15-09-2025, 01:57 PM
(15-09-2025, 01:21 PM)king1 Wrote:(15-09-2025, 11:29 AM)Agent_24 Wrote: Linux is cheaper
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But here's the thing. Is desperately clinging to Microsoft's rapidly enshittifying offerings really a great option?
Windows 10 will eventually be obsolete for daily use, so what's an extra bit of support really worth aside from prolonging the inevitable?
So you will be forced to use Windows 11 eventually, and then somewhere down the line, Windows 12 or whatever comes after, and it will likely be even worse.
The only way to win at this game is to stop playing it and jump ship.
(15-09-2025, 01:42 PM)Praktica Wrote: Will linux run the program for my Canon film scanner? My photo manipulation program? The software for my digital cameras?
No idea since I don't know what software you use, and whether or not there is a Linux version, or an alternative.
Programs like darktable and RawTherapee spring to mind. I have personally never used them, but they seem popular.
Most scanners are supported in Linux, so as long as it's connected with USB or Firewire, it would probably work.
If it's some ancient thing that operates via SCSI or a Parallel port etc, maybe not, BUT is probably more likely to work in Linux than Windows 11, to be fair. Though I don't imagine you are using one of those.
If you really have specific Windows-based software or hardware that has no hope of switching to Linux, you could always do what I do - run these programs and devices in a legacy version of Windows (for me that's XP or 98) on a separate computer without internet access (for security), doing whatever work needs doing there, and for everything else, using Linux.
It's not perfect but it saves your sanity against using Microsoft's latest hot new garbage.