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Step 1. Don’t.
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.
Step 1. Don’t.
Copy the file and paste it into anywhere you can enter text… you get the path to the file as text.
I see one sponsor link, no other ads.
Choose your browser extensions, choose your browsing experience.
I do exactly this with a SteamDeck and USB-C docking station… with the added bonus that I can pull it out of the dock and take it with me to use as a hand-held when I travel.
I use traditional packages and Flatpaks… with “user apps” being preferred as Flatpak. This is potentially safer as the OS itself can’t be affected by installing or removing these applications, and also can mitigate dependency hell as apps that require different versions of the same dependency can coexist peacefully, with each one using its own bundled version of that dependency.
I also have a couple of appimages that aren’t available as a Flatpack, and I’ll simply find an alternative to anything that is only distributed as a Snap due to the performance issues, mount clutter, and proprietary nature of the Snap distribution back-end.
You were using a niche distro maintained by a single person and encountered problems? Shocking.
To be fair, I used Nobara myself for a bit until I got tired of suffering from the problems GE was creating himself. But regardless, experience on something like Nobara is not a fair way to evaluate Gnome. Try it on actual Fedora or something else mainstream that isn’t constantly removedering around with all kinds of removed and breaking stuff.
I really want to switch to Linux as my main gaming/production OS but need the Adobe suite
That’s not a hurdle… that’s a wall.
If your livelihood depends on running a Windows-only application, run it on a Windows computer.
You are, of course, free to also have a Linux computer for everything else. Use a KVM switch to toggle between them, or something like Synergy or Barrier to pass the mouse/keyboard/clipboard between both PCS. Share the storage between them over your network.
Can it be done? Yes.
Can it be done in a reliable way that you can depend on to always just work when you need it? No.
If you are completely dependent on Adobe products for your livelihood, you should not plan to work exclusively on Linux.
By the time enough longevity data has been collected to be really useful, obsolescence is becoming a factor. And even if the same model number is still being sold, the hardware inside may have changed and all of the data may not be directly relevant.
Sticking with a reputable product line and assuming that past performance is relevant doesn’t always help, either… I remember the Deskstar Deathstar drives fiasco, and got bit hard by it.
HDDs are for cheap, not for reliable. Anecdotal, but my personal failure rate with HDDs is around 98% while my failure rate with all forms of flash media (including SSDs) is around 2%.
With 1 TB SSDs being available for as little as $20 (not particularly fast ones but still far faster than HDDs), I don’t see a use-case for HDDs at all unless you need dozens of TBs of storage.
There have been cases of malware exploiting scripts and even images being displayed, whether directly hosted on the site or via compromised ads.
Do you have any antivirus recomendations for Linux.
Install all applications from your package manager.
Don’t run things as root.
Don’t visit sketchy websites.
Run an ad-blocker that isn’t owned by an advertising company.
Wow, “it never happened to me so it shouldn’t matter when it happens to you” is the biggest removed-take I’ve seen today.
Bye!
TL;DR: Windows works if you don‘t ask to be private, performant or secure.
Don’t forget to add “punctual”… for when you need to do something right now but you can’t because Microsoft decided to have your computer do something else instead.
I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows
Building a PC technically doesn’t include OS installation.
Build it, boot your OS of choice from a live USB to verify the hardware all works, then walk away.
I told my friends and family years ago that I will be happy to set them up with a working Linux installation and will support them as needed… but if they want to use Windows they are on their own.
Thinkpad X1 Carbons are absolutely flawless in Linux… I’ve used Gen 5s and now have a Gen 9.
We’ve had one Linux, yes… what about Second Linux?
X1 for ultra portability.
Otherwise, T14 or T15.