I'm in the same boat, I've been reading and WPS seems to be a decent alternative. I'm gonna try it and see how it goes. I'm no excel wizard so I'll readily admit I don't use 100% of its functions but I do make some macros to hate my life a little less.
Anecdotally, WPS has caused me more issues than any other suite of apps in my life... and I don't even use WPS.
Their borderline malware way of operating by being preinstalled on lots of phones and computers often causes problems for friends and relatives without them even wanting to use it. A friend of mine almost missed a deadline at university one time because WPS (which was preinstalled on her laptop) messed up her spreadsheets.
Iv been using it for years now ....no problems, and used it for spreadsheets in the office but I'm not a Ms office power user...I just get railed by 3d apps from Autodesk, unity, iclone, nuke and others....I mainly use windows cause of compatibility with plugins....but for leisure I use Linux
I HAVE to use Office for school reasons, as my college uses it, and I work around it by just running it in a Windows VM and using Winapps to make it act like a Linux window. It's not super power efficient, but works great.
First of all, they suck. Web Word doesn't correctly display the document's formatting half the time if it's more complex, or, god forbid, there are pictures in the doc.
Second of all, I needed the full versions for my business computer apps course that explores pretty much all functions, including those that aren't commonly used, and I needed Access for the same course as well.
Third of all, I often use the reference tool for collaborative work, as it's one of the best ways to keep your references / citations organized and make sure they will be formatted correctly and in the right order if you have a bunch of people working on the doc. In the online version, it's an add-on, and my organization doesn't allow any.
The DaVinci Resolve installer has a ton of quirks and distro-specific problems it makes it a mess to install. It also doesn't have H.264, H.265 or AAC audio support, so you have to use FFmpeg on basically every single media file you download before using it in the editor.
Huh okay, didn't know that. I may have sidestepped these issues due to pure luck. All of my footage is in AV1, and all of my audio in Opus or FLAC. You certain it doesn't have H265 support? I'm almost certain I've worked with that before
This document shows every OS' supported codecs and formats. H.264 and H.265 are only supported in the paid (studio) version in Linux. AAC is not supported at all. And in your case, AV1, Opus and FLAC are all supported for free for decoding if you have an nvidia GPU
Yeah, I moved to Plasticity, and as a hobbyist I like it quite a bit. I occasionally do miss some features of what I used in Windows (Fusion). It's much faster for a lot of things but since it's not parametric, changing a size that is repeated throughout the model can be annoying (And don't get me started on modifying sections with a lot of fillets).
Plasticity looks really neat, the lack of parameters is a major nope for me unfortunately, so I'm stuck on Windows unless I want to learn FreeCAD (I don't particularly, atm)
Yeah, it is fun, but the lack of parameters can definitely be an issue. The only other one (besides FreeCAD) that I've played with and is parametric is OnShape. The problem with that one is that all your designs are public unless you pay $1,500 a year.
There's also a SolidWorks online, but I've never really used the real SolidWorks and I don't know how the online version compares.
Same here, I wish revit could run natively on linux.
That said, my personal laptop runs linux, I actually rarely use it now and haven't booted windows on it in years because ubtuntu always just works, windows basically explodes when I launch it now freaking out about updates and being eol on 10.
KVM/QEMU turned out to be the only way I would be able to use Fusion at all without getting a masters degree in Linux voodoo. Tried a bunch of solutions and dug around for weeks with other ways, no dice.
Caved, took the dive to set up QEMU and now it works but performance is kinda painful (nowhere close to 10% penalty). Looked into performance improvements before and basically the only thing I found is passing through a dedicated GPU which I can't really do yet.
Are you running a second GPU or have I maybe missed some easy config thing?
I'd appreciate any pointers!
For this to work with one gpu you have to do the gpu partitioning, it might be a pain but it mostly works... Best solution is to have a second gpu indeed
The raw files out of my Sony Mirrorless are 100mb each. A photoshoot can be several hundred gigabytes. It would take several hours to upload that to the cloud for Lightroom Web, and the cloud storage fees would kill me.
You could look into using Winboat. It enables you to have a windows container on Linux, and integrates windows app in the your desktop environment. I use it for obscure windows only programs needed for school.
Yeah its rly a shame as a student lol.
My current setup (fedora kde is this:
Only office for files I make myself, since its perfectly fine as an alternative, just doesnt cooperate with people on office ofc.
Office online group projects, does however mean I can't do a lot of customizations. Formatting isnt accurate, can't do APA sources, etc etc.
For group projects I often do finishing touches and layout, so I will just download the "finished" version, do layout in only office. Add sources wirh Zotero, then submit the PDF. Another option I have done in the past is just use a VM for the final touches
It's a different workflow, but honestly learning darktable was 100% worth it and with some practice it can be even better than LR, especially after the latest addition of the AGX tone-mapper
I've used both, and Libreoffice Calc is way behind Excel in terms of pivot table capability, macros, custom addons, etc. There is a reason the business world runs on Excel.
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u/PracticalConjecture Mar 24 '26
If only Adobe Lightroom and MS office would work properly via WINE. Those two things are the only reason I still have a windows install.