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shubhadeepb
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In a recent venture, I had to use an office suite and a photo editing software regularly. As a Linux user, I tried using Libreoffice and gimp. But that was just a mess. My other project partners were using MS office. Format, image alignments, fonts.. everything was messed up. Same happened wih the gimp. I know Photoshop, learnt while studying. Gimp was just no match to that. I was forced to go back to Windows. And I was surprised that the latest MS office and Adobe Creative Cloud were excellent. MS office was smoother and faster than Libreoffice.

I love linux. I have tried all the major distros and I love all of them. But I would still say that Linux is not the best option for day to day non-dev tasks. Whatever Richard Stallman and the Open Source Community say, Linux lack good softwares, at least some good document, photo, audio and video editing softwares.

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  • 4
    7y
    I agree to that.
    Linux on desktop is really not that great
  • 4
    7y
    Unfortunately true. I love digging into tech stuff as much as the next girl, but come on. I want to use what works and what won’t be a pain in the ass whenever I want something done in the easiest and quickest way possible.
  • 0
    7y
    Its most likely due to them not using .docx format that is standardized for many editors. They generally should do that anyways, as it gives no drawbacks. For gimp, yeah. Its a mess
  • 1
    7y
    @Linux I think to change the scenario the Linux Foundation need a change. They must welcome non-free softwares too and insist more hardware manufacturers to pre-install Linux distributions. Linux users usually have a stigma associated with the non-free softwares (I have it too). But we should move on. We must understand that no one going to make a software like Adobe Photoshop or illustrator for free.
  • 0
    7y
    @GMR516 yes! And some simple things become too much difficult (or atleast time consuming) in Linux.

    For example, Ubuntu or any Debian based system doesn't come with my laptop's Bluetooth driver by default. I need to rebuild the driver from source everytime I format my laptop.
  • 0
    7y
    @shubhadeepb not exactly true, we have Blender, but it is indeed very rare for a big software to be free
  • 0
    7y
    @Milenchy how many people use blender compared to Adobe suite?
  • 0
    7y
    @Linux they are used for different things? All I'm saying is for a free open source modeling software, Blender is more feature packed (has sculpting capabilities built in) and does a lot of things better than Maya or 3DS Max, which are commercial products and cost a lot of money
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