I’ve been running EndeavourOS on my my SP4. It works great with the custom Surface kernel.

Don’t buy a 4 - it has heat problems and a shitty power circuit. As long as you get a 5 or newer, it should run great.

Thanks for sharing this. I’m very confident with Linux, but I hadn’t thought about this!

Your blog post was concise, too. I hate scrolling forever before finding the solution.

See, that’s a false dichotomy.

Modern corporate America demands expansion and growth. But expansion and growth do not need to be required for innovation.

That’s where Adobe is a victim of the vulture capitalists who’ve taken it over.

That gives me pause. And it’s not quite what I said.

When you try to integrate everything into the same application, you have to make compromises. Even if they have separate workflows, you’re not optimizing a tool for a specific use. You’re creating something general-purpose.

InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator are separate applications. That allows each to fully specialize in what it does best. And each one does a hell of a lot of things that would simply bog down the other two applications.

The applications need to integrate with each other. But no single application can be excellent at literally everything.

Edit: oh, Affinity is made by Canva? Yeah, I’m not touching that shit. No reason to trade one evil empire for another.

Unfortunately, until it fully integrates with a Photoshop equivalent and an Illustrator equivalent, it won’t be able to replace InDesign.

That’s why Adobe beat Quark. Their layout tool integrates so seamlessly with their raster and vector image editing tools.

Not if it’s for work, generally speaking.

Not for Adobe lol

I’m a creative. I’ve used InDesign since version 1.0. I’ve built my career with Adobe tools.

Adobe Creative Cloud peaked around ten years ago. Since then, it’s totally jumped the shark. I’m not even talking about the company, just the software and its features.

When I open InDesign, Photoshop, or Illustrator I’m trying to work. It’s software I’ve used for, in some cases, 25 years. My point is, I know it inside and out.

The past few years, every new “feature” gets in the way of my work. Adobe has been changing things that already worked very well, or has added extra steps to do something that used to be easy.

Even worse, Adobe has started to fill its software with notifications that can not be disabled. Invasive blue dots. Invasive blue buttons. Invasive blue overlays that stay visible on the screen even when the software is minimized. Rich tool tips that aren’t disabled by the option to disable rich tool tips.

Adobe has lost me as a devotee. It’s been taken over by venture capital. The company only cares about adoption of new features.

Now, I use it out habit. Because my workplace provides it. Because it’s what folks on my team are used to… but because they’ve come to the ecosystem so late, they only know a fraction of its capabilities.

If Adobe faces demise, I will mourn what if once was. But not what it has become.

Or are you just not sure how to spell it, so you inserted a placeholder?

Why did you censor the word “French?”

The easiest way to be sure might be to check it yourself.

If Linux is already installed on these machines, run Hardinfo2. It will tell you specifically how many lanes each slot has. It should also report back on lots of hardware capabilities.

If drives are installed, you can benchmark them yourself.

And nothing of value was lost.

Cautiously optimistic.

There’s always Creality.

I don’t know that they’re good. But so far I haven’t seen anything about them being evil? I’m open to being wrong, though.

TIL that my FDM printer should now be called FFF - because Stratasys owns the trademark of the term “FDM,” and has been known to abuse folks who try to use that term.

Coincidentally, Stratasys is also Israeli.