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Steve Adams said:
Like myself Capamac. I am windows full time, always have been. I dabbled in MacOS 3 different times, taking a loss and returning to windows. Now, I am using my little linux system more and more, but the lack off affinity keeps me on windows. But if it weren't for that I would be able to be linux 100 percent and be happy.

I had mint installed on my old Compaq business laptop back in 2009 for my son to watch baby einstien videos on when we were feeding him. He loved those videos. Mint back then was better than windows. It felt alot like xp at the time.
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I've been using Affinity Designer V2 through Lutris and wine - it isn't perfect but I haven't had any data loss yet ... I can't remember how I got it setup and working but I think there are some guides on line that do work.
 
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bcortens said:
I've been using Affinity Designer V2 through Lutris and wine - it isn't perfect but I haven't had any data loss yet ... I can't remember how I got it setup and working but I think there are some guides on line that do work.
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We have made the decision today just to stay on windows where all our software, files, etc are already. It is what it is at this point. I would love to be free of the corps but the software I use is all on windows and I don't want to change.
 
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Looks like Niri is having issues with Softmaker office suite
It's the 2024 non-subscription version, so I suspect its an issue how Niri is working with wayland, because I'm not getting this in Gnome, and Libra Office works well.
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So, I had someone else try Affinity Suite on Zorin and it worked fine. It's my way underpowered system can't run it. Not Zorin itself. That's good news if we ever do decide to move to Zorin full time.
 
Anyone running a distro on the intel X7/X9 ultra processors? how is the graphics performance with the b390 arc chipset? Getting full power out of it?
 
First Look at COSMIC Desktop Environment’s Frosted Glass Effect
System 76 released 1.3 of Cosmic,

It takes heavy influence to Apple's liquid Glass. Overall the control and implementation seems good, though some apps don't behave with the frostiness you expect it too. For instance the cosmic text editor is fine, but use the Gnome text editor, there's no transparency. Not the end of the world.

With sddm, I can switch between different DEs, so I'll try this out for a little while, though I'm still preferring Gnome

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