Stop saying moving to Linux is easy...

I've been using Linux since 2001' ish.

Moving from Win 10 to Linux ISN'T EASY..

Its an 90%/10% problem.

Installing Linux is easy
Installing 90% of software, is fairly easy, once you have found the right software and replaced it.

10% of software has no direct equivalent, is not supported at all, or is very complex to move.

wine (or similar) does NOT WORK on many rearer/older packages.

Not having those 10% is a deal breaker for many.

@Extelec I have a windows partition for the 3-4 apps I really need.
Coreldraw - doesn't work under wine at all. There's a web browser in the installer that wine can't emulate. I need this for my laser stuff and I really don't get on with any other vector software.
Couple other drawing/design tools that also don't work.

Am tempted to see if I can spin up a windows 10 VM for them so I don't have to reboot.

@Jencen Old Corel is one of my goto's not just for laster cutting, Actually the laser version is higher than the one I design in.

@Extelec love how.... Simple and intuitive it is.

I can do in corel in 30 seconds and like... 5 clicks, what took me 5 minutes to do in Adobe (arrange holes around a center)

Am on 2024 as there was a humble bundle for the full perpetual licence for dirt cheap so grabbed it.

It "just works" with the epilog stuff.
And I can do a control panel layout, get everything where I want it and dump the DXF into a CAD program easier than fucking around and drawing it in there o.<

@Jencen @Extelec hey, have you tried Inkscape? its very good, foss and very user friendly for vector work. Cant speak about the cad tools, even tho there are alternatives too. gl!

@djinn506 @Jencen Yes, and no, I don't get on with it, 30 years of muscle memory to overcome.

Plus the multiple pages thing, which may or may not be sorted now.

@Extelec @Jencen Yeah to be fair there's still some pain spots, but these tools keep improving. You mean each page has its own layer tier?