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7 Common Linux Myths You Should Stop Believing (www.howtogeek.com)
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[–] 87 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

One Common Linux Myth You Should Stop Believing: there's a FOSS alternative to every single proprietary software out there that can be used as a replacement in all and every use case.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I mean a lot of them are ok but it depends on what you are doing. Gimp can make memes but if you learned Adobe you are going to struggle.

    I think half of it is people doing want to learn something new and half of it is that the tools are behind

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Gimp can make memes

    Yeah but if you're a graphic designers and you've to share PSD files with others for your job then you're going to have a very hard time with Gimp.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That may be a reason to run a dual boot with Windows and your special gfx or cad software that you earn your livelihood from.

    But for the other 75% of the time when not working, you have Linux.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Till windows updates and over writes your Lilo or Grub boot. Might be less of thing with non-mbr setups not sure have not dual booted in a long ass time

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I have not had an issue in... 9 years? Though I use separate physical drives which might help. I wouldn't let that scare people away

    Edit: I'm also using rEFInd Boot Manager. I have about 5 operating systems that I can boot into (good way to try various Linux distros)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Same here. That's pretty much a myth. I also have a couple laptops that still have a small windows partition and never had any issues.

    That happened ages ago and gets blindly parroted to this day. I'm fairly convinced it's the same with the nVidia stories.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    With EFI you can even install windows after Linux and it will not mess with your systemctl boot. Windows will only put its bootloader in the EFI partition and systemctlboot will continue working. My girlfriend made this and I lost my jaw.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Under EFI, each bootloader has its own folder in the EFI partition. Each of those are registered with the firmware, and one of them is designated as the default. Grub is still there, but you'll have to mash (different key for every OEM) to get to the chooser menu.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    More generally - stop expecting every program to have an alternative. Sometimes there's just the one thing that does what you want.

    I lost functionality when I moved from Ubuntu to Windows 7 circa 2010, and I lost functionality when I moved from Windows 7 to Mint circa 2020.

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