason not to
Hating something just because it's commonly hated is extremely fucking retarded

>>56077132
Xubuntu and FreeBSD

>>56077132
>saving that picture as jpg

Hurrr durrr

Debian boi

>>56077132
Arch with Openbox. Suits my needs.

>>56077132
>OpenSCAD
isn't that 2D?

>>56077132
Arch Linux. It's overhyped, hard to install the first time, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty simple.

Fedora

>>56077132
Manjaro

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>>56077132
>autocad
>openscad
for 2d librecad is good, I've never heard of openscad but from the screenshots looks pretty lacking.

>"GIMP is good" meme
Can we stop this? Any option is better than gimp.
Krita, Wine and Photoshop, a box of old crayons.

>>56077941
>>56078048
OpenScad is actually pretty good but only fits a niche. It's more of a programming language than a regular cad tool. I created a 3D keyboard prototype with it and I liked it. Lets you use your favorite text editor and everything. Pretty cool for programmers who don't wnt to learn a complex GUI.

People who use osx why not just use darwin

Anons!, i had been using Mint for some months now, but i want to get deeper. Which distro should i use if i want stability, hardware compatibility and to learn more about Linux?, i had been thinking about getting Fedora or Arch. I will use it in a VM for a couple of months first.

>>56077685
>not wanting to use the Unix OS that ACTUALLY WORKS

>>56078100
Fedora is good for being productive in, it gets regular kernel updates and package updates. It's also used by torvalds and is supported by a real company

>>56078100
>stability, hardware compatibility and to learn more about Linux
Debian or Gentoo.

For adobe light room I recommending darktable, it's look alike old lightroom version 2 & 3.

http://www.darktable.org

>>56078115
Ubuntu works just fine, unless your a dumb faggot.

>>56077195
I use neon on my laptop and can confirm that it's pretty good.

>>56078164
>>56078171
thanks

>>56077132
LFS and Gentoo on my thinkpad, Fedora on my Desktop

>>56078067
You know, I was looking at Gimp as alternative to Photoshop and it made me realize that the people who program GIMP probably never use it.
It's so fucking annoying to use for basic tasks that had to give up in like 10 minutes and now I'm using photoshop 7 instead. A copy of which I've had for over a decade. It surprisingly still works in Windows 10 although it errors out if you try to save to a drive bigger than 1 TB.

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>>56079233
I've always heard people complain about gimp but whenever I use it it seems just fine. What does Photoshop do that gimp doesn't?

>>56079536
Like for example, if you copy some thing and open a new image it'll be exactly the size of what you just copied
maybe GIMP has a setting for that, but that seems a no-brainer setting to be on by default.

It's not that photoshop does anything that Gimp doesn't do, it's that GIMP is PAINFUL to use. The user interface is fucking trash.

arch with gnome pretty comfy :^)

>>56077685
>DAE hate le OS X
I'm sorry you hate an OS that has both a fuckton of useful features and software ubiquity.

>>56077132

Notice how all the alternatives in that image are vastly inferior to the proprietary software they imitate. Sad.

>>56077132
Arch on both of my Laptop and Home Server

>>56078227
1. not unix (pedantic i know)
2. not enough proprietary software

>>56079536
The UI is horrible. Absolutely dreadful.
And on top of not having some of the advanced features Photoshop has, some of the features it does have actively make it more frustrating to use and can't be turned off.
For example, there's a thing called "Layer boundaries" where you can't draw outside of. Let's say I start drawing something, but then I want to move everything over to have more room on the side. This moves the layer boundary, and now I have even less space to draw until I manually resize the boundary.
In Photoshop there are no issues anywhere near this stupid.

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>>56077132
We don't describe free software as an “alternative” to proprietary, because that word presumes all the “alternatives” are legitimate and each additional one makes users better off. In effect, it assumes that free software ought to coexist with software that does not respect users' freedom.

We believe that distribution as free software is the only ethical way to make software available for others to use. The other methods, nonfree software and Service as a Software Substitute subjugate their users. We do not think it is good to offer users those “alternatives” to free software.

