You don’t know what you’re talking about.

I guess you’re right, because I’ve never worked as an IT admin, or had the policy at multiple companies I’ve worked at changed to allow Linux devices for devs.

Taking Immich as an example, there’s a lot of heavy lifting happening there behind the scenes in external libraries that are not written in JS.

Real programmers are language agnostic

Thought terminating sentence.

In an ideal world, id love a debian thinkpad or framework

Then make your world ideal. Pester your boss or the IT guys with articles showing how Linux is better than Windows at security or dev work. Show them how Linux isn’t prone to the same security concerns. Show them articles or examples about how you could do your work with a Linux install.

And not all anti-cheat is malware. I was referring to the kernel level anti-cheats.

As of now, you have to make an effort to find a game that won’t work through Proton, aside from games with malware (anti-cheat).

they’re cheap fucks.

This is also the issue with most tech job postings. I got this one job offer, entirely unsolicited from my end, to move across the country to Manitoba to a small town. They were going to offer up to $5000 moving costs. And the job was for a full stack developer. The salary? $42k Canadian.

I emailed them back telling them in blunt terms that their offer is insulting and far too low for any developer role.

I thought that guy AL Jippity was just doing a ton of work. Like a 10,000x dev.

Uh-oh. I have three monitors, and one of them is a 43" 4k TV.

I love little mistakes like that

I didn’t even catch that the first time. But what should we expect from garbage software?

Oh right! I forgot about that project. I tested it out when I was first released and I liked it. I just haven’t bothered with it in many years as there was nothing Windows only that I needed (outside of games, and Proton handles that).

Back in the day I would have wanted Photoshop, but everything I need can be done with GIMP, Krita, or Photopea. And I used Kdenlive or DaVinci Resolve for video editing.

For example I doubt Adobe will support any bugs I get using Lightroom with that tool, but I could probably deal with it.

You should have near native performance minus GPU acceleration. But even then there are solutions.

VirtGL is a project I’ve been keeping my eye on. It’s usable now but only in certain configs.

of course I mean acrobat. Please do list an alternative (that works on linux) that has Adobe Sign or something like that.

Well, Adobe Sign is a cloud based offering, which is distinct from Acrobat itself. And it can only work as a cloud offering because they need to ensure audit trails for compliance reasons. In that regard there’s DocuSign which is also cloud based. But as for Acrobat, there’s Xodo, OnlyOffice, and LibreOffice.

are you just reading off wikipedia? Drools was created by Red Hat

No I wasn’t, but I wasn’t aware that Red Hat developed it.

Excel is the only one that works properly. I’m a drools expert. I’ve been working in drools for 15+ years. There are issues with using drools with anything other than excel. Of course you can use CSV but you lose a lot of functionality in the process. I’m telling you this as someone that has tried to get around these things and use alternatives for years.

Ok, fair. I have limited experience with it, but in the time that I did work with it, it seemed fine.

smh. jboss is not the same thing as drools.

You’re right, I was referring to JBoss BRMS. It’s been a long time since I’ve touched it, over 10 years ago.

Maybe you didn’t come across the bugs I have

Clearly not, because as I mentioned, the project I was working on that used it switched to a different system. And no, I don’t remember which.

Some software is absolutely necessary for businesses and there is no other alternative. Linux radicals seem to think that there’s always a way around it. But there isn’t.

And that is fair. I always tell people to use the best tool for the job, and sometimes the best tool is the one they know how to use best. So if it’s Windows, then so be it.

I think it’s more that enterprises want support and they want to trust other companies. You do not get that with linux.

Sure you do. There are many companies with commercial offerings that support Linux.

give me an alternative to Adobe Sign that works on linux.

You can actually use the web version of Adobe Sign from any OS. I know that’s not what you were asking, but it’s still a workable solution.

I’m not sure why you’re bringing up vfx houses. Adobe doesn’t have any vfx software. Their major products are Acrobat, Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator.

