MissConstrueSometimes y’all, there is the perfect meme.
Edit: I've been informed that this is an excerpt from @hyratel 's Tumbler, which is here: https://www.tumblr.com/hyratel/780243434044784640/my-granddad-had-a-wand-of-iron-filigree-that-gave
Beige CatsWhoCode@MissConstrue That last one, holy shit! I had that with one of my old laptops, and I wanted to punch the guys at the store, I swear.
CavyherdThis right here is why I'm finally nibbling on the #Linux bullet. I've been a life-long Mac user, but even Apple has been jumping onto the enshittification train, & I hafta wonder how much longer the $60 one-&-done graphics app I've been using daily for fifteen years is going to become subscription-only, now that they've sold out to the big boys.
Yeah, I'm kinda in the same boat. I need to see if Scrivner and Affinity can be run in emulation mode.
@MissConstrue Apparently Scrivener works with Wine! @cavyherd
Orion Ussner kidder@CatsWhoCode @MissConstrue @cavyherd Even better! Scrivener runs on Lutris. :)
Search for "the Linux author" on YouTube: "install Linux with lutris." It's *easy*.
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...for Linux values of "easy" (speaking as someone who is still completely stuck at the comparison shopping for a distro stage....)
@cavyherd I'm told that Linux Mint is pretty easy. I started with Whonix, but that was actually a little advanced for a beginner 
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As it happens, this is one of the options in the suite I was given to play with. Do you recall any specifics about what in particular makes it easy?
@cavyherd one of the features is a Software manager that makes it simpler to install and manage software, and I think it also has a welcome panel. Some of the more advanced distros start with only the command line, and you install packages that way. @OrionKidder @MissConstrue
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Oh, excellent information. Thank you!