>>56079870

This absurd obsession with freedom is extremely infantile.

>>56077685
>not wanting to use the one Unix that can run AutoCAD, FL Studio, Office and Photoshop

>>56077132
OpenSUSE master race!

>>56079536
>hardware accelerated rendering
>3D
>proper CMYK support
>lots of third-party plugins

>>56077941
FreeCAD is better anyway

Ubuntu minimal with i3

>>56077177
Once you learn GIMP's disastrous GUI, it works well enough for non-professional work.

Slow as fuck to start up though. I generally use ImageMagick if I just need to change encoding or scale images, because of the startup time.
>>56077461
I certainly developed a deep hatred for Unity after I noticed fucking ads in my start menu

>>56077132
Lightweights is shit

Natron is just what the fuck

>>56081619
>Lightweights
what?

>>56081670
Lightworks

Linux sucks. Everyone knows that something offered for free can never be as good as something that costs money. Why? If if truly is good, why would it be free?

>>56081597
They removed the "ads" by default.

>>56081873
>capitalistic scum at it's best

>>56081873
if you've ever had sex with someone who you like, then go fuck a whore. and make honest comparison.

>>56082228
>if you've ever had sex
Did you forget where you are? :^)

>>56082174
Fuck off commie faggot

>>56082376
Fuck off capitalist faggot

>>56077132
are people unironically using dream weaver?

>>56077132

I changed my toaster and now use vanilla Ubuntu with Unity.

It's fine and I was a long time user of Ubuntu with LXDE.

>>56077177
>>56077335
>>56081597
>le professional Photoshop™ artisans

>>56082228
> he thinks romantic sex is free
Ever wonder why poor fat asses don't get laid?
E X C H A N G E O F V A L U E

Gentoo at the moment, Debian on my server.

Do people really still use Adobe stuff aside from Photoshop/AE/Premiere now? Dreamweaver is hilariously bad.

>>56077132
Arch with bspwm

>>56086060
Dreamweaver was never good, it became even shittier after webpages stopped being static html files.

>spend countless hours troubleshooting basic shit
Shave your beard and just use mint

>>56086133
If it's basic shit and you're spending hours troubleshooting it, that's a (you) issue.

>>56077444
>le linux is only good for servers meme

>>56078227
this

Fedora on my desktop, openSUSE on the Thinkpad.

Any alternatives to solidworks?

>>56077177
This lmao

>>56086255
>implying something being a meme makes it wrong

Linux is a fucking horrible desktop OS.

>>56077132
I'd like to advocate free software, but lets be honest, most of those Linux alternatives are shit compared to their Windows counterparts. LibreOffice, Inkscape and Gimp are all fucking awful.

>>56086462
I think it depends what you're doing with it. A variation of Ubuntu or Mint is probably a great choice for a netbook OS or something for older people and/or normies to read email, browse the internet, go on facebook and print out important shit. It does all those things just as well and just as easily as Windows does, only its free and might work better on older hardware, depending on the DE.

Of course, it's also good as a server OS, and is a competent OS for software development.

But as a daily desktop OS for more than just light usage and/or development, yeah, it's pretty bad.

I have Xubuntu and Windows 7 but I'll usually be on Windows 7 because I can get work done there better. Xubuntu is comfy and I have no issues with it, but when I'm on Linux I get distracted seeing what I can do with it and trying to make things work juuuust right for my purposes that I never actually get any real work done.

>>56077210
Same, but I'm really liking it so far.

If I change it will only be because I like trying new things, not because I didn't like Ubuntu MATE

>>56088586
You forgot to mention the worst of the lot.

Blender.

Holy shit is it bad.

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>>56077132
>comparing autoscat to autocad

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Friendly reminder that GIMP in 2016 is actually good

>>56088702
does it have pantone colors yet?

>>56088674
Holy shit you are retarded

>>56088720
"Pantone asserts that their lists of color numbers and pigment values are the intellectual property of Pantone, and free use of the list is not allowed."

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>>56088778
weeew
Pretty sure I can't use it then. Some of us are professionals, you know :^)

>>56086273
How are you liking zypper? Just installed openSUSE myself on my T420

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>>56088796
if using proprietary software is part of being a professional I don't want to be a professional

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>>56077149
>xfeces

Enjoy your desktop aesthetics straight from the year 2003.

>>56077132
Gentoo Hardened on my home PC
Ubuntu LTS on my VPS
SailfishOS on my phone

Gentoo, i love it!

>>56088702
>you can change the theme, that makes it good
yeah, nah. Tell me when they have proper full range color management, nondestructive text transformations, opengl acceleration, high-depth support, etc.

>>56077132
Waiting for Elementary OS Loki.

>>56088702
>Changed its colour theme to match photoshop
>oh look it's as good as photoshop now!
:^)

>>56088702
why does the website only want me to download the 2.8 version?

>>56079592
ctrl-shift-v

>>56077132
>Lightworks
not OpenShot

>>56089547
I'm interested in a free video editing alternative to Vegas and Premiere. What's the difference between Lightworks and OpenShot?

>>56079870
You are completely fuckin retarded.

>>56077132
Wow a serious post on /g/ where are the MUH GAYMS posts?

>>56088908
>SailfishOS
I've never heard of this, but I hope that the name is meant to mock "flagship". If so, genius

>>56090530
I think it's also a play on Shellfish and the fact that Jolla has a naval theme going with all of their names and terms

>>56090530
>>56090554
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish

How disappointing

>tfw Mint has become progressively shittier over the years
Ubuntu with Cinnamon is what I'm gonna try out now.

>>56077387
fedora is literally shit

There will never be a GNU/Linux alternative to Adobe InDesign for actual professional design work q__q

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>GIMP

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>>56091296
Scribus?

https://www.scribus.net/

Have you seen GIMP's roadmap? It's not even going to start being any good until version 3.2, when they'll finally start putting in non-destructive editing features already found in Photoshop, which are crucial for professional work.

http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap

>>56079971
under upboated comment

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>>56077132
Debian (and Debian-based) are best because it's the eldest and most popular of distros, meaning it has staying power and more support in general.

Debian over Ubuntu for mostly the same reasons I chose Windows 7 over 8/10:
- better philosophy
- less bloat
- more stable and reliable

I don't care if it's slightly less convenient in some ways for those benefits.

UBUNTU because it's the ONLY WORTHWHILE DESKTOP DISTRO. debian stable is a joke from a security perspective seeing how you run years old pdf readers etc. and nobody is actually backporting every patch with possible security relevance.

>>56092516
gimp is more than sophisticated enough for making fakes of popular us celebs riding bbc. i dont really see any applications for photoshop beyond that.

>>56077177
Gimp isn't as shit as 10 years ago, but still nowhere near Photoshops capabilities, but for simple stuff, it's okay

>>56095556
ps. use krita or mypaint for drawingf

>>56095510
Most people (AFAIK) running it for a desktop upgrade to Debian Testing or Sid, so that it's more or less a rolling release.

>nobody is actually backporting every patch with possible security relevance
Nice conjecture, but they have a security team who deal with security updates.
https://www.debian.org/security/faq#handling

>>56095556
I use it for designing posters and other graphics for media.

>>56077132
Devuan.

Big repository without the memery and fuckery of Debian.

>>56095682
Why don't you like systemd?

>>56095699
Every time someone say why, a shill starts trolling.

Lets just say all those memes people say about systemd are not memes.

>>56095611
yeah im well aware you dumbos think the security team is actually doing everything they claim to even in the desktop side of things, but it just aint the case buddy

>>56095816
Have you had a bad experience yourself with its security? Do you have any evidence beyond conjecture and accusations? Are you just shit-talking?

What is your distro of choice?

I'm currently using Pantheon (elementary OS). I don't want to fiddle to much with my OS in terms of ricing.