And After Effects.

https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/aftereffects/vfx-visual-effects.html

They literally call it VFX software. And that is what it is. And Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator all fall into the VFX category because you would utilize all of them in a VFX workflow.

Anyways, I brought it up because that’s generally what people refer to when they mention Adobe when talking about Linux compatibility.

I’m going to look at RAWTherapee though and see how it does.

I know someone that does professional photography and uses Linux. They say they love RAWTherapee.

Games were once created by gamers

This is the biggest issue. I tend to focus on Indie games lately. There’s the odd bigger game that I’ll pay for, but they are few and far between.

You asked what enterprise software.

You’re right, I did. But the question was in relation to things that prevent adoption to Linux. Excel isn’t one of them, as Office 365 is available as a web version, but there are also many entirely compatible alternatives.

As for Adobe, I don’t know what software of theirs is used by enterprises. Unless you mean Acrobat, which again there are better alternatives that target the enterprise. I actually haven’t worked at a company that’s used Adobe products in over 10 years.

Using Drools rules, software written by Red Hat, you are unable to create drools decision tables that work properly with Kogito (another software written by red hat) with anything other than Excel. That includes LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

Drools is developed and maintained by the Apache Foundation. It’s FOSS software (Free and Open Source Software). Red Hat is the main sponsor of the project and the flagship product using Drools is Red Hat Decision Manager (formerly JBoss).

From the Drools docs:

Drools supports managing rules in a spreadsheet format. Supported formats are Excel (XLS), and CSV, which means that a variety of spreadsheet programs (such as Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice.org Calc amongst others) can be utilized.

Software devs use it

I am a software dev, and I’ve used JBoss in the past. I can promise you that it’s not limited to Excel in the least. In fact, Drools isn’t even primarily designed for spreadsheets, and it’s generally deployed on Linux servers.

As it is right now I ask you to find a single enterprise company that doesn’t have either of those in use on their systems somewhere.

This is a valid point, but not because they can’t operate without them. It’s almost always because of ignorance of better alternatives, upper management comfort zone, and billions of dollars of marketing from Microsoft and Adobe for over 20 years.

And I’m not sure what you’re talking about in regards to “studios”.

Studios as in Hollywood studios and VFX Houses. Some of them might use Adobe stuff here and there, but the “serious” stuff isn’t done with Adobe.

Adobe is a garbage company. Big studios don’t use Adobe crap. And the alternatives are better anyways.

Excel also has alternatives. LibreOffice and even Google Sheets if you don’t mind Google.

And before you say LibreOffice isn’t good enough, take a look at all the European governments that have switched over to LibreOffice. I use it regularly at my company where everyone else uses Office 365, and no one has ever noticed. Compatibility with Excel is stellar. In fact, my wife uses Office 365 at her company and she’s daily running into issues with it. Either some outage, or some weird bug that’s been a complaint in the Microsoft support forums for years, or some other issue.

Whereas I never have any issues with LibreOffice.

No good enterprise management

There’s Kolide and Intune.

Doesn’t run enterprise software.

Like what?

It even uploads all your files and deletes the local copies for you!

Saying the chance of something going sideways is smaller than on Windows isn’t saying much

True. I’ll grant you that.

I’ll pick a distro that’s stable by default

Arch isn’t “unstable” by any means. I’ve been running Arch EndeavourOS as my desktop distro that I develop on for years and it’s entirely reliable. Now I personally wouldn’t run Arch on any of my distros (I go with either Debian or NixOS), but there are people who do it and it works fine.

Edit: I said “Arch” but I meant EndeavourOS, which is Arch with some QoL improvements.

But if my client is angry and my boss is breathing down my neck, and I can’t work because a thing isn’t thing-a’lating, a support path is essential.

Arch is still stable enough for that. The chances of something going sideways is smaller on Arch than on Windows. And unless you’re a medium to large company paying Microsoft for enterprise support, you’re going to be stuck with forums for community help with Windows.