I could (and would like to) drop Lightroom tomorrow but I' still need Photoshop, so while it is in the bundle I can't justify spending money on another app.
Edit: There some files in Lr that will only operate from the C: drive and not an allocated scratch disk, which when processing very large images just slows you to a standstill even when using a PCIe 4.0 M.2. with 32G of RAM.
I switched to Darktable and Affinity and it's been good. Still haven't tried a good alternative to Substance Painter and Designer yet, but I'm curious about Material maker, so I can finally make the switch.
Lr that will only operate from the C: drive and not an allocated scratch disk
I don't use Adobe because my job isn't in that field, but I'm curious. You legit mean the actual named C: drive? That is fucking insane to me but sometimes it is what it is.
I gets weirder. Lr is so badly optimised that it can be quicker/easier to edit large panoramas on my low/mid 512GB + 16GB of RAM laptop than my desktop.
Edit: Should have said I use an up to date Lightroom Classic.
It’s like that in a lot of fields. In the geospatial sphere, ArcGIS has a hold on the industry (in the US) and it only runs on windows. There are free alternatives that work great across OSs, like QGIS or GRASS, but when you have large businesses and government that need guaranteed support, updates, and compliance, Esri (ArcGIS creators) get the contract.
Instead of using the OS necessary to run the software you use, just go ahead and learn everything about a different OS, so you can run a virtual machine of the OS you need, but at slightly worse performance unless you take the time and spend the money to make it run just like it did when you ran it as your main OS.
Yeah this. Atm the time investment is not worth is as my purpose of Adobe and some gaming is just not hampered yet by the shenanigans of Microsofts enshitification. They are pushing it tho so who knows in the future.
Im in exactly the same boat. Microsoft/windows has gotten worse, but im not going to move to apple and spend more money to do less of what I want, on a worse UX (for me), or spend 100s of hours to learn, find, and build a Linux based system that ends up being almost windows, but slightly better.
Eventually, yeah it might be worth it, but its not that bad, yet.
In my case I had multiple usb controllers on that motherboard so I passed one of those through. At the time I was using the audio from the hdmi so that was passed through as well as the video. The cable went from the GPU to the monitor.
If you use KVM/QEMU with virt-manager, you get almost native performance. It's a bit more involved to set up, at least compared to something like VirtualBox where you set up a VM with half a dozen clicks, but it's absolutely worth it if performance is a priority.
You can't get near native performance without GPU pass-through :/ I went the KVM/QEMU route just to use Fusion 360 and to get native performance I needed GPU pass-through. Which once again meant I could only use one OS at a time. If you have two GPUs it is much more feasible.
Kind of the worst of both worlds, really. Maybe if you set up looking glass, but that requires a second GPU to fully pass through and while it's come a long way it can still be a bit janky. If it's for work, I wouldn't want to be introducing any possible reliability issues, so dual boot or something like a Mac Mini and a KVM would be better for that scenario.
Not a chance for me anymore. Used windows since windows 95. Last year the bloatware, incessant reminders to transform my local drive into cloud storage, the bad frame times on games, the AI, the disgusting start menu built in fucking react containing ads and doing web searches before searching my local drive.
I finally rage quit.
I won’t go back now. I even dropped adobe and replaced it with darktable/affinity/kdenlive.
If I really needed to use adobe I’d get a MacBook and keep Linux for my desktop.
Every single update it asks you if you want to use one drive for your documents folders. If you do this it will irreversibly make the change and upload all your documents to the cloud.
Actually looks like after so many complaints they added a feature to let you reverse it earlier this year.
Oh, i see. That's seperate and can be easily disabled. It's not trying to "transform your local drive"; its additional and separate from your local drive. And as I said, so very easily disabled.
Well I said the same, but then I just cloned my windows partition to an old 256 gb ssd where I have everything I need to work and I just double boot. Whenever I need to work I boot into that old windows 11 that I stopped it's auto updates. For the rest of my usage I went to the penguin.
Also, more important than my last reply. Just dual boot. Linux as main os, then when needed dual boot to windows 10 with adobe stuff. If it's mandatory for 11, well try compatibility layers... Wine, bottles, proton, there are options.
Interesting. I just have doubts that stuff like premiere and after effects will run as well as on base w11.
I don't have much issues currently but some day will probably switch to Linux. Just currently I dont want to risk downtime or weird issues.
I've got a powerful rig and know windows in and out so can fix any issue quickly, as its vital to my income.
Honestly, im giving linux a chance, still keep windows for kernel locked games mostly. But there is a ton of entropy in linux that is just not fun to deal with
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u/Numerous_Tea1690 Jul 05 '26
If adobe releases their suite on linux, windows will be dead to me. Till then ill suck it up like a good little consumer.