Nobody stops you to be an artist. You can still have a job that is still alive today, AND be an artist in your own free time. As I mentioned, I was a very successful collage artist (NYTimes pick for best book cover, lots of commissions, lots of print sales etc). I decided to leave the surrealness of collage behind because I enjoyed children's illustrations more. Guess what, I don't make a dime with my illustrations. I've spent $15k on art supplies in 5 years and I made $1k back. But that doesn't stop me from painting nearly EVERY DAY. I share my work online, and whoever likes it, likes it. I don't expect sales anymore. Be it because it's not a popular look, or because of AI. It doesn't matter to me, I still paint daily.
eugenia
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Not an issue either, my copied works were fully copyrighted. I wanted them to be cc-by, but I never really relicenced them, too much work for 1500 works.
I used to be a very popular and successful collage artist (I'm now an illustrator, I like painting more), and my work has been copied by AI. However, I don't really care. In fact, I was musing once the idea of licensing everything under the CC-BY license. I don't mind if AI copies my stuff, because if eventually this democratizes art (as it has already), all the better. Yes, these AI belong to corporations, but if they're easy to access, or free to use, all the better. I want people to extend what I did, and remix it. I don't want to be remembered as me, as a singular artist, that somehow I emerged from the void. Because I didn't. EVERY artist is built on top of their predecessors, and all art is a remix. That's the truth that other artists don't wanna hear because it's all about their ego.
A lot. The UI blows. Which is why there is a commercial version of freecad that fixes exactly that. If there wasn't an issue with the UI, they wouldn't have a case for a commercial product. But they do, and they do rather well. There's even a youtube video about the two apps, by a professional cad person who tries many new cad apps. When he eventually made a video on freecad, he couldn't believe that people used it in that condition. In the comments, he was directed on Ondsel, and he tried it a few weeks later. He found it way more usable, even if it's just freecad underneath. And I agree with his assessment.
For PDFEditor, the best option is OnlyOffice, not libreoffice. You can download an appimage on their website to test that out.
Also, for CAD, consider giving QCAD a go (if it's 2D cad/cam you're after). If it's 3D cad, consider the free version of OndSel, a more sane version of Freecad.
In all fairness, you are not using just "a desktop". You are using a pretty specialized version of a desktop to run games, and so you're requiring stuff that a "normal desktop" user don't need: VRR, OC, weird mice, multiple monitors etc. Soon HDR too? Linux does perfectly the basics, but when you requiring such specialized stuff, don't complain that an OS run by volunteers that have to reverse engineer hardware to make it work at all, doesn't work to your liking. Keep it simple, and it will work. Get rid of the weird requirements. If that's the stuff you want to run, then use Windows, because that hardware was designed to run on Windows, not on Linux. Linux will take years to support them to your liking. And by then, you'll have moved on to newer hardware, where Linux won't be supporting them well yet either. So either you'll have to lower your specs, or you stay with the OS that they were designed for.
I use Linux since 1999 and I'm with you, I don't like niche distros. I like them to be well supported with many devs in them, and a structure around them. My days of tinkering died already in 2002 (I'm looking at you Gentoo and sia). Since then, I want things to work the way I expect them. That's why I now use Debian or Mint.
Most Chromebooks from the last 5 years have 8 GB of RAM and 32/64 GB internal drive. That's not enough to satisfy the kind of user who would buy a Thinkpad.
I have 4 Chromebooks that I converted to Linux, from the era before the aforementioned, with 4 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal space (and just 1366x768 res -- kdenlive and some cad apps don't fit in that res, not even some of the DE pref panels fit!). At 16 GB internal disk, only Debian fits in there properly. Mint and all ubuntu-based ones, or fedora are either out of space, or with only 1 gb left (Debian leaves 8 GB free). Also, it's near impossible to use a modern web browser to browse the web with 4-5 tabs at the same time at 4 GB of RAM -- you always hit the swap sooner than later. So it's literally bare bones experience.
The newer Chromebooks, with 8 GB RAM and 32/64 internal space are definitely better, but still nowhere near the "modern" specs required to run Linux properly (especially if you also want to do some video editing). In fact, look at the Cosmic DE. While it's new, and without any code fluff, it requires a minimum of 2.4 GB of RAM just to boot (which is more than gnome/kde).
So yeah, Chromebooks have nothing on Thinkpads. Not for the kind of users who buy thinkpads anyway.
Davinci Resolve is not a solution for at least 60% of the people who would move to Linux. The new version has trouble working on Debian-based systems (even with the various scripts and workarounds that exist), and it requires an nvidia card with lots of GBs of VRAM (while it does work on Windows with Intel/AMD without big problems). So I'd never suggest Resolve to someone moving to Linux unless they're going to use Fedora, and have a recent nvidia card. For everyone else, there's KDENLive and Shotcut. Which are way worse in the things they can do compared to Resolve (especially when it comes to professional color grading and audio plugins specifically for human speech), but that's the situation we're in.
Greek, English, and I understand a bit of French, since my husband is French. I lived for 9 months in Germany too, and I could understand a bit of that too, but that was 30 years ago and I've forgotten most of it.
Truth is, I don't really like verbal communication, in any language. I have trouble finding words (including my native one), it's as if my brain is not optimized for language. It gets worse when I'm sick (I have multiple autoimmune issues), it's as if language becomes a barrier. My husband becomes aggravated when I can't find the right words to communicate. I wish we had telepathy, communicating with feelings.
I never found a way to share a Public folder with VirtManager though, I need to move files between host and guest. How would you go about it?
If society benefits from the democratization of art/books/etc then it's not a loss, it's a win for everyone. There were many jobs in the past that were lost because technology made them obsolete. Being a commissioned artist is one of these professions. However, there IS still going to be a SMALL niche for human-made original artworks (not made on ipads). But that'd be a niche. And no one stopping anyone from doing art, be it a profession or not. That's the beauty of art. If you were to be a plumber, and robots took your job, you'd have trouble to do it as a hobby, since it would require a lot of sinks and pipes to play around, and no one would care. But with art, you can do it on the cheap, and people STILL like your stuff, EVEN if they won't buy it anymore.