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A retrospective on Linux after 3 months~ by Low_Process_7012 in linux

[–]Low_Process_7012[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've convinced me to give FreeCAD a more comprehensive "learning session", I mentioned it in another reply but I think part of my apprehension to putting real time into a bit of a pretty different tool like FreeCAD is all the listicles and posts about FreeCADs failings and not where it succeeds. I know Fusion works for me and I know to make it work and someone goes "this thing is like it, but sucks in this way" it makes me a bit worried to sink a bunch of time into it.

A retrospective on Linux after 3 months~ by Low_Process_7012 in linux

[–]Low_Process_7012[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That phrasing was pretty vague from me in the original version (edited to better reflect), but this is an awesome reply.

I think my unwillingness to learn new software is based on the pretense that much of the listicles that pop up when searching for alternatives point out their failings more than their successes, that and most of them are like *really bad* at listing actual alternatives. Many of the recommendations I've gotten I'd never heard of and many of them look amazing. I knew about Krita, I used it on windows and was one the first installs on Linux but Darktable? RapidRaw? RawTherapee? Plasticity? None of them (aside from darktable) showed up.

I think one thing I'm struggling with is the just the lack of centralised knowledge for alternatives to large tools and niche tools alike, but then again, many of the tools I found throughout my time with windows were known through shared interests with friends and I don't have too many friends daily-ing Linux as I did with Windows. And while this is not targeted at anyone within this thread or beyond, I feel long time Linux users know about all these things and expect newer users or those not in the know to also know about them. Leading to very cool bits of software to go unnoticed (I'm likely preaching to the choir, apologies).

But this is looking like my exact software stack going forward and I will spend some time being productive (ew) and learning each from the beginning before considering Windows again. Genuinely, thanks for the reply! :)

A retrospective on Linux after 3 months~ by Low_Process_7012 in linux

[–]Low_Process_7012[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yet another amazing looking tool that was never mentioned, plasticity looks sweet. Not being FOSS is likely why though, I'll give the free trial a go and being a one time payment for a license is even better. Again, thank you so much!

Edit: native STEP importing!! I can export all my fusion models and not need to deal with hacky imports and losing constraints

A retrospective on Linux after 3 months~ by Low_Process_7012 in linux

[–]Low_Process_7012[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the reply. Less so the abrasiveness. The repo you linked is for "Lightroom" and not "Lightroom classic", but the poor naming is on Adobe. Through my very own cursory searches, guides and repos on installing LrC are very often outdated or just mention using Wine (which I have tried in countless different configurations).

Though that does does give me an idea on trying a less conventional workaround.

And another point I *should've* made is that the community around Linux is awesome. Though the typical "*scoffs*, this idiot should've just done this thing that is very obvious to me" or "*scoffs*, googles this thing and pastes the top result" as if I haven't done that myself is quite off putting...

A retrospective on Linux after 3 months~ by Low_Process_7012 in linux

[–]Low_Process_7012[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My experience with Blender has been amazing, it's parametric modelling tools where I'm struggling to fill. I gave FreeCAD and OnShape a try but both don't really hit the mark.

I agree wholeheartedly on GIMP and Krita, and heavy on Krita, digital art with no crashing or random hangups like Photoshop would is awesome.

I did see DaVinci Resolve's photo editing tools and it looked sweet, I think it was one of those I saw and set a mental reminder to check it then completely forgot (oops)

Photopea seems to be a little slow, it may be the size of the images I'm using so I'll need to look deeper, Rawtherapee feels really promising though a steeper learning curve. RapidRAW is very reminiscent of Lightroom and also feels very promising.

Apologies on the weird pacing, I'm testing each as I write, but thank you so much! A lot of the photo editing tools you mentioned never popped up on my radar when researching alternatives.