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  • Glitchy Pixelglitchypixel@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Oct 16, 2025, 9:38 PM

    In other news, I managed to convince my wife, my sister and brother -in-law to install #Linux in their machines due to the #windows 10 thing, instead of buying a computer (there's no money for that!).

    Got #elementaryOS in one and #linuxmint in the other two. There were kinda blown away that both OSes were essentially the same, just different desktops.

    I let them play around both in live USB before choosing.

    Installations were according to their previous sensibilities in their favorites OSes.

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  • Glitchy Pixelglitchypixel@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Oct 16, 2025, 9:42 PM

    Linux mint was because they were really excited to see something similar to #windowsxp . To be fair, Windows XP is a pretty solid OS all things considered, so getting to that was cool.

    Elementary was because of previous #macos X experience. I use elementary myself, as I'm a sponsor, but not because of mac os nostalgia, i know elementary folk don't tend to like the comparison, but hey its a point it appear from time to time.

    Another important thing actually was the use of previous #foss apps.

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  • Glitchy Pixelglitchypixel@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Oct 16, 2025, 9:47 PM

    Before even trying to do the full OSswitch, I was helping them replace proprietary apps with #foss apps.

    All of them are creative so this si one of the hardest folk to convert o IMO. Office is easy, they were using #LibreOffice #OnlyOffice way before everything else.

    And you'd expect #gimp here for drawing, but Its been always a hard sell. #krita on the other hand, was smooth for all fo them. I even bought them a course to learn.

    For vector based images, #inkscape was good enough.

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  • Glitchy Pixelglitchypixel@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Oct 16, 2025, 9:51 PM

    And finally, for editing, they don't need much, so it was either #kdenlive or #davinci_resolve for heavy work.

    The hardest sell has always been Photoshop. Creatives do have a high bar to clear here, and I believe that they need a lot of help when switching software. It can be done, but its tough.

    I think that the best way to help them is to switch apps first, then OS later. The apps are really the core of everything.

    The OS, if it feels familiar and clicks at the start, is good enough.